Some 32 percent of 41,395 mostly aging bridges supervised by local municipalities in Japan need safety improvements, but these essential measures are still pending, government data recently showed.As these measures have not been implemented as of March due to shortages of skilled labor and funding, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism plans to provide financial and other support to encourage the municipalities to address the problem swiftly.The bridges were determined by authorities between fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2018 as requiring repair, reinforcement or demolition, …READ FULL ARTICLE
