Ministry of Environment of Japan started construction of two interim facilities near Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant to store radioactive soil collected in the process of decontamination works for …

Ministry of Transport of Japan held a meeting with Vietnamese counterpart in Tokyo on January 28. Deputy Director General of MLIT, Mr. Hiroshi Muto met with Deputy Minister of Transport of Vietnam, Mr…

Average monthly pay for construction workers in 2014 rose 1.4% from a year earlier to 376,273 yen, recording increase for consecutive two years, said Japanese ministry of labor on February 4. The leve…

Mitsui Fudosan Co. announced on January 26 that it will develop a 51-story office building in New York City as part of Hudson Yards, the largest real estate project in the US history. The company’s su…

Member companies of Japanese construction industry group received orders valued at 10.78 trillion yen in April-December in 2014, 7.6% up from the same period in the previous year, said Japan Federatio…

The 2015 budget of Tokyo’s bureau in charge of preparation for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games will likely to set aside 46.8 billion yen for development of the sports facility out of the total 6…

Japan’s western economic center, Hanshin region marked the 20th anniversary of the devastating earthquake on January 17 that took lives of 6,434 people in Kobe city and surrounding areas. The construc…

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan will add a new building to the National Training Center in Kita-ku, Tokyo, intending to develop a training camp for athletes aim…

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…