Details of a planned large-scaled shopping mall in Hachioji City, Tokyo was revealed. Construction of three structures with total floor area of 183,000m2 will be undertaken in early 2015 and completio…

Robots to inspect infrastructure to be sold in Japan will gradually increase in number, a private institute reported. The infrastructure ministry has started promotion of robotic technologies to be ap…

Demonstrators of new technologies for radioactive water treatment at Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant were selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. Eleven experiments in fou…

Kajima Corp. announced June 18 that its subsidiary received an order to build a new complex for the law school of Singapore Management University (SMU). The \12billion contract includes a lecture buil…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is accepting applications from local municipalities that intend to introduce new procedures in public procurement. The ministry will select five…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan revealed a draft of technical standards to evaluate the performance of environmentally-friendly urban development to be proposed to the…

A ministerial meeting on tourism promotion was held June 17 which decided the action plan to double the number of foreign tourists by 2020 when the Olympic Games will take place. Capacity expansion of…

Kajima Corp. announced that it developed environment-friendly concrete for steel pipes using blast furnace slag particles and lime-based admixtures as part of law materials to achieve 40% reduction of…

Tokyo Electric Power Co. or TEPCO started a procedure of an international tender on June 11 for a contractor of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) to rebuild existing thermal power statio…

Three rail operators of Japan’s metropolitan area broke ground June 10 to build a new terminal building of Shibuya Station in Tokyo, the largest of the three redevelopment projects planned by the grou…