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 ...

large wooden buildings are being created around the world. Japan's revolutionary "unburning wood" now contributes greatly to possibilities for wooden architecture. Construction of the Ring ...

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.

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

TOKYO -- Japanese general contractor Shimizu is stepping up efforts to increase orders from non-Japanese companies in the U.S., including through acquiring a controlling stake in a New York ...

It was a Françoise Hardy song that inspired designer Rei Kawakubo to set up Comme des Garçons in 1960s Japan. It was a Françoise Hardy song that inspired designer Rei Kawakubo to set up Comme des ...

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 ...