The anti-Kawabe-dam movements in the harm spheres stopped discussing the validity of the dam plan after accepting the compensation. But the anti-Kawabe-dam movements in the benefit spheres could not only appeal the invalidity of the dam plan in the public spheres, but also succeeded in organizing the farmers' movements and the fishermen's movements, which had the legal means to prevent the dam plan. And the anti-dam movements tried to form the alternative to the dam plan formed by the technocrats.