Japan Sports Council started on February 3 accepting expression of interest in design works for its headquarters and Nippon-Seinenkaikan building, which are to be moved and reconstructed due to constr…

President Tetsuro Tomita of East Japan Railway Company hold a press conference on February 4 at Headquarters in Tokyo, revealing a plan of new rail line connecting Tokyo station and Haneda Airport. Th…

The Fiscal 2013 supplementary budget was adopted on February 6 by the House of Councilors, including 5.5 trillion yen economic stimulus spending. 1.01 trillion yen of the total expenditure is appropri…

Yamashita Sekkei Inc. announced on January 31 that it won an international design competition for Suzhou University Hospital in Dushu Lake, China. The Japanese design firm was highly evaluated for its…

A 9.3ha land, a current University of Tohoku campus site in downtown Sendai City of Tohoku region, will be sold to AEON Mall Co. Ltd., a shopping mall developer at 22 billion yen which was selected th…

Central Nippon Expressway Company Ltd. will develop and operate a multi-purpose shopping mall in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture, which makes the first project ever　developed outside the expressways by any…

Chubu Electric Power Company Inc. started construction of West-Nagoya No.7 Thermal Plant near Nagoya City, replacing a 40-year old petroleum-fired plant with a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power g…

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. will redevelop Nihonbashi district in Tokyo, building 8 structures reaching up to 2 million m2 floor space in total, said President Masanobu Komoda at the press conference on …

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism revised the labor rates of public construction works two months ahead of schedule, which is usually revised annually in April. The average rates…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will promote business climate improvement in metropolitan cities such as Tokyo and Osaka to enhance urban competitiveness in business and daily …