NAGANOHARA, Japan – Giant gray pylons loom over this hot springs town — part of a $5 billion dam project that now may never be finished. Construction at the Yamba dam, five decades in the making, has ...
NAGANOHARA, Japan — The clatter of construction machinery still fills this forested mountain gorge, where legions of men in hard hats busily pour concrete, clear hillsides and erect a huge, unfinished ...
U.S. sailors and Japanese service members remembered American prisoners of war and Japanese laborers who died building the ...
KOBE -- A dam here topping a century in service has been doing so in style, releasing a lacelike white curtain of water down its masonry slope from 17 slide gates. A trail near the Sengari Dam ...
HAKODATE, Hokkaido -- With the beauty and grandeur of a Western castle wall, the Sasanagare Dam in this northern Japan city celebrated its 100th anniversary in December 2023. Still serving as Hakodate ...