Kurobe dam
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The Kurobe dam (黒部ダム?) or Kuroyon dam (黒四ダム) , Japan's largest dam[1], 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.
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- ^ Japan, page 3 of 21. Microsoft Encarta. Retrieved on 2006-10-02.
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