Okinawa Prefecture is implementing a project to support local construction companies which hope to expand their business abroad. Advises of experts as well as subsidies for administrative expenses are…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan will enhance supports to overseas large-scaled infrastructure projects requiring advanced construction technologies. A team of experts …

The noted Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban won this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, the Hyatt Foundation of the United States, a sponsor of the prize announced March 24. Ban makes the seventh Japan…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will announce an invitation for technology providers of infrastructure monitoring using sensors and information technology. Selected technologie…

Japan Federation of Construction Contractors announced its action plan for promotion of female craft workforce participation in construction industry. It aims to double the number of female craft work…

Japanese top geospatial surveying firm, Pasco Corp., a nuclear power plant service supplier, Atox Co. and French nuclear giant, Areva jointly developed radioactivity measurement technology using an un…

Toshiba Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Itochu Corp. announced on March 18 that they were awarded a contract to supply an intelligence transport system (ITS) to an expressway in Vietnam planned by Vietnam Exp…

A consortium of Hitachi, Ltd., Daikin Industries, Ltd. and Mizuho Bank, Ltd was awarded the smart community demonstration project in Manchester, UK by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Deve…

An extension of the terminal building at Tokyo International Airport, or Haneda Airport is completed. An operator, Tokyo International Air Terminal Corp. (TIAT) unveiled the building to the press on M…

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and a private-public collaborative body, Global Water Recycling and Reuse Solution Technology Research Association (GWSTA) have joi…