Japanese cultural affair’s agency launched a project team in a bid to reconstruct Kumamoto Castle that was severely damaged by the earthquake last month. The team will study a method of quake resistin…

Tokyo Metropolitan Government revealed on March 31 a plan to develop 23 buildings and 5,650 apartments at the 2020 Olympic Athletes’ Village after the games. The office scaled down the initial plan re…

Japanese real estate developer Mori Building Co. announced April 13 a plan to add a super high rise by 2022 in Toranomon area in Tokyo where the company is developing two with completion aimed in 2019…

The number of construction workers from overseas under the program that begun in April 2015 surpassed 400, said Japanese Infrastructure Ministry. It is estimated that the total number of the approved …

Kumamoto Prefecture and City office introduced on April 24 the partition system developed by Japanese renowned architect Shigeru Ban at the gymnasium of an elementary school in the city that has been …

More than ten days have passed since a series of powerful earthquakes hit Kumamoto Prefecture and adjacent regions in Japan’s southern island Kyusyu. As repair works of public transportation and infra…

Japanese Infrastructure ministry established the first action plan targeting at 2020 to promote strategic infrastructure export by Japanese private sector. Identifying potential projects that Japanese…

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japanese construction company Shimizu Corp. and its subsidiary Shimizu North America completed on March 23 installation of Zero En…

Japanese construction giant Taisei Corp. and Toyohashi University of Technology successfully conducted the driving test of an electric vehicle without battery. The small EV run on the 30 meter paved c…

Japan commemorates the fifth anniversary on March 11 of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan and left more than 18,000 people dead or missing. As the designated ten-year …