Kamikatsu, Japan, has ambitions to be a “zero waste” town. At its new recycling center, built largely from waste materials, locals sort their garbage into 45 categories.

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An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials ...

Traditional Japanese architecture’s reliance on wood as a building material developed largely in response to Japan’s humid environment—particularly the warm, wet summer months. Raised floors ...

Building on these innovations to further meet their customers’ evolving needs, these small- and medium-sized firms have made Japan the leading or sole provider of many of the materials that make ...

They've also spent between $300,000 and $400,000 building a new home in the traditional Japanese style. About 12 years ago, Byron and Kaori Nagy decided to leave their office jobs in Tokyo and ...

Unlike other construction materials, such as stone or concrete which contains sand, wood is a renewable resource, making it an attractive sustainable building material, Boitouzet said. Building more ...

Japan-based Sekisui House shows off its framing technology in a new concept home on Hawkeye Lane in the Talon Ridge neighborhood. (Woodside Homes) ...

Late fashion designer Kenzō Takada, of Kenzo, built this home in 1993, and it was remodeled by Kengo Kuma in 2018 to reflect a modern Japanese vision.

A group of Japanese firms, including Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., have signed a deal with the Defense Agency to develop new materials for building ships, part of a Japan-U.S ...