The 2015 budget of Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will likely to increase 0.2% from the previous year to 5.79 trillion yen. Public works budget is to remain unchanged…

Shortage of construction craft workers has seen a trend toward improvement, a survey of Infrastructure Ministry revealed. The shortage rate of eight major trades in the industry have declined for cons…

Toa Corp. announced on January 13 that it was awarded a 12 billion yen order of Lach Huyen Port development by the government of Vietnam. The port, located in Hai Phong city in Northern Vietnam, has b…

A group of business leaders including construction industry will visit four Middle Eastern countries from January 16 to 21 on a tour with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Six construction companies…

Tokyo Metropolitan Government awarded design works of two of the six planned 2020 Olympic Games sports facilities to Japanese firms; Kume Sekkei Co. and Pacific Consultants Co. A volleyball venue, Ari…

Vietnam’s three most important transport projects, the Noi Bai International Airport Terminal 2, Nhat Tan Bridge, the longest cable-stayed bridges in Southeast Asia and the connecting highway complete…

In response to an issue that Japanese utilities suspended contracting new purchase of solar power electricity under the Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) system due to lack of accepting capacity, Ministry of Econo…

Tokyo Station in Marunouchi district of Chiyoda-ku marked its 100 year anniversary on December 20, 2014. The East Japan Railway held the ceremony the day before at the station, where many guests from …

Tokyo Metropolitan Government unveiled on December 19 a model plan to develop the 2020 Olympic Village in Harumi area near the Tokyo Bay. The village will have 22 apartment buildings, a shopping cente…

Central Japan Railway Company or JR Tokai started work on December 17 to build Maglev railway stations in Tokyo and Nagoya. The company’s officials, local stakeholders and contractors attended the gro…