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As a nation of islands and narrow, steep valleys, dams play a vital role in Japanese society as they are constructed primarily to control floods, supply water and generate hydroelectric power. The tallest dam in Japan is the 186 m (610 ft) high Kurobe Dam. The largest dam by structural volume in the country is the Tokuyama Dam (pictured) with 13,700,000 m³ (17,900,000 cu yd) of rock-fill. Tokuyama also creates Japan's largest reservoir with a water volume of 660,000,000 m³ (540,000 acre⋅ft).

The dams are arranged by prefecture in the list below.

Chubu region

• Aichi
• Fukui
• Gifu
• Ishikawa
• Nagano
• Niigata
• Shizuoka
• Toyama
• Yamanashi

Chugoku region

• Hiroshima
• Okayama
• Shimane
• Tottori
• Yamaguchi

Kansai region

• Hyogo
• Kyoto
• Mie
• Nara
• Osaka
• Shiga
• Wakayama

Kanto region

• Chiba
• Gunma
• Ibaraki
• Kanagawa
• Saitama
• Tochigi
• Tokyo

Kyushu region

• Fukuoka
• Kagoshima
• Kumamoto
• Miyazaki
• Nagasaki
• Okinawa
• Oita
• Saga

Hokkaido region

• Hokkaido

Shikoku region

• Ehime
• Kagawa
• Kochi
• Tokushima

Tohoku region

• Akita
• Aomori
• Fukushima
• Iwate
• Miyagi
• Yamagata

See also

• List of power stations in Japan
• List of dams and reservoirs

References

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