By TAKAOKI YAMAMOTO/ Staff Writer
August 19, 2020 at 15:12 JST
Water from the Kanogawa dam in Ehime Prefecture flows into the Hijikawa river after heavy rains in July 2018. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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