As of March 31, 2020, steel was the most prevalent material for bridge superstructures in Japan, with steel bridges adding up to a length of approximately **** thousand kilometers. When accounted for the number, however, prestressed concrete bridges outnumbered them.
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MLIT (Japan). (February 4, 2022). Length of road bridges in Japan as of March 2020, by material used for superstructure (in kilometers) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 15, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228872/japan-bridge-length-by-material/
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