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Russia and Japan discuss bridge across 28 miles of sea
The Times ^
| September 6 2017
| Tom Parfitt
Posted on 09/06/2017 10:17:31 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Russia and Japan discuss bridge across 28 miles of sea
Tom Parfitt, Moscow September 6 2017, 5:00pm, The Times
Russia and Japan are in serious discussions to link the two countries via a bridge that could allow rail travel all the way from London to Tokyo.
The proposed 28-mile bridge would join Cape Crillon on the Russian island of Sakhalin to Cape Sōya at the northern tip of Japans Hokkaido island.
A shorter bridge or tunnel that has been mooted from Khabarovsk region on the Russian mainland to Sakhalin would eventually allow an uninterrupted rail journey of about 6,000 miles from western Europe to Hokkaido.
Speaking at an economic forum in Vladivostok, Igor Shuvalov, Russias deputy prime minister, said that modern technology made the Sakhalin-Hokkaido bridge a realistic proposal.
We are seriously proposing to Japanese partners to look at the construction of a mixed
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: hokkaido; japan; russia; sakhalin
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Russia pulled out of rail project to link Russia to N. Korea(and eventually to S. Korea) recently.
Business wise, N. Korea has all downsides and no upsides.
To: TigerLikesRooster; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:17:57 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hard to see this benefiting Japan.It's not as if Russia a warm and cuddly neighbor.
To: TigerLikesRooster
The Sushi to Borscht bridge?
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:21:26 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Waiting for Elon Musk to exploit this opportunity and get more govt money
To: TigerLikesRooster
A missle target for Kin-Jun-Unhinged ???
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:22:20 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Gay State Conservative
Probably still smarting from that ass-kicking Japan gave them back in 1905.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Aside from the political issues, Russia’s track gauge is still mostly 5 feet even. Japan’s mainline gauge is 3 feet 6 inches, too; only the Shinkansen and some regional lines are standard gauge (4 feet 8½ inches). Wouldn’t be any trains running from London to Tokyo even with something like this; and that whole “Brexit” thingy will probably preclude trains from London through that tunnel under the English Channel eventually, the way the EU is acting.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:27:40 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Gay State Conservative
They have been circling around and sizing up each other for a while. The issue was the development project for Siberia. Russia needs money to develop oil and gas in Siberia and Japan needs extra energy sources. Japanese investment could benefit both, except long-standing diplomatic stand-off over four islands Soviet Union took from Japan after WWII.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:28:33 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Petty good when you can get your enemy to pay half the cost of the bridge you’ll be rolling tanks over.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:29:24 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(One man's DACA, is 330 million other men's caca.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Building a big red target for the fat boy.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:30:02 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea has a different rail gage than other countries.............
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:34:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: HonkyTonkMan
It would be Japanese money mostly.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:34:16 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: Red Badger
Well, that could be worked out somehow, but the biggest problem is that NK railways are so broken down that they have to be rebuilt from scratch. Russia has to pay out of their pocket the money to fix them. Furthermore, N. Koreans are not reliable business partners, habitually breaking contracts and extorting foreign business at every turn.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:39:08 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
IOW, Not a good atmosphere for business growth.................
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:41:14 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The train gauges are all different, but a shinkansen (bullet train) extension to Yuzhno would make Japanese investment in Sakhalin/Karafuto more likely, and the Japanese need to counterbalance their Korea-and-China connections in the NE Asia area.
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09/06/2017 10:43:45 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: Gay State Conservative
Hard to see this benefiting Japan.It's not as if Russia a warm and cuddly neighbor. ?
I don't know - rail to all of Asia and Europe might be cheaper than by ship for Japanese goods.
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:48:08 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
To: Olog-hai
Russias track gauge is still mostly 5 feet even. Japans mainline gauge is 3 feet 6 inchesCould be a problem but I could see a shipping yard with cranes picking up shipping containers off of Russia's train cars and moving them onto Japan's train cars or vice versa in some shipping yard with Russia's train tracks running parallel to Japan's train tracks.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:55:34 AM PDT
by
ReformedBeckite
(1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
To: Olog-hai
Russias track gauge is still mostly 5 feet even. Japans mainline gauge is 3 feet 6 inchesCould be a problem but I could see a shipping yard with cranes picking up shipping containers off of Russia's train cars and moving them onto Japan's train cars or vice versa in some shipping yard with Russia's train tracks running parallel to Japan's train tracks.
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posted on
09/06/2017 10:55:54 AM PDT
by
ReformedBeckite
(1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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