East Japan Railway Co. revealed a plan to renovate the square in front of Marunouchi Gate of Tokyo Station and underground retailer shops by 2017. The renewed face of one of the largest terminal stati…

Kajima Corp. started operation of a vegetable factory jointly with two other companies in Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan, which makes the world’s largest plant factory using only LED as a light s…

Nikken Sekkei Research Institute (NSRI), a research body of Japan’s largest design firm has been awarded a feasibility study of Smart-City development in Lima, Peru through an international tender by …

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…