A construction work of 100,000m2 super high-rise started in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Fujita Corp. is in charge of design and construction, while Institute of New Architecture Inc. is commissioned to practice …

Construction order values received in fiscal 2013 that ended in March 2014 increased 10.1% from a year earlier to 75.8 trillion yen, according to Land ministry’s data released on May 12. Increase of p…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism published on April 25 the implementation policy of a long-term lease concession for the right to operate Sendai Airport in Miyagi Prefecture. Th…

Mori Building Co., a Japanese leading developer, is ramping up creation of three-dimensional city model for urban development. The company has developed a framework to build high-quality models and vi…

Leaders of Land Ministry completed sales trip abroad intensively during the long holidays starting in the end of April. Minister Akihiro Ota, Deputy Ministers and other officers visited emerging count…

West Nippon Expressway Company is embarking on feasibility study of road business in Indonesia. The company, its subsidiary and Indonesian state-owned road operator signed April 22 a memorandum of und…

Tomioka Silk Mill in Gunma Prefecture, 19th century factory buildings symbolizing Japan’s industrialization is likely to become one of the World Heritage after an official approval by UNESCO’s committ…

Japan’s housing starts in fiscal 2013 rose 10.6% to 987,254 from a year earlier showing the four year consecutive increase, the land ministry announced April 30. After a sharp drop due to the global f…

Japan’s trading house, Marubeni Corp. announced that its subsidiary completed construction of the nation’s largest solar power generation plant in Oita Prefecture. Located in the bay of Beppu, the pla…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will give financial support to private sectors conducting demonstration projects overseas of sewer system such as waste water treatment. As a pa…