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ROADS

Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 27, 2018
Kenya charges three Chinese railway workers with bribery amid ticket scam
Prosecutors in Kenya charged three Chinese men on Monday with trying to bribe detectives investigating fraud involving ticket sales on a $3.2 billion railway built by a Chinese company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2018
NTT Data, Gunma University to test self-driving ride services on public roads near Toyosu
A multiday test involving three self-driving vehicles on public roads will kick off Friday in Tokyo, the IT firm and school behind the experiment said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 26, 2018
Twenty-five years on, Alan Booth's voice is brought back to life
'This Great Stage of Fools' offers a collection of Alan Booth's uncollected journalism and writings between 1979 and his untimely death in 1993. Booth is be considered one of the greatest writers on Japan of his generation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2016
New road over Fukuoka sinkhole sagging
Nearly three weeks after a sinkhole swallowed an intersection in Fukuoka, a new road built over it is beginning to sag.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2016
Japan to raise speed limit to 120 kph on some expressways
The maximum possible speed limit on the country's major expressways will be raised from 100 kph to 120 kph, it was announced Thursday, marking the first increase since the 1963 opening of Japan's first highway.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 29, 2016
Criminal complaints filed against road-paving firms for corruption in earthquake disaster areas
The Fair Trade Commission filed criminal complaints Monday against 10 road paving companies on suspicion of rigging bids for projects to repair expressways damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
BUSINESS
Apr 11, 2014
State-backed entity for expediting infrastructure exports signed into law
The Diet on Friday enacted a law aimed at establishing a state-backed firm to help private-sector companies export infrastructure-building technologies related to roads, railways and other fields.
JAPAN
Dec 31, 2013
Japan to support road network expansion in Asia
The government is planning to help improve transport connectivity in South and Southeast Asia by renovating existing roads and building new ones, sources familiar with the matter said Monday.

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