After major seismic events, Japan updates its national building codes based on what ... use planning can reduce deaths and destruction New construction is both built to be more disaster-resistant ...

Osaka Kansai bills itself as the “People’s Living Lab – a laboratory for a future society” and challenges the world to ...

Eleven explosive ordnance disposal divers from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Sub Area Activity Okinawa unit set off ...

SAPPORO – A private zoo in Sapporo that is often introduced as “the most dangerous zoo in Japan” will close at the end of ...

An international federation of labor unions said on Tuesday that FIFA denied it access to the Azteca Stadium to inspect conditions of construction workers doing renovations ahead of the 2026 World Cup ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 1 ...

While the green transformation basic policy limited construction of new reactors within the plants where old reactors would be decommissioned, some nuclear plants lack space for building ...

TOKYO -- Container shipper Ocean Network Express (ONE) will spend $25 billion by fiscal 2030 to invest in growth, Nikkei has learned. It plans to build 42 new vessels by fiscal 2028 to raise its ...

On Feb. 4, Embassy of Japan in the Philippines First Secretary Suzuki Yuki attended the official handover of “The Project for Construction of School Building for Ilog Elementary School in Municipality ...

Two green bulldozers smoothly spread a mixture of pebble and cement at the construction site of a mountainous dam, followed by four vibratory rollers that compacted the fresh layer into place.