Japanese construction company Kumagai Gumi announced on June 28 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Taiwan Kumagai, has received an order to build a new large-scale complex with a total floor area of ov…

Overseas orders received by Japanese construction companies, which had declined due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, have made a V-shaped recovery. The Overseas Construction Association of Japa…

Tokyo-based developer Mitsubishi Estate is constructing the TOKYO TORCH mixed-use complex in front of Tokyo Station including a 390-meter-high skyscraper that will be the tallest building in Japan whe…

The Palau International Airport’s new terminal building, which was constructed and renovated by the Palau government with Japanese financial assistance, was completed. A ceremony was held on May 8 to …

634-meter-tall Tokyo Skytree, the nation capital’s freestanding radio tower equipped with terrestrial digital broadcasting built by Tobu Railway in Sumida-ku, will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Ma…

A committee of the Tokyo-based multi-sectoral research body Japan Project Industry Council, or JAPIC, proposed 12 national projects in the field of infrastructure at the symposium held in Tokyo on Mar…

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will begin full-scale introduction of smart water meters in 2022. It will install 30,000 smart meters by the end of fiscal 2022, and 130,000 by 2024. The aim is to in…

One of the largest bus terminals in Japan will be constructed in the underground space in front of Tokyo Station. A quasi-governmental developer Urban Renaissance Agency is participating in three rede…

Japanese construction company Shimizu Corporation has begun testing of electric kick scooters at civil engineering construction site in Fukuoka City. Five units have been used to reduce the workload o…

Mr. Mikio Yoshioka, Deputy Minister for Engineering Affairs of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan delivered a keynote speech at the symposium on February 23 hosted by Uni…