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…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has undertaken consideration of f airport expansion in Tokyo Metropolitan region, forming an advisory panel on November 1. It is intended to pre…

An opening ceremony of underwater subway system in the Bosporus Strait was held on October 29th in Istanbul, Turkey, connecting the two continents of Asia and Europe by rail for the first time. Partia…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism established the Japan-Russia Urban Environment Council on October 30th and held its first meeting. 82 companies and bodies including constructio…

Japan’s new housing starts in April-September in 2013 increased 12.7% from a year earlier to 499,032, the Land Ministry announced on October 31st. ahead of consumption tax increase in April 2014, dema…

Ministry of the Environment and a group led by Toda Corp. started floating offshore wind power generation on October 28th off the coast of Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture. A 100 meter-tall above sea level t…

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism will help the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam to establish evaluation standards of energy efficiency for urban areas, as a part of appro…