Air Water has completed a demonstration facility at the Shinagawa Clean Center in Tokyo for high-CO2-concentration waste combustion under NEDO's Green Innovation Fund. Air Water designed and installed liquid oxygen supply, CO2 capture and CO2 liquefaction equipment, targeting a CO2 capture rate of more than 90% from waste treatment facilities.
Shimizu Corporation has launched a demonstration project to test direct CO2 capture from seawater. The company plans to install a pilot plant in Tokyo Bay to evaluate CO2 recovery, continuous operation and the environmental suitability of treated seawater.
Keiyo Gas opened its first domestic grid-scale battery storage facility in Isesaki, Gunma, beginning full-scale operation on October 1, 2026. The 2 MW, 8 MWh high-voltage facility is operated by KG BESS LLC and was developed and constructed by Sun Village; Marubeni New Power handles market transactions as aggregator.
Tokyo Tatemono completed the T-LOGI Minami-Funabashi multi-tenant logistics facility in Narashino, Chiba, on September 30, 2026. The four-level ramp-type facility has 96,391.85 sqm of total floor area, 12 leasable units, cold-storage sections, truck berths, and rooftop solar generation for on-site consumption and surplus power supply.
Ashimori Industry, a Toyoda Gosei group company, will establish a new plant in Shimotsuke, Tochigi, to produce liners used for sewer-pipeline rehabilitation, including the Paltem L-UV method. The plant is scheduled to begin operations in the first half of 2028, supporting demand for infrastructure renewal in eastern and northern Japan.
Sumitomo Electric has completed and opened Research Building No. 6, PRISM Lab., at its Yokohama Works to strengthen R&D for optical communications products used in data centers. The facility includes advanced experimental and analytical equipment, precision-controlled laboratories, and supports research into higher-performance, smaller and lower-cost optical connectors and other connection components.
Shinko Electric Industries will acquire Japan Display's Mobara plant in Chiba and convert it into a new core facility for advanced semiconductor packaging, particularly flip-chip packages used in AI-related semiconductors. The company plans to begin operations in FY2028, while selling the plant's western area to partner FICT for its own manufacturing use; Shinko will develop additional equipment investment plans for the retained site.
Daiichikosho will progressively install Terra Charge's 50 kW EV fast chargers at approximately 60 of its The Park coin-operated parking facilities in Tokyo. The installations are scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2027, adding charging infrastructure across the company's parking network.
Ricoh will construct a new four-story building at its existing Atsugi site in Kanagawa to consolidate manufacturing functions and expand inkjet-head production and supply capacity. The facility will introduce automated lines, robots, AI and digital manufacturing technologies, with production capacity ultimately expandable to more than twice the current level.
SBS Holdings completed the Tomisato Logistics Center in Tomisato, Chiba, and held a completion ceremony on September 14, 2026. The four-story, multi-tenant facility has approximately 118,333.72 sqm of floor area on a 51,959.10 sqm site, 111 truck berths, and a self-consumption solar power system with about 5,000 panels, SBS Group's largest to date.
Takaoka Toko and e-Mobility Power jointly developed the SERA-400 ultra-fast charger, which began operation at the inbound Ebina Service Area on the Tomei Expressway on September 14, 2026. The site has three rapid chargers with eight outlets and 920 kW of total output; Takaoka Toko installed two units with four outlets and 520 kW of output, including one 400 kW SERA-400 unit.
Oishii Farm opened its Open Innovation Center in Hamura, Tokyo, on August 5, 2026, as a research and development facility dedicated to plant factories and next-generation agriculture. Asahi Kogyosha handled the full plant-cultivation facility construction, including interior work, environmental-control and air-conditioning systems, and nutrient-solution equipment.
JFE Engineering will conduct Japan's first demonstration of separating and recovering CO2 from actual waste-incineration flue gas using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The pilot will use the Clean Plaza Fujimi waste-treatment plant in Mitaka, Tokyo, and is scheduled to run through the end of FY2026, with recovery of several kilograms of CO2 per day.
GS Yuasa will develop a new manufacturing plant for stationary energy storage systems in Ibaraki Prefecture under its Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry-approved battery supply security plan. The facility is scheduled to begin supply in October 2028, with production spanning domestically made lithium-ion battery cells through control systems.
INPEX will establish a new research and development center in the Kashiwanoha Campus area of Kashiwa, Chiba, to accelerate innovation in energy technologies. The center will include office and research space, an experimental building, and outdoor facilities, with construction planned to start in May 2027 and operations scheduled for April 2029.
NYK Line group company Keihin Dock signed a memorandum of cooperation with Oceanic Constellations and Sagami Transport Warehouse to establish the Yokosuka Constellations Center in Taura, Yokosuka. The planned facility will conduct research and development, construction and repair, and operational services for marine unmanned vehicles.
Tamagawa Electronics, a subsidiary of Tamagawa Holdings, plans to build a second factory near its headquarters in Ayase, Kanagawa, to expand production capacity for telecommunications and electronic equipment serving social infrastructure demand. JFE Conform has been selected as the planned construction contractor, with handover scheduled for December 2027.
Dai Nippon Printing will open the FIO Lab at its Tsukuba Integrated Development Center in August 2026. The R&D facility will provide practical manufacturing-like environments for validating AI, robotics, equipment design, quality control and process-control technologies with corporate, university and research partners, supporting deployment across DNP manufacturing sites.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has begun construction of a steam methane reforming hydrogen production facility in the coastal area of Kawasaki, Kanagawa. Scheduled for completion in spring 2029, the plant will produce approximately 18 tonnes of high-purity hydrogen per day from city gas and supply it via a high-pressure hydrogen pipeline to the Kawasaki LH2 Terminal as part of a commercial liquefied-hydrogen supply-chain demonstration.
ADEKA will expand production equipment for photo-acid generators used in advanced semiconductor photoresists, including EUV lithography, by adding a manufacturing line inside an existing building at its Chiba plant in Sodegaura. The approximately ¥1 billion investment is scheduled to start construction in January 2027, finish in February 2028, and begin commercial operations in September 2028, doubling capacity from the current level.
PlantX completed the Shinonome Demonstration Base in Koto, Tokyo, and held its opening ceremony on July 8, 2026. The facility is equipped with the company's latest modular cultivation systems and automated equipment to demonstrate labor-saving and resource-efficient indoor farming technologies ahead of mass production.
Yukiguni Factory will open the Kinoko Mirai Lab on July 6, 2026, in Kawaguchi, Saitama. The new R&D hub will combine existing mushroom research with research into functional materials and new technologies, supporting collaboration with customers and universities and the creation of new businesses.
ADEKA has begun full-scale operations at its new Semiconductor Innovation Center within the ADEKA Technology Center Kuki in Saitama. The facility consolidates and expands semiconductor-materials research, with cleanrooms and evaluation equipment for advanced front-end and back-end semiconductor materials.
TOTO will build a new R&D building within its Chigasaki plant in Kanagawa to accelerate development of next-generation electrostatic chucks and AD components for semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The facility will expand prototype production lines and is scheduled to start construction in December 2026 and be completed in April 2028.
AGS is expanding floor space at its Saitama Center data center in Saitama, Japan. The disclosure reports media coverage of the expansion but does not state the investment amount, added capacity, contractor, or schedule.
Vital-Net began contract logistics operations at the Isehara Logistics Center in Isehara, Kanagawa, on August 3, 2026. The 7,706 sqm facility provides GMP/GDP-compliant storage and manufacturing-related logistics for pharmaceuticals, chemicals and precision equipment, with temperature control, backup power and enhanced security.
JGC Holdings completed the UT3 biopharmaceutical active pharmaceutical ingredient facility for Chugai Pharmaceutical Industry at its Utsunomiya plant in May 2026. The four-story facility supports clinical-trial manufacturing through initial commercial production and includes continuous-production capabilities, solar panels and other environmental features; it was handed over on May 14, 2026.
Mitsui Fudosan completed Mitsui Link Lab Toyocho 1 on July 31, 2026, a leasable wet-lab and office facility in Tokyo's Koto Ward with BSL2-capable specifications and hazardous-material storage. The company also began development of the planned Mitsui Link Lab Toyocho 2, expanding its Kanto-area life-science lab network to 10 sites including planned properties.
Ohishi Sangyo held a start-up ceremony for a new molding machine at its Ibaraki Plant on June 2, 2026. The equipment is intended to strengthen the company's supply system for pulp-mold products and support further business expansion.
Riken Vitamin will build the Material Nexus Lab, a new R&D facility for chemical-product additives at its Tokyo Plant in Itabashi, Tokyo. The facility will consolidate R&D functions from the Osaka Plant and subsidiary Kenseido, with completion planned for March 2028 and operations beginning in April 2028.
CRE has started construction of LogiSquare Asaka B, a large-scale logistics facility in Asaka, Saitama. The disclosure confirms a new logistics-capacity project, but the available source text does not provide the investment amount, facility scale, contractor, or completion schedule.
Tsumura will build a new QC building and hazardous-materials warehouse at its Ibaraki Plant in Ami, Ibaraki, to strengthen quality-testing capacity and business continuity for its kampo pharmaceutical products. Construction costs approximately ¥7 billion, designed and built by Kajima Corporation, with completion planned for mid-April 2028.
Sumitomo Forestry subsidiary Home Eco Logistics began operations at the Atsugi DC, its first self-operated logistics facility, on August 6, 2026. Located within Nippon GLP's MARQ Tomei Atsugi logistics complex, the center consolidates housing-materials logistics for the group and building-material manufacturers, serving 15 prefectures across the Kanto and central Japan regions.
Dentas' consolidated subsidiary Ionic will acquire a mass-production molding die for the renewed New KISSYOU ion toothbrush, strengthening product competitiveness and supporting sales expansion. The mold will be installed at Union Gosei's Nasushiobara plant in Tochigi, with operation scheduled to begin in November 2026.
MIRAIT ONE has installed a 20-foot water-cooled container data center at its Shinkiba building in Tokyo, equipped with Delta Electronics' Liquid-to-Air Coolant Distribution Unit (LTA CDU). The facility will validate high-performance GPU servers and IOWN-enabled next-generation AI infrastructure, with operations scheduled to begin from September 2026.
Nissin Foods will build the Tsukubamirai Factory in Ibaraki Prefecture as a dedicated Cup Noodles production facility. Construction is scheduled to begin in May 2027, with operations planned to start during fiscal 2029; the factory will incorporate heat-recovery and reuse equipment to reduce manufacturing CO2 emissions by more than 10%.
Tokyu Land and Saitama Fukko developed and completed the ReENE Solar Farm Kumagaya agrivoltaic power plant in Kumagaya, Saitama, with operations beginning on April 1, 2026. The facility consolidates 35 agricultural parcels covering approximately 4 hectares, grows wheat beneath elevated solar panels, and supplies electricity to Tokyu Land-owned offices and commercial facilities through an off-site PPA.
Kasumigaseki Capital has begun construction of LOGI FLAG TECH Miyoshi II, an automated frozen warehouse in Miyoshi, Saitama. The facility will include chilled and frozen storage areas, automated rack systems, natural-refrigerant equipment, and rooftop solar panels, with capacity for 21,846 pallets.
Seal Engineering, a subsidiary of listed Remix Point (3825), has developed a grid-scale battery storage facility in Ogano, Chichibu District, Saitama, which partner Fit Founder has sold to a customer company. The 2MW/8MWh facility is planned to begin operation in January 2027 and will support renewable energy integration and grid stability in Japan's energy transition.
The Higashi-Kanamachi 1-chome West District Urban Redevelopment Association is proceeding with Phase II of a major mixed-use redevelopment in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, per Katsushika Ward's own project page. Phase II construction is scheduled to start in FY2026 and complete in October 2030; Phase I (completed 2025) included a 40-story, 900-unit residential and commercial tower.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MonotaRO began operating a self-consumption solar power system at its Ibaraki Chuo Satellite Center in Ibaraki Prefecture, with 531.2kW capacity expected to generate about 534,000 kWh annually, covering roughly 25% of the facility's power consumption. The project supports the company's climate target of cutting CO2 emissions 50% by 2030 versus 2020 levels.
Daiwa Corporation completed its 'Kawasaki Office' facility in the Higashi-Ogishima area of Kawasaki, Kanagawa, converting its former 40-year-old logistics site into a BTS-type frozen/refrigerated facility for food logistics. The seven-story facility spans 33,602 sqm and is expected to begin operations on August 17, 2026, serving the greater Tokyo and eastern Japan region.
JR East Logistics opened the 'Ichikawa Distribution Center (JREL Ichikawa DC)', a four-temperature-zone warehouse with about 33,000 sqm of floor space in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, on June 30. The facility, which will begin phased operations from October, consolidates temperature-segregated logistics functions for JR East's ekinaka (in-station) store supply chain and features advanced material handling equipment including automated storage systems, picking robots, and rooftop solar power generation.
Green Energy Frontier began construction on April 1, 2026 of a new central power substation serving Narita International Airport, the first full renewal of the facility since the airport opened. The new substation will expand receiving capacity by about 1.5x to accommodate future demand from Narita's runway expansion and terminal reconstruction project, and will feature AI-based energy demand forecasting and space for the company's headquarters relocation; completion is planned for FY2028.
Mitsubishi Cable Industries has completed construction of a new 'Kumagaya No. 2 Plant' at its Kumagaya site in Saitama Prefecture to strengthen production of high-value-added seal products for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and pneumatic devices. The plant, built at a cost of JPY 4.35 billion, completed construction on March 31, 2026 and is scheduled to begin mass production in July 2026, complementing the No. 1 plant that began operations in 2023.
Resahl Kosan Co., Ltd., a Saitama-based maker of microbial soil-improvement products, marked the one-year anniversary of its new Kamikawa Plant (Saitama Prefecture), built in March 2025 with roughly double the floor space of its previous factory. Automation of the production line allowed output of its flagship 'CalsNC-R' soil conditioner to surge from about 20 bags/month pre-pandemic to an average of 20,000 bags/month (peak 26,400 bags), driven by demand spikes from gardening YouTube coverage.
Sanyu Seisakusho has started operations at a new facility called Integra Center, which serves as a hub for assembly operations and warehouse functions to build a more stable production system. The company's core business is precision assembly for medical analysis equipment, though the announcement itself does not explicitly name that product line; financial details were not disclosed.
Data Section began moving NVIDIA B300 GPU servers into what it calls Japan's first dedicated AI data center, in Inzai, Chiba - relocated from an originally planned Osaka site to cut latency for customers. Built inside a data-center facility in Inzai, it is being brought online in stages between May and July 2026. The company has committed about ¥50.9bn to acquire the B300 server fleet for the cluster.
Sagawa Express announced that its Kanto Hub Center in Koto, Tokyo would enter full operation on July 21, 2026. The hub has 162 truck berths and can sort 50,000 parcels per hour; the building accommodating it has a total floor area of 87,561.31 sqm. It consolidates freight and uses automated sorting to improve transport efficiency. Further hubs are planned in Amagasaki, Hyogo for February 2027 and Fukuoka for 2028.
Syla Holdings' subsidiary Syla Solar resolved to acquire land and a grid-connected battery storage facility in Oyama City, Tochigi Prefecture, with 2MW receiving capacity and 8MWh storage capacity. The purchase price is undisclosed but confirmed to be less than 30% of the company's consolidated net assets as of FY2026/5. Contract signing is planned for July 17, 2026, with settlement and delivery expected November 1, 2026.
Seed Co., a contact lens manufacturer, disclosed a partial change to the previously announced acquisition of fixed assets related to the second-phase construction of Building No. 4 at its Konosu Research Center. Specific revised terms were not detailed in the available text.
Instant noodle maker Acecook began construction of a new Kanto plant in Kawagoe, Saitama - a roughly ¥27bn investment covering land, building and equipment on a 78,166 sqm site. The plant will replace the company's existing Tokyo plant (also in Kawagoe) as the production base for mainstay brands including 'Super Cup' and 'Wakame Ramen', with an attached distribution center. Completion was targeted for December 2025 and production start for April 2026.
CSK has completed construction of a new factory for thick steel plate processing in Gunma Prefecture, consolidating its regional business bases into a single site. The facility emphasizes automation for improved safety, productivity, and quality control, with automated/unmanned forklifts planned for introduction this autumn.
NTT Data Group, through NTT Global Data Centers, launched development of the 'Tokyo TKY12' data center campus in the Inzai-Shiroi area of Chiba - a roughly 250MW, six-building campus that will rank among Japan's largest. First-phase service is planned for 2030 onward, with a high-efficiency, expandable design built for growing cloud and AI demand.
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