The Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism explained that Central Japan Railway Company expects the Shinagawa–Nagoya section of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen to cost about 11 trillion...
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Yasuyuki Kaneko reported that international standards for Level 4 automated driving systems had been agreed at the United Nations WP.29. In...
Regarding the Tsuruga–ShinOsaka section of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, a reporter asked whether the costeffectiveness of the Obama route, which had previously been lower than that of the less expensive...
A Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism panel published an interim summary that reorganizes the direction of urban transport policies in response to declining outing rates and...
Materials released on July 21, 2026. Rail and railway passenger volume increased year on year in both passenger numbers and passengerkilometers, while railway freight volume decreased in both freight...
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism published the May 2026 edition of the Construction Comprehensive Statistics on eStat, the government's portal for official statistics. The...
In FY2025, passenger numbers in domestic scheduled air transport rose from the previous fiscal year on both trunk and local routes. Cargo weight fell on trunk routes and overall, while rising on...
The preliminary number of foreigntrade cargo containers at six major ports in April 2026 was 1,226,091 TEU, up 0.9% from the same month of the previous year. This comprised 612,194 TEU of exports, up...
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism survey conducted from June 1 to 5, 2026, prices for 7 material groups and 13 items, including readymixed concrete, steel...
The shortage rate across eight occupations nationwide was 1.2% in May 2026, with the shortage widening by 0.6 percentage points from the previous month and 0.7 percentage points from the same month a...