Japan International Cooperation Agency has launched "JICA Clean City Initiative" to contribute to the realization of "clean cities" in developing countries. The initiative will mobilize various sets o…

The design of facilities for the 2025 Japan International Exposition (Osaka-Kansai Expo) is currently being carried out. Architect Sou Fujimoto, who has served as Expo Site Design Producer of the even…

Japanese developer Nomura Real Estate Development has announced a plan to construct a hybrid steel and wooden office building in Akasaka, Tokyo, tentatively called Tameike Project. The building will b…

Japanese engineering consulting firm Chodai has jointly developed a technology with a Hyogo Prefecture-based start-up Waterfront Real Estate to build a floating city on an artificial ground on the sea…

Japanese engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei will start an experiment of automated vehicles in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The experiment will take place at a large-scale redevelopment are…

Governor Hideaki Omura of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan announced on December 13th a plan to build two new runways to the east and west of the 3,500 meter existing runway at Central Japan Internat…

Japanese construction company Penta-Ocean Construction will rebuild its steel structure factory in Muroran City, Hokkaido. The building will be equipped with green hydrogen and other energy sources pr…

Japanese construction company Taisei Corporation announced on November 24 that a subsidiary of the company in Vietnam has begun construction of an office building, named tentatively as "TAISEI HANOI O…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan held the 3rd ASEAN-Japan Smart City Network High-Level Meeting in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture on October 18th. The meeting was atte…

A group of five Japanese organizations and companies including Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and construction company Takenaka Corporation announced that they have conducted an experiment…