Osaka Videos

A man-made island, 4 km long and 2.5 km wide, was proposed. Engineers needed to overcome the extremely high risks of earthquakes and typhoons (with storm surges of up to 3 meters). Construction started in 1987. The sea wall was finished in 1989 (made of rocks and 48,000 tetrahedral concrete blocks). Three mountains were excavated for 21 million cubic meters of landfill. 10,000 workers and 10 million work hours over 3 years, using 80 ships, were needed to complete the thirty-meter layer of earth over the sea floor and inside the sea wall. In 1990, a three-kilometer bridge was completed to connect the island to the mainland at Rinku-Town, at a cost of $1 billion. Completion of the artificial island increased the area of Osaka Prefecture just enough to move it past Kagawa Prefecture in size (leaving Kagawa as the smallest by area in Japan). The bidding and construction of the airport was a source of international trade friction during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone responded to American concerns, particularly from Senator Frank Murkowski, that bids would be rigged in Japanese companies' favor by providing special offices for prospective international contractors, which ultimately did little to facilitate the participation of foreign contractors in the bidding process. Later, foreign airlines complained that two-thirds of the departure hall counter space had been allocated to Japanese carriers, disproportionately to the actual carriage of passengers through the airport. The island had been predicted to gradually sink as the weight of the material used to construct the island would cause it to compress downwards. However, by this time, the island had sunk 8 meters, much more than predicted. The project then became the most expensive civil works project in modern history after 20 years of planning, 3 years of construction and several billion dollars of investment. However, much of what was learned went into the successful artificial islands in silt deposits for New Kitakyushu Airport, Kobe Airport, and Chubu International Airport. The lessons of Kansai Airport were also applied in the construction of Hong Kong International Airport. In 1991, the terminal construction commenced. To compensate for the sinking of the island, adjustable columns were designed to support the terminal building. These could be extended by inserting thick metal plates at their base. Government officials proposed reducing the length of the terminal in order to cut costs, but architect Renzo Piano insisted on keeping the terminal at its full planned length. The airport opened in 1994. On January 17, 1995, Japan was struck by the Kobe earthquake, whose epicenter was approximately 20 km away from KIX and killed 6,434 people on Japan's main island of Honsh. As a result of its adequate earthquake engineering, the airport, however, emerged unscathed, mostly due to the use of sliding joints in its construction. Even the glass in the windows stayed intact. Later, in 1998, the airport survived a typhoon with wind speeds of up to 200 km/h. On April 19, 2001, the airport was one of ten structures given the Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The total cost of Kansai Airport so far is $20 billion. This includes the land reclamation, 2 runways, and terminal and facilities. The additional costs were mostly borne initially due to the island sinking, expected due to the soft soils of Osaka Bay, but after construction the rate of sinking was considered so severe that the airport was widely criticized as a notorious structural engineering disaster. The rate of sinking has since fallen from 50 cm during 1994 to 9 cm in 2006.

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topics and sites covered on the DVD - Japan includes thousands of islands and mountains cover over 60 percent of the country. The largest island is Honshu where you should see Tokyo, Japans capital, and Kyoto, its cultural center. If you have more time, then see other sites on the next largest islands, Hokkaido and Kyushu. After you arrive by plane you can explore the country by airline, train, bus or even hiking or biking. Tokyo is Japan's largest city and the economic heart of Japan. ...

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On this special hour-long Embedded, Mos Def takes us on an all access seven-day tour of Japan while he performs his new album "The Ecstatic" to packed venues in Tokyo and Osaka.

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Short Lumiere video without sound featuring a train vindow view in Japan. ( Osaka airport-Osaka, fall 2008) [Sam Renseiw: Bonus lumiere video for patalab02.blogspot.com]

READ ME I was in Japan for the last two weeks of June in 2008 and I shot over 13 hours of footage while there. I went to Osaka, Nara, Tokyo, Kyoto Hiroshima, and Miyajima. Feel free to check out my other channel: http://youtube.com/jwibbo OR my website: http://JohnGibbonsComedy.com Also look at Elena's Web Comic: http://heard-comic.com

Here's a montage of the pics I took while in Japan. We sure did have alot of fun.

Un montage Video de mon dernier Voyage au Japon en Novembre/D cembre 2007.Au programme :- Le Shinkansen.- Tokyo : Asakusa Temple, Ueno, Harajuku, Shibuya. - Osaka : Amemura, Namba, Dotombori, Shinsaibashi, Pachinko, Hep 5, Mido-Suji Subway, Kaiyukan Aquarium.- Miyajima : Shinto Toori.- Nagoya : Nagoya Castle.- Kyoto : Yasaka Shrine, Saga, Kinkakuji Temple, Heian-Jingu Temple, Kiyomizu-Dera Temple.- Kobe : Sannomiya, Luminarie. - Nara : Parc, Todaiji Temple.