Japanese engineering consulting firm Chodai has jointly developed a technology with a Hyogo Prefecture-based start-up Waterfront Real Estate to build a floating city on an artificial ground on the sea…

Japanese engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei will start an experiment of automated vehicles in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The experiment will take place at a large-scale redevelopment are…

Governor Hideaki Omura of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan announced on December 13th a plan to build two new runways to the east and west of the 3,500 meter existing runway at Central Japan Internat…

Japanese construction company Penta-Ocean Construction will rebuild its steel structure factory in Muroran City, Hokkaido. The building will be equipped with green hydrogen and other energy sources pr…

Japanese construction company Taisei Corporation announced on November 24 that a subsidiary of the company in Vietnam has begun construction of an office building, named tentatively as "TAISEI HANOI O…

Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan held the 3rd ASEAN-Japan Smart City Network High-Level Meeting in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture on October 18th. The meeting was atte…

A group of five Japanese organizations and companies including Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and construction company Takenaka Corporation announced that they have conducted an experiment…

The Imperial Hotel, a historic high-end hotel in Tokyo revealed on October 27 the artistic impression of a new main building planned to replace the existing hotel in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. France-based Ja…

Japanese subway operator Tokyo Metro is developing an educational business for employees of overseas transport providers. The company held a three-day free online course in June to introduce its initi…

Mr. Tetsuo Saito has been appointed on October 4th as the new Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan in the new cabinet led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Minister Saito he…