Tokyo, Nov. 13.
Construction work on one of the largest reservoir dams in the world was formally started at Okutama in the suburbs of Tokyo yesterday in the presence of the Home Minister, Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, and Mayor Ichita Kobashi.
The project will require seven years zt an estimated cost of Y.60,- 000,000. Three villages will be submerged in the area that will be transformed into an artificial lake 40 kilometres in circumference cepable of storing: 18,400,000 cubic metres of water. The volume of water stored will be sufficient to supply 6,000,000 Tokyo inhabitants for 200 days during a maximum consumption period in the summer months.
More than 500 households of the three doomed villages are preparing for mass emigration to either the Hokkaido or Manchoukuo—Domei.
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