Dam construction plan in southwestern Japan

Dam construction plan in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 17, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area in the Kumamoto Prefecture village of Itsuki in southwestern Japan to be submerged under a controversial dam construction project. Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima said Nov. 19 that he gave the green light to the decades-old project on the Kawabe River, the main branch of the Kuma River that caused deadly flooding during torrential rain in July.

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                      Photo taken Nov. 17, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area in the Kumamoto Prefecture village of Itsuki in southwestern Japan to be submerged under a controversial dam construction project. Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima said Nov. 19 that he gave the green light to the decades-old project on the Kawabe River, the main branch of the Kuma River that caused deadly flooding during torrential rain in July.