35 leading construction companies consider Asian markets especially Southeast Asian countries as the most promising market, revealed the survey by the Overseas Construction Association of Japan. Besides Asian countries, North America, Latin America and Africa are the targeted markets. Many of the surveyed companies answered that they intend to maintain the stable level of overseas businesses for the mid-term strategy as the domestic market is likely to shrink.

In 2016, the overseas construction business by the Japanese companies would have about as much amount of businesses as in 2015 in spite of the slow-down of Chinese economy. Myanmar and Indonesia have a hopeful outlook among Southeast Asia according to the survey. (2016/01/19)