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…

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…