The famous Akamon Gate of the University of Tokyo in Bunkyo Ward has been closed since 2021. - Photo: The Yomiuri Shimbun
TOKYO: Generations of the nation’s top scholars and leaders have passed through it on their way to building an advanced society. Now the Akamon Gate, the distinctive red gate on the University of Tokyo’s campus in central Tokyo, itself is in danger of collapse.
Seismic experts have deemed that the gate, which dates back nearly 200 years, has weakened to the point where it could collapse in a major earthquake or typhoon-strength winds.
