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Tokuyama Village, Japan

Tokuyama Village, Japan

Tokuyama Village residents watching the demolition of a house in 1985. Though the construction on the dam began in 2000, villagers were displaced in the mid-1980s. A long legal battle followed. (Photo credit: Tazuko Masuyama, a Tokuyama resident who took many photographs of the area before it was inundated.)

About this community

Dam
Tokuyawa Dam
River
Ibi River
Established
1889
Inundated
1984-1987
Population
1,500