Various environmental technologies will be introduced at 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games showcasing Japanese advanced technologies both nationally and globally, said Ministry of Environment. Approaches to re…

Craft trainees from Vietnam are striving at a construction site in Ginza, Tokyo in a bid to acquire Japanese advanced engineering skills. Taisei Corp, a Design/Build contractor and subcontractors such…

Two of the major civil works for a new metro line in Singapore have been awarded to two Japanese contractors; Penta-Ocean Construction Co. and Nishimatsu Construction Co. The Land Transport Authority …

Shizuoka prefectural government announced July 24 that it has awarded a design work of an airport expansion to a consortium of design and consulting firms including award-winning architect Shigeru Ban…

A group of Japanese firms, IHI Corp. and Sato Kogyo Co. has been awarded a contract by a governmental housing developer of Singapore to build an automated parking garage. Japanese land ministry intend…

New Kansai International Airport Co., an operator of two airports serving Osaka region unveiled a plan to sell the management rights to a qualified private consortium. Projected price of 45 year conce…

Toyo Construction Co. announced July 22 that it was awarded two contracts of flood control works at Pasig and Marikina River in Manila, Philippines. The \9.3 billion river improvement projects, funded…

A redevelopment plan of Mitsui Bussan Building in central Tokyo was revealed. At the site where headquarters of Mitsui and Co., Japanese leading trade house and two other buildings stand, two super hi…

Kinki University announced on July 18 a plan toward 2020 to redevelop its campus in Higashi Osaka City that includes construction of a tower, a library and lecture buildings. Planned buildings have to…

The Japan Art Association announced July 16 the names of this year’s five winners of the Praemium Imperiale. Out of the five categories, a 66 year old American architect Steven Holl was named as the l…