It’s also one of Japan’s busiest sea lanes, with freighters, tankers, fishing vessels and passenger ships making their way along the strait 24/7. The Akashi Kaikyo bridge is the longest ...

KOBE--Akashi Kaikyo Ohashi is one of the world’s largest suspension bridges and now a tour takes visitors to the top of one of the 300-meter-high main towers that support the massive structure.

This is an ideal location for a suspension bridge. Suspension bridges, like the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, can span great distances and still leave room for passing ships and boats.

The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a key 12,831-foot bridge linking two islands in Japan. This suspension bridge ... your non-precise location, your device type or which content you are (or have been ...

Forthcoming: Morita, Manabu, Ryusuke Ihara, and Ryohei Nakamura. "An NEG approach to verifying the straw effect: Evidence from the Akashi-Kaikyo bridge in Japan," JCER economic journal.