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…

Land Ministry and five construction industry groups including Japan Federation of Construction Contractors agreed on April 24 that they will jointly develop an action plan by summer on promotion of fe…

Japan Federation of Construction Contractors announced the order value received by 48 of its member companies in 2013, which rose 20.8% from last year to 12.6 trillion yen. The value reached 10 trilli…

Land Ministry and five construction industry groups including Japan Federation of Construction Contractors agreed on April 24 that they will jointly develop an action plan by summer on promotion of fe…

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a contract on April 23 to establish a joint business in development of Thilawa Special Economic Zone in Myanmar with three bodies involved in the p…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism established a guideline for Real Estate Investment Funds (REITs) to own health care facilities such as homes for the elderly. The guideline incl…

Obayashi Corp. announced April 25 that it developed off-grid photovoltaic exterior integrated with glass curtain walls. The system introducing high-efficient and long-life silicon crystal cells suppli…