According to half-year accounting reports in fiscal 2013, 24 out of top 25 construction contractors increased the value of orders from a year earlier. 21 earn more sales and 20 posted profits. Yearly …

Obayashi Corp. announced on November 14 that it has been awarded a contract of building the Nam Ngiep 1 Hydropower Plant in Laos. Located in Nam Ngiep River, a tributary of Mekong River in North Lao, …

Export of infrastructure system such as urban railways is to be promoted furthermore targeting emerging countries in South East Asia, said Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Akih…

Japanese government will boost commercial use of floating offshore wind turbine, one of the important factors in ocean renewable energy. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will de…

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to provide 13 billion yen loan to India on the Tamil Nadu Investment Promotion Program (TNIPP). The contract was signed by two sides on October…

The Overseas Construction Association of Japan (OCAJI) announced the total amount of overseas construction orders received by its membership companies in April-September rose 33.5% from a year earlier…

A group of architects and experts on November 7 submitted a letter of request to Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Hakubun Shimomura and Tokyo’s Governor Naoki Inose on r…

Taisei Corp. announced on November 6 that it established a super strong concrete technology of FC 300 newton per square mile meter. As a world’s first application, pre-cast pillars made of FC300 concr…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will establish an information platform for the sewerage sector in fiscal 2014 that enables both public and private sectors to share information …

Two Japanese research institutes, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) and Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), and counterparts of Indonesia and Vietnam agreed on tech…