For decades, Kotoku Wamura was ridiculed for his insistence on constructing a massive floodgate to protect his village. As ...
A construction worker (upper right) walks on Fudai floodgate in northeastern Japan. The 51-foot-high gate, which was criticized as being a wasteful public works project in the 1970s, protected the ...
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