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 ...

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 paper investigates the straw effect in the framework of new economic geography (NEG). The straw effect specifically in Japan refers to the provisioning of transportation infrastructure such as ...