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…

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 Federation of Construction Contractors released a proposal on April 18 of securing and training construction craft workers, aiming to improve the income level, promote social insurance enrollmen…

The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) of Japan and US’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory concluded Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in research and …

Hitachi Ltd. announced on April 21 that it will install record-breaking 1200m/m elevators to a 530m multi-purpose sky scraper in Guangzhou, China. Equipped with the newly developed drive and control s…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will promote utilization of private-sector licenses of infrastructure inspectors. The expert panel of the minister’s advisory committee will sta…