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 ...

The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a key 12,831-foot bridge linking two islands in Japan. This suspension bridge, which took 10 years to be completed and involved more than 100 contractors, crosses the ...

A live camera placed near the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Hyogo Prefecture caught ... center for the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Mitaka, Tokyo. Sky watchers have a better chance ...

That's what Turkish officials had in mind when they decided to construct the world's longest suspension bridge, the 1915 ...

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.

Suspension bridges, like the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan, can span great distances and still leave room for passing ships and boats. The U.S. Coast Guard is thrilled with your selection!

Since 1998, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan had previously held the record with a span of 1,991 metres (6,532 ft). (ANSA).