The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games are to be postponed for about a year due to the corona virus pandemic. The delay is disappointing for the construction industry which contributed to the successf…

Osaka-based amusement park developer Senyo Kogyo broke ground to construct aerial gondola transportation system in Minato Mirai, Yokohama. It is designed by Yamashita Sekkei while offshore works are u…

Japanese construction company Taisei Corp. Announced on March 16 that it has won a contract to build a terminal building of Bandaranaike International Airport in Sri Lanka. The contract worth 62 billi…

Japanese Infrastructure Minister Kazuhiro Akaba held a press conference after the cabinet meeting on February 28 and announced the ministry’s measures against COVID-19 including the temporary suspensi…

East Japan Railway completed the news station in Minato-ku, Tokyo called “Takanawa Gateway Station”on JR Yamanote Line and Keihin Tohoku Line. The station building is made of 630,000 m3 domestic produ…

Japanese construction company Shimizu Corp. announced on February 18 that it will rebuild its Hokuriku branch in Kanazawa City, making it a new three-story 4,100m2 building with the highest level of e…

Japanese construction company KAJIMA CORPORATION announced on February 20 that it has introduced a quadruped walking robot "Spot" developed by US-based robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics at the civil …

Tokyo-based air mobility startup SkyDrive begun development of a heavy-duty cargo drone which can deliver goods and equipment to construction sites. The firm and construction company Obayashi jointly …

Decommissioning works are underway at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant as nearly nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake wrecked the area. The com…

Japanese civil engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei developed the data correction method to adjust climate change predictions for major cities in the world. The method can reduce bias by comparing …