Japanese tire maker Bridgestone will rebuild its headquarters in Kyobashi, Tokyo in 2016. The building designed by Nikken Sekkei will have Bridgestone Museum in the lower floors and offices in the upp…

Japanese Transport Ministry announced that it selected a group led by Tokyo-based railway company Tokyu Corp. and including two construction companies Maeda and Tokyu Construction as a preferred bidde…

Japan International Cooperation Agency completed the first phase of Kathmandu-Bhaktapur Road reconstruction works, a part of the disaster relief projects in Nepal which was devastated by a huge earthq…

Japanese leading engineering companies received orders of record-high 17.1 trillion yen in fiscal 2014 that ended in March 2015, says the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan. The value increa…

Japanese Infrastructure Ministry has launched model projects of providing special training course to overseas construction trainees before entering Japan. The number of technical trainees in construct…

The revised aviation law that regulates flying drones was approved on September 4 by the Japanese Diet. As the use of unmanned aerial vehicles has been on the rise in various fields such as photograph…

East Japan Railway Company announced on September 2 a detailed plan of a new complex under development in the south of Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. The 170-meter high rise, named JR MIRAINA Shinjuku Tow…

The bidding process for contractors to develop the New National Stadium, the planned main venue of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, begun on September 1, the Stadium operator Japan Sports Council announc…

Central Japan Railway selected a joint venture led by Taisei Corp. to construct a 7.7 km section of the total 25 km tunnel on the nation’s first commercial magnetic levitation railway which is slated …

Yokohama City announced on August 31 that it awarded a design, build, operate contract of a MICE complex to a group led by Takenaka Corp. at 37.8 billion yen. The group will construct the six-story co…