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 the longest suspension bridge in the world. When I first heard this, I assumed it meant that it was the longest from edge to edge or land to land. But wait, I said to ...

KOBE--Travelers with no fear of heights can enjoy breathtaking views while camping on the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge here during a special two-day tour--for a whopping 297,000 yen ($2,000). Despite the ...

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 ...

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.

Its awe-inspiring height places Turkey among the world's greatest engineers, surpassing Japan's previous record of 1,992 metres for its Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan. The bridge spans the ...