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…

Redevelopment of the area alongside the Tokyo Ring Road No.2 led by Tokyo Metropolitan Government has reached the goal line, opening a super high rise named Toranomon Hills on June 11. Mori Building C…

East Japan Railway Company announced that it will build a new station between Shinagawa and Tamachi on Yamanote Line, which runs in a circle in central Tokyo. President Tetsuro Tomita of the company r…

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism announced the data of licensed construction companies in fiscal 2013 that ended in March 2014. The total number slightly rose by 0.2% fr…