Kurobe dam

Kurobe dam

The nihongo|Kurobe Dam|黒部ダム or nihongo|Kuroyon Dam|黒四ダム, Japan's largest damcite web|url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566679_3/Japan.html|title=Japan, page 3 of 21|publisher=Microsoft Encarta|accessdate=2006-10-02] , is on the Kurobe River in Toyama Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It generates electricity for the Kansai Electric Power Company. It stands 186 m high and holds 200,000,000 cubic meters of water. Its construction, completed in 1963 at a cost of 51.3 billion yen, claimed the lives of nearly two hundred people.

A film, "Kurobe no Taiyō" (黒部の太陽; literally "The Sun of Kurobe"), starring Yujiro Ishihara (the late brother of Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara), recounts the drama of the project.

References

ee also

*Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
*Kurobe Senyō Railway


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