APA Hotel has built a new 180-room addition to the APA Hotel , which is currently operating in Shizuoka City, on the hotel site, and opened it as a two-building, 269-room hotel together with the existing 89-room building. Located a 5-minute walk from Shizuoka Station on the JR Tokaido Main Line and Tokaido Shinkansen. The…
Huis Ten Bosch to open “~Kids World~ Fantasy Forest “
Huis Ten Bosch will open a major new attraction, “~Kids’ World~ Fantasy Forest” on July 16. The symbol is the large “Tree of Beginning – Giant Tree” that catches the eye as soon as you enter. Inside the large tree, which looks like a secret base, are ball swings and net slopes, allowing visitors to…
Tokyo Summerland to Open Outdoor Pool Area “Adventure Lagoon” in July
Tokyo Summerland (600 Kamishirotsugu, Akiruno, Tokyo) will fully open its outdoor pool area, Adventure Lagoon, on July 1. There will be a total of five types of pools, including “Great Journey,” one of the largest flowing pools in Japan with a circumference of 650 meters, “DEKASLA,” an attraction in which visitors slide down from a…
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts plans to open “Rosewood Xian” in 2026
Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will open Rosewood Xian in 2026. It will feature a total of 180 guest rooms and suites, a casual bistro, a Chinese restaurant, a specialty restaurant, and a bar. Located in the eastern part of Xi’an’s Qujiang district, the hotel will be a luxury base near major art, shopping, and sightseeing…
Takumo Hydroelectric Power Plant Expansion Project
Electricity demand in Vietnam has increased rapidly with economic development, and the average annual growth rate of national electricity consumption from 1996 to 2002 was 14.6%. Electricity demand in the southern region of Vietnam was expected to increase at a rate of 13.8% annually by 2010. In particular, electricity demand in the northeastern southern region…
Atiak-Nimule road project
Uganda’s Amuru District is located approximately 350 km northwest of the capital Kampala and borders South Sudan. The region has lagged behind in the development of production, livelihood, and social infrastructure due to years of civil war. South Sudan is rich in mineral resources such as crude oil and fertile arable land, but its landlocked…
Bangkok Waterworks Project phase 8
The Bangkok Metropolitan Region, consisting of the Bangkok Special Municipality and five surrounding provinces, is the political and economic center of Thailand, and the Metropolitan Waterworks Corporation operated the water supply system in the Bangkok Special Municipality as well as two surrounding provinces. The maximum water demand in the region was 5.13 million cubic meters/day…
Cajamarca Water Project
In the rural cities of Cajamarca, located in the mountainous region of northern Peru, water and sewage facilities were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, but since then, there has been no significant investment in new construction or renewal of facilities. As a result, by the late 2000s, the facilities were aging and did not…
Haripur Power Plant Project
In Bangladesh, demand for electricity was increasing in line with robust economic growth, but power generation capacity was not keeping pace with this growth in demand. Therefore, the government of Bangladesh had set a national goal of “providing a stable supply of affordable electricity to all citizens by 2020,” and was working on capital investment….
50 Years of JICA Cooperation with Bangladesh and Future Prospects
Conference Title: 50 Years of JICA Bangladesh Cooperation and Future Prospects Date: Friday, June 10, 2022 Organized by: Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo Place: Tokyo Bongo Bondo Auditorium (Embassy of Bangladesh in Tokyo) Main Participants Congratulatory Greeting Fatima Yasmin (video, ERD Undersecretary) Mari Akiyama (Country Development Cooperation Division 2, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign…