Contracts made outside Japan by major construction players in 2014 rose 6.5% from a year earlier to 1.9 trillion yen, recording consecutive four year increase, says Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastru…

Japanese construction giant Kajima Corp. announced May 9 that it has developed a waterproof drone which can float on the water to survey underwater ecology and topography. The new UAV, “SWANS” can sho…

Urban developments in Tokyo have been increasingly seeing delays of construction start because of booming material and labor prices. In some cases, negotiations between owners and contractors over the…

Japanese Infrastructure Ministry and Vietnamese Construction Ministry agreed to cooperate in human resources development in construction. Deputy Minister Bui Pham Khanh of Vietnam and Parliamentary Se…

Kanto Regional Development Bureau of Japanese Land Ministry held inauguration ceremony of the nation’s largest deep sea port in Yokohama. The new MC-3 Container Terminal is now able to accept 160,000-…

Japanese private and academic sector is looking to cooperation in Vietnamese workforce development to increase the number of qualified construction workers who has experiences with Japanese engineerin…

Parliamentary Secretary Keisuke Suzuki of Japan’s Infrastructure Ministry visited a construction site in Shinagawa, Tokyo, where technical trainees from Vietnam work. The designated model site for acc…

Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. announced on April 9 that it completed the Neak Loeung Bridge across the Mekong River in Cambodia that was funded by Japanese official development assistance. …

A subsidiary of Japanese Nishimatsu Construction succeeded in consecutive 5 million hour free from accident at the factory construction site in Thailand. Applying Japanese safety management system usi…

As the new temporary scheme for giving work permit to foreign construction workers started this month, Japanese construction industry is preparing the environment to welcome workers. One of the ten gr…