Civil engineering

[News] MLIT Survey on Private Construction Projects: 4-Week, 8-Day-Off-Or-More System Reaches 40%

According to a survey by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, it has been revealed that the prop...
economy

[News] Long-term interest rates temporarily hit a 30-year high

Japan's long-term interest rates temporarily surged to 2.950%, hitting their highest level in approximately 30 years. Th...
Civil engineering

[News] Record-breaking heavy rain hits Fukui Prefecture; overflow occurs at the Yoshino River in Fukui City

Starting August 29, 2026, record-breaking heavy rain occurred in Fukui Prefecture, and overflow and inland flooding were...
economy

[News] U.S. Department of Commerce Considering New Regulations on Chinese AI Companies’ Remote Use of Overseas GPUs

New Cloud Regulation Framework Under Consideration by US Department of CommerceThe U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau ...
economy

[News] US Treasury Secretary Expresses Expectations for BOJ Governor’s Decision, Set to Meet on the 31st

US Treasury Secretary Bessent expressed expectations that Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will make appropriate moneta...
economy

[News] Government to Strengthen Integrated Support for Advanced Technologies, Accelerating Rare Earth Development

Following the 2026 amendment to the Foreign Exchange Act and the world's first successful deep-sea drilling, the Japanes...
economy

[News] Government and BOJ Intervened on a 15 Trillion-Yen Scale in July-August

From the end of July through August 2026, the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan conducted a record-breaking JPY ...
IT

[Explainer] OpenAI to End Technology Provision to Cursor in Mid-November

Citing its acquisition by SpaceX, OpenAI has proposed terminating its direct AI model supply agreement with the AI codin...
IT

[Analysis] China’s Moonshot AI in Revenue-Sharing Talks with Three Major U.S. Cloud Providers

Moonshot AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, is engaged in unprecedented negotiations with Microsoft, Amazon,...
Civil engineering

[News] MLIT Revises Shinkansen Construction Budget Requests

In its rough estimate requests for the fiscal 2027 budget, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (...