Dam construction plan in southwestern Japan

Dam construction plan in southwestern Japan

Photo taken Nov. 19, 2020, 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 the same day 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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