Association of four rail companies established to promote export of Japanese bullet train system to overseas held its first meeting in Tokyo on April 10. International High Speed Rail Association, IHR…

Japan’s land and infrastructure ministry decided anti-earthquake action plans for the Nankai Trough Earthquake and the Tokyo Metropolitan Inland Earthquake. The plans include quake resisting works of …

Four contracts of tunneling works for the Tokyo Outer Ring Road were awarded to consortia led by Japan’s four top builders, Kajima, Shimizu, Obayashi and Taisei. The expressway, one of the biggest pro…

The number of corporate bankruptcies in the construction industry in Japan fell 20.4 percent from a year earlier to 2,280 in April-March 2013, recording a five-year consecutive down, Tokyo Shoko Resea…

Obayashi Corp. revealed its concept of a future city in 2050 named “Mosaic City,” which is optimized spatially and functionally by making use of the large amount of digital information. The “Big Data”…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will start on April 9 inviting innovators of robotics technologies for infrastructure management. The on-site examination committee for the next…

Japanese multiple award winning architect Toyo Ito won 2014 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture sponsored by the Foundation and University of Virginia. The architect was highly evaluated…

Japan selected six areas as the national strategic special zones where massive deregulations will be permitted. The areas include metropolitan areas surrounding Tokyo and Osaka, Niigata City, Yabu Cit…

The Liberal Democratic Party, Japan’s administration party revealed on March 26 its proposal for exceptional measures to promote foreign labor participation in Japanese construction workforce. The sug…

East Nippon Expressway Co. Ltd. entered a public-private partnership project of road concession in India. The Japanese expressway operator acquired 9% share at 350 million yen of a special purpose veh…