Editing Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (section)

===Construction===
[[File:Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge h008.jpg|left|thumb|Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, under construction in December 1995]]
The original plan called for a mixed railway-road bridge, but when construction on the bridge began in April 1988, it was restricted to road only, with six lanes. Actual construction did not begin until May 1988 and involved more than 100 contractors.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Great Hanshin Earthquake]] in January 1995 did not do substantial damage to the bridge due to anti-seismic building methods.<ref name=Ogihara /> Construction was finished on time in September 1996.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last1=Kashima|first1=Satoshi|last2=Kitagawa|first2=Makoto|date=1997|title=The Longest Suspension Bridge|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24996048|journal=[[Scientific American]]|volume=277|issue=6|pages=88–92B|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican1297-88|jstor=24996048|bibcode=1997SciAm.277f..88K|issn=0036-8733|access-date=September 29, 2021|archive-date=September 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929003831/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24996048|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kyodo News">{{cite web|access-date=July 29, 2021|title=World's longest suspension bridge marks 20 years since opening|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2018/04/d161a56fc707-worlds-longest-suspension-bridge-marks-20-years-since-opening.html|website=Kyodo News+|archive-date=July 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729010737/https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2018/04/d161a56fc707-worlds-longest-suspension-bridge-marks-20-years-since-opening.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The bridge was opened for traffic on April 5, 1998, in a ceremony officiated by the [[Naruhito|then-Crown Prince Naruhito]] and his spouse [[Masako, Crown Princess of Japan|Crown Princess Masako]] of Japan along with Construction Minister Tsutomu Kawara.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|last=Cooper|first=James D.|title=World's Longest Suspension Bridge Opens in Japan|url=https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/julyaugust-1998/worlds-longest-suspension-bridge-opens-japan|work=United States Department of Transportation – Federal Highway Administration|access-date=February 14, 2012|archive-date=January 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101152145/http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/98julaug/worlds.cfm|url-status=live}}</ref> The bridge was the last Japanese megaprojects of the 20th century.<ref name="longest">{{cite news |title=World's longest suspension bridge |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19980406-1.2.24.4?qt=kaikyo,%20bridge&q=kaikyo%20bridge |work=The Straits Times |agency=AFP |date=April 6, 1998}}</ref>