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  • 2019-10-24 (xsd:date)
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  • This photo shows a road constructed after a landslide destroyed a Japanese highway in July 2018 (en)
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  • A photo of a winding road has been shared repeatedly in multiple Facebook and Twitter posts alongside a claim that it was built within 24 hours of Typhoon Hagibis hitting Japan in October 2019. The claim is false: the photo shows a temporary road constructed in two months after a Japanese highway was damaged by a landslide in July 2018. The photo was published in this Facebook post on October 14, 2019. It has been shared 50 times. Below is the screenshot of the misleading post: Screenshot of the misleading post The post’s Indonesian-language caption translates to English as: An emergency bridge was built within 24 hours as the highway was blocked by a landslide. This incident happened after a typhoon hit Japan. Constructing a bridge only in 24 hours, amazing. Source: Karma Zopa. The English text superimposed on the image states: Emergency road constructed in Japan within 24 hours so as to maintain flow of traffic after the main one was being covered by landslide. How many hours will this be fixed in your own country? Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan on October 12, 2019, triggering landslides and floods. At least 74 people were killed and dozens remain missing, according to this AFP report. The image was also published in Facebook posts here , here and here , as well as in Twitter here and here with a similar claim. The same image with a claim that the road was constructed within 24 hours but not related to recent typhoon also appeared in Facebook posts in English here , here and here , where it has been shared more than 6,000 times. It is also shared alongside a similar claim in Arabic here and here , as well as in Khmer here and here . The claim is false. The image shows a temporary road constructed in the two months after a landslide damaged a highway in Fukui city, Japan, in July 2018. A reverse image search for the image in the misleading post on Yandex followed by subsequent keyword search found this image of the temporary road published in a tweet on March 22, 2019. The caption of the post says that the road was a national highway in Fukui city. 国道350号、福井市の直角迂回路。見てきました。 pic.twitter.com/ZuHgzgT5tF — カタヤマ (@kata104) March 22, 2019 Below is the screenshot comparison between the image in the misleading post (L) and the image posted on Twitter (R): Screenshot comparison between the image in the misleading post (L) and the image posted on Twitter (R) The same Twitter user also posted a video of cars travelling along the road here . 走ってみました。 pic.twitter.com/iz1yGUOUxs — カタヤマ (@kata104) March 22, 2019 Fukui city is the capital of Fukui prefecture. National Route 305 in Ikura-cho, Fukui city, was damaged by a landslide which was triggered by heavy rain hitting west Japan in July 2018. A temporary road was subsequently constructed, according to a report by Japanese media Fukui Shimbun on October 27, 2018, here . Fukui Shimbun also published this report on November 1, 2018, stating that the construction of the temporary road had been completed and was open to the public. Below is a screenshot of a photo of the road in the report: Screenshot of the road photo in the Fukui Shimbun report The construction of the temporary road was completed within two months from August 27, 2018, to October 31, 2018, according to this local government document, praising the local officials in charge of the construction. The new section of National Route 305 is located here on Google Maps, but Google Street View only shows the area as it was in 2017. The map is embedded below: (en)
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