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…

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…