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 ...

Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

Kurobe Dam in Toyama Prefecture is consistently ranked as one of Japan’s best sightseeing spots to check out if you’re on a budget, and it’s not hard to see why. Not only is it surrounded by beautiful ...

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 ...

SHIRAKAWA, Gifu -- A dam that looks like a regal Western castle in a scenic canyon in this central Japan town has continued to generate power for nearly a century. The truss bridge above Kamiaso Dam ...

NAGANOHARA, JapanNAGANOHARA, 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 ...

TOKYO — When Japan's Democratic Party promised to halt construction of Yamba Dam in its 2009 election manifesto, the pledge was intended to demonstrate how the party would transform Japanese politics.

The link between widespread industrial activity and global warming has long been on the world’s list of worries, but now there’s concern that a single construction project–the Three Gorges Dam in ...