Why Japan Builds Like Nowhere Else

Japan takes engineering to the next level. 0:00 Intro 0:54 The £100BN Tokyo Resilience Project 37:46 The Tokyo Skytree 48:35 The Hyper-Kamiokande 56:24 The World’s Biggest Indoor Rainfall Simulator 1:09:00 The Chūō Shinkansen 1:21:11 Japan’s Mega Seawalls 1:29:30 Outro We're raising awareness of...

90 min - Engineering & Megastructures - The B1M

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