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 …

Japanese major construction consulting firms are looking for more global opportunities by mergers and acquisition of international and domestic firms. Nippon Koei announced March 3 that it will obtain…

Japanese Land Ministry will introduce new buildings codes in April that enable mid to high rise timber buildings using Cross Laminated Timber. Developers will be able to construct CLT buildings lower …

Central Japan Railway, or JR Tokai launched on January 27 construction of Shinagawa Terminal Station for Japan’s first maglev bullet train linking Tokyo and Nagoya with completion expected in 2027. Th…

Japanese contractor Penta Ocean Construction announced February 3 that it has been awarded a 57.6 billion yen contract by Health Ministry of Singapore to build a 19-story hospital with 148,000 m2 tota…