Six governors from the Kanto region -- (from L to R) Tomikazu Fukuda of Tochigi Prefecture, Masaru Hashimoto of Ibaraki Prefecture, Kensaku Morita of Chiba Prefecture, Shintaro Ishihara of Tokyo, Masaaki Osawa of Gunma Prefecture and Kiyoshi Ueda of Saitama Prefecture -- are briefed by a land ministry official on the Yamba Dam project in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 19, 2009, as they visit the planned construction site. (Kyodo)