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The Immense Cost of Japanese Dams and Dam-Related Landslides and Earthquakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Masano Atsuko
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It had been three months since the Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku Earthquake struck northern Honshu on 14 June 2008, triggering a huge landslide above Aratozawa Dam. The area hit by a landslide has been further carved by snow and rain, and trees and other vegetation are in disarray. The site looks like the day after a wretched barber had just given it a bad haircut. For the earth, this must be an embarrassing appearance.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , e2
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Footnotes

Chinese text available: http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/ch/3467-Confronting-the-cost-of-dams-2

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1 The newly elected Democratic Party government announced a freeze on dam construction and canceled the Yamba dam in September, 2009. This article provides some of the compelling reasons for that decision.