J-Holdings's consolidated subsidiary J-Crest will acquire a grid-scale battery energy storage facility (Shokawa ESS) located in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture from Recharge Power as part of a capital and business partnership to expand the grid-scale battery storage business. The 2MW/8MWh facility is planned to be completed and grid-connected in December 2026, with operational commencement and market participation expected in early 2027.
Mitsubishi Electric will establish MEHITS US, a new subsidiary in Mason, Ohio, in August 2026 to manufacture cooling systems for data centers. The company will invest approximately $30 million to refurbish and convert an existing automotive manufacturing facility, targeting production startup in April 2027 with planned annual capacity of approximately 6,000 units by 2030.
Nippon Chikudenchi has completed construction of NC Toyooka Tajio Energy Storage Station, a 1,988 kW / 8,146 kWh grid-scale battery facility in Hyogo Prefecture. The facility began operation on 24 July 2026 and supports renewable energy integration, grid balancing, and disaster resilience through participation in wholesale electricity markets and capacity markets.
Shibusawa Warehouse has commenced operations of its new "Matsudo Warehouse No. 4" facility in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture on July 30, 2026. The leased facility, with a contracted floor area of 8,843 sqm, supports the company's light-asset strategy for efficient capital deployment and rapid response to customer needs in small-lot, multi-variety logistics.
Shikoku Kasei Industries will build a new advanced semiconductor materials manufacturing plant in Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture to meet growing demand for high-performance semiconductors driven by AI and 5G adoption. The facility will introduce state-of-the-art production equipment and establish high-level quality management systems, with operations planned to begin July 2027 and 20 new employees.
Nippon Parking Development and subsidiary Smart Green Energy completed Japan's first woody biomass power plant built on a former ski resort site in Katashina village, Gunma Prefecture. The facility, commissioned July 20, 2026, will supply electricity generated from local wood waste primarily to municipal public facilities, demonstrating a regional energy circulation and decarbonization model combining renewable energy with rural regeneration.
Mazda has opened its first Indonesian complete vehicle assembly factory in Citeureup, Bogor Regency, West Java, through local partner PT Eurokars Motor Indonesia (EMI) and PT Eurokars Produksi Pratama (EPP) on July 28, 2026. Mazda invested over IDR 400 billion to build the roughly 65,000 sqm facility, which will produce the CX-30 model for the Indonesian and regional markets.
Gion GLP Sagamihara, a special-purpose joint venture between Sagamihara-based logistics firm Gion Co., Ltd. and developer Nippon GLP, will construct a new RC/steel five-story warehouse with total floor area of approximately 135,388 sqm on a 54,070 sqm site in Sagamihara City as part of an industrial land redevelopment project (the Asamizodai-Shin'izono district). Construction is scheduled to start in January 2027 and complete by end of March 2029, with design by Toa Corporation; the general contractor has not yet been determined.
Daiichi Kogyo Seiyaku decided on capital investment to strengthen its supply system for low-dielectric resin materials used in high-end servers, amid surging demand driven by data center and high-speed communication infrastructure expansion. The investment, targeting domestic and overseas production sites, totals approximately ¥10 billion and is planned to begin operation from fiscal 2027 onward.
Hokkaido University's Semiconductor Frontier Education and Research Organization (IFERS) held the opening ceremony for its 'Semiconductor Prototyping Lab' on the university campus in Sapporo on July 29, 2026, offering hands-on training in semiconductor manufacturing processes with an ISO Class 5/7 cleanroom. The lab is supported by the Cabinet Office's regional university and industry creation grant program together with Hokkaido, Sapporo and Chitose, with full fit-out expected by the end of fiscal 2027.
Logistics & transport servicesMultiple (Japan)Completed
E-commerce support firm Itsumo has launched two new fulfillment centers dedicated to TikTok Shop: one in Noda, Chiba and one in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, both operational since April 2026. Combined the two raised-floor warehouses provide capacity for about 350,000 shipments per month, designed to handle the sudden order surges typical of live-commerce sales, with plans to expand further fulfillment sites nationwide.
Nomura Real Estate began a demonstration project for agrivoltaic (farm-based) solar power generation on approximately 3,515 sqm of farmland in Kawajima, Saitama Prefecture, using sun-tracking solar panels installed above crops. The trial, part of the company's new Infrastructure & Industry business unit launched in FY2026, aims to diversify renewable energy procurement and will run for about three years starting July 2026, generating roughly 80MWh/year.
Shibahara Kogyo will begin full operations in August 2026 at a new factory in Iwata, Shizuoka that consolidates welding processes previously split across multiple sites into a single location, aiming to improve efficiency and share technical skills among staff.
Hexa Energy Service, a Japan-based unit of I Squared Capital, has signed a 20-year long-term offtake agreement with Tokyo Gas for a grid-scale battery storage facility it is developing in Fukushima Prefecture. Hexa will develop, own and maintain the facility while Tokyo Gas will operate it, trading in electricity markets; commercial operation is planned for FY2029.
Pacific Consultants will begin a demonstration project installing floating photovoltaic systems - including perovskite, thin-film silicon and conventional silicon modules - on a multipurpose dam reservoir in Nagano Prefecture. The project, selected under Japan's Ministry of the Environment FY2026 renewable energy demonstration program, aims to verify technical feasibility for design, construction and maintenance of floating solar on deep, water-level-fluctuating dam reservoirs, with potential future rollout to other multipurpose dams and unused water surfaces such as ports.
Resonac Holdings will make an additional investment of approximately ¥15 billion at its Resonac HD Singapore subsidiary to expand hard disk media production capacity, driven by growing AI and cloud-driven demand for datacenter storage. Combined with a prior May 2026 expansion announcement, total capacity will rise 44% from about 160 million disks to about 230 million disks per year, with production lines to be brought online progressively from 2029. Resonac, a key merchant supplier of hard disk media to HDD makers, has also agreed on a price revision with customers to reflect the investment.
TOWING, a Nagoya University-affiliated agritech startup, completed a demonstration plant in Numata City, Gunma Prefecture that converts livestock manure into high-functionality biochar 'Soratan' using large-scale carbonization equipment developed with Noritake's industrial furnace heating technology. The plant, TOWING's largest and third domestic site, reuses a disused municipal gymnasium and began operation in July 2026, with planned annual biomass input of 10,000 tons, one of Japan's largest capacities for biochar carbonization equipment.
Semiconductors & electronicsFukushimaUnder construction
Nunome Denki held a groundbreaking (jichinsai) ceremony for a new factory to produce semiconductor manufacturing equipment in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture. The project adds to Japan's semiconductor equipment supply chain capacity in the Tohoku region.
LaSalle Investment Management, through Hakata Island City special purpose company, will start construction on August 3, 2026 of 'LogiPort Fukuoka Island City', a 4-story multi-tenant logistics facility with 99,559.71 sqm total floor area in Fukuoka City's Higashi Ward. The facility will feature temperature-controlled cold storage (5C to -25C) on floors 1-2 and dry warehouse space on floors 3-4, targeting completion by end of October 2028, with Taisei Corporation as the construction contractor.
Nippon Chikudenchi Co., Ltd. signed a disaster-response agreement with Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, under which a grid-connected battery storage station it is installing in the city will supply emergency power during disasters. The facility has a planned rated capacity of about 8MWh (8,146kWh), enough to supply roughly 470 households for 72 hours in an emergency; the company plans to bring 70 such storage sites online nationwide by 2028.
Tadano's wholly owned subsidiary Tadano Utility began operations in July at its newly built Yahata Plant in Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture, a facility for assembling and painting large self-propelled aerial work platforms (18m+ working height). Combined with the existing Chikuma and Omi plants, the new plant expands Tadano Utility's production capacity by 1.5x, supporting the company's mid-term strategy to grow overseas sales of large aerial work platforms.
Israeli chipmaker Tower Semiconductor will build an additional 300mm manufacturing facility next to its Fab 7 in Uozu, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, as "Track Two" of a broader expansion. Total investment is approximately $3 billion, of which the Government of Japan is providing about $1 billion in grants (net investment ~$2 billion). The new fab targets a multi-fold increase in Silicon Photonics and Silicon Germanium capacity and is expected to be accretive from 2029. The expansion is run through TPSCo (Tower Panasonic Semiconductor Company), 51% owned by Tower.
JA Zen-Noh, Zenraku (National Federation of Dairy Co-operative Associations), and two regional milk marketing federations agreed to jointly establish Rakunou Nyugyo Co., Ltd. and build a new dairy products plant in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. The new company, capitalized at JPY 1.92 billion, will produce butter, skim milk powder, and cream, with production slated to start in December 2028.
Getworks, in collaboration with Tohoku Electric Power, has completed construction of a new container-type data center called 'Miyagi AI Data Center' on idle land owned by Tohoku Electric Power in Shichigahama, Miyagi Prefecture. The facility will offer housing services for next-generation high-performance GPU servers starting July 31, 2026, supporting generative AI infrastructure demand across the Tohoku region.
Fogel, an equity-method affiliate of Japan's Hoshizaki Corporation, held an opening ceremony on July 23, 2026 for its new commercial refrigerator factory in Villa Canales, Guatemala. The new plant, built since October 2023, has 1.8x the annual capacity of the existing facility (400,000 units/year at full operation) and will support expanded sales across Latin America; Hoshizaki plans to raise its stake in Fogel to 51% to make it a consolidated subsidiary.
JX Advanced Metals will invest about JPY 4 billion to expand processing capacity for sputtering targets used in advanced logic, HBM, and 3D-NAND chips at its South Korean subsidiary JX Korea. The investment introduces new processing equipment accumulated across the group's Japanese sites, roughly doubling the site's processing capacity versus FY2025 levels, with phased startup expected from FY2027 to meet booming AI data center-driven semiconductor demand.
Logistics & transport servicesMultiple (Japan)Under construction¥600B
Mitsui Fudosan announced plans to expand beyond logistics facilities into data centers and automated logistics, positioning itself as an 'industrial developer.' The company plans total investment of about ¥600bn across data center projects nationwide, with roughly ¥300bn already invested; new development is underway in the Kansai-Hokusetsu and Kanto-Tama areas, part of 7 facilities in progress nationwide, targeting completion of the full investment plan by FY2035.
Orthopedic medical device maker Nakashima Health Force will relocate its head office and factory to a new site in the Iwata district of Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture, investing approximately JPY 10 billion. The new facility will triple floor space versus the current plant, adding labor-saving/automation equipment and metal 3D printers, plus solar power, backup generators and water tanks for disaster resilience.
Auto parts maker Shinko Kogyo has constructed a new base called the 'Innovation Center' at its existing Soja City (Okayama Prefecture) site, combining head office functions and a factory. The facility aims to prototype and mass-produce higher value-added drivetrain components, boosting profitability; it also includes an on-site nursery.
Accrete signed agreements with Getworks and Dell Technologies to acquire a new container-type data center in Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture, equipped with Dell water-cooled NVIDIA B300 GPU servers and quantum-resistant encryption from its subsidiary Forward Edge-AI Japan. The facility leverages secured power and cold climate/well water cooling advantages, with completion and handover expected September 30, 2026 and leasing to begin October 1, 2026.