A case study of flood control schemes for the Kakehashi river and their socio-cultural consequences
SUMMARY This paper is concerned with a twenty-five year campaign against the relocation of the Komatsu-Tenmangu shrine as a result of the enlargement of the Kakehashi river. The Komatsu-Tenmangu shrine is an important cultural property of Japan, and was constructed by Toshitsune Maeda, the third dynasty of the Kaga clan in 1657. It is suggested that the primary reason why it took so long to settle this issue is a flaw in our social system for managing public works. It is concluded that preservation of cultural property is not always contrary to land development, and that the proposed procedures or something like them must be put into practice for the real expansion of our culture.
Floating island as ecological flood alleviation
ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with a floating island as ecological flood alleviation. Contrary to the flood alleviation scheme proposed by Ministry of Construction, Japan in 1971, Komatsu-Tenmangu-shrine was preserved in the oval-shaped bank by the persevering resistance by citizens, scholars, head and staffs of the shrine, and many others, and the riparian work was finally completed on 19 November 2017. The final countermeasure has succeeded to harmonize the flood alleviation of Kakehashi-basin with the preservation of Komatsu-Tenmangu-shrine. The riparian work has been welcomed by the majority of citizens in Komatsu-city as well as people concerned with such as staffs in the Ministry of Construction, Ishikawa prefecture, and Komatsu-city. On the basis of Inyogogyo principle, it is realized that Komatsu-Tenmangu-shrine lies at an immovable point in the straight line connecting Komatsu-castle and Kanazawa-castle. In the final countermeasure, the primary vision due to Ministry of Construction, which is the satisfactory riparian work for the flood alleviation scheme (100-year design flood) has been integrated into the existing carriers, viz. historical Komatsu-Tenmangu-shrine, fauna and flora, and immovable shrine position based on Inyogogyo principle. It is suggested that in the original planning and design of the Komatsu-Tenmangu-shrine in seventeenth century there had been a tiny germination of the modern concept of sustainable development.
Metallurgical Process Engineering
The "material of choice" - steel.- Uprising of China's steel industry.- Process manufacturing industry and process engineering.- Engineering science in steel manufacturing process.- Analysis and integration of metallurgical manufacturing process.- Multi-dimensional mass flow control for metallurgical manufacturing process.- Time factors in steel manufacturing process.-Operating dynamics in the production process of steel plant.- Structure and mode of steel plant.- Steel plant and environment.