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Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (聖徳記念絵画館, Seitoku Kinen Kaigakan) is a gallery commemorating the "imperial virtues" of Japan's Meiji Emperor, installed on his funeral site in the Gaien or outer precinct of Meiji Shrine in Tōkyō. The gallery is one of the earliest museum buildings in Japan and itself an Important Cultural Property.
When it opened it was the longest and tallest glass bottomed bridge in the world. The bridge, opened to the public on August 20, 2016, measures 430 metres (1,410 ft) in total length and 6 metres (20 ft) in width, and is suspended about 300 metres (980 ft) above the ground. [ 1 ]
Long-drop hanging is the method of carrying out judicial capital punishment on civilians in Japan, as in the cases of Norio Nagayama, [67] Mamoru Takuma, [68] and Tsutomu Miyazaki. [69] In 2018 Shoko Asahara and several of his cult members were hanged for committing the 1995 sarin gas attack.
It was built from 1997 to 2004, and it is the largest rigid-frame bridge in Japan and the third largest in the world. [1] Images of the bridge have been widely circulated on the internet, owing to its seemingly steep nature when photographed from a distance with a telephoto lens , but in actuality, it has a less pronounced, 6.1% gradient in the ...
Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, 24 May 1999 (out of date) The World's Greatest Bridges, Archive.org copy of The Bridge over the Strait of Messina website (out of date and other errors) List of longest spans, Pub Quiz Help (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)
Newspaper photo taken shortly after the arrest of Sada Abe (center) in Tokyo in 1936. Frantisek Kotzwara (1730–1791), Czech violinist composer, died during erotic asphyxiation; Albert Dekker (1905–1968), American actor, found dead in his bathroom with a noose around his neck, looped around the shower curtain rod.
Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 Ford Island is seen in this aerial view during the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941 in Hawaii. The photo was taken from a Japanese plane.
Pages in category "Suicides by hanging in Japan" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.