Japan is well known as one of the biggest construction industry in the world,

despite the fact that it is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire. This stratovolcanic
archipelago with 6,852 islands is susceptible to earthquake and tsunami, and also has
inadequate natural resources to support its growing economy and population. It seems
quite difficult to develop the industry especially construction industry, but in reality the
government gives some serious investments in this aspects, now Japan has a strong
economic infrastructure necessary to provide the needed energy, transportation,
residential, and many more.
By the year of 2013, the construction investment in Japan is expected to increase
by 9,1% from 44,9 Trillion Yen to 49 Trillion Yen according to RICE (Research Institute
of Construction and Economy) most recent forecast. This year, Japan focused on
disaster reduction programme for construction. The Great East Japan Earthquake on
March 11, 2011 (9.0 Richter) gave an unhealed wound in every Japaneses heart. Listed
around 16,000 died on that accident, and almost 3,000 are still missing up until now.
Around 17 Trillion Yen are at loss on account of the earthquake, hence an immediate
recovery will be expected in the mean future and the prevention act will be deployed.
Since the disaster, the construction companies have a high influence over the recovery
of infrastructure being the central role. Thus, in this year, the Japan construction
companies commenced work to overcome disasters that might happened anytime so
they can minimize the damages.
In 2012, Japanese government still in a recovery stage focused on sustainable
construction practices during the construction stage in Japan. They create some new
legal regulations and designation systems for construction industry. There are three
aspects : resources, construction works, and zero emission. Japan realize that
construction waste are usually illegally dumped, and it costs much for Japan to make a
new waste-processing facilities. In conclusion, recycling materials into new one and
making a sustainable construction practices will be the best solution for this years
construction investment.
As of 2011, Japanese government planned on investing at housing construction and
restoration. The number of housing construction starts from 2009 and has since
continued a recovery trends. However, this construction trends temporarily halted
because of the Great East Japan Earthquake occured on March 11, 2011.

Figure 9 shows previous year comparisons with regards to the number of housing
construction starts for Japan and for the three disaster-affected prefectures of Iwate,
Miyagi, and Fukushima since March 11. Japan. From the table above, we can conclude
that Japan immediately start the recovery of housing construction, especially on the
three most affected by disaster prefectures.
Japans economy starts to arise at the early year of 2010. However, the risk is still
considerable on the account of yen appreciation and falling stock values, that being said
the economy might be in the bad state again. Japan saw a major decrease in the number
of private residential in 2008, and only 775,000 private residentials were about to start
in 2009. So, sustainable urbanization is considered a necessary to maintain the
economys state. There are means to achieve a better state of economy such as urban
planning, effective land use, and sustainable urbanization which will increased the
overall value of the real estate in Japan.
Through the integration of the value chain, Japan expecting an increase in the
construction industry appeal. The government plays an important role to achieve this
goals, especially in the standardization of building certification application. Over the
year of 2009, shareholders in construction production will have to create new value
chains that will impact the productivity and efficiency to levels that can meet the needs
of a new era while taking advantage of contractual relationship that have been long
maintained thorugh mutual trust.
On 2008, Japan government tries to improve the productivity in construction
industry by increasing the investment on construction aspect. Also, Japan tries to
recover from the global economy recess in 2007 that reduces the number of
productivity especially in private residentials area. Thus, an increase in productivity in
the construction industry will bring the economy state of Japan to a stable one.
From the explanation above, we can conclude that Japan construction
investment and industry focused on residential (private housing), recovery, and
disaster management. On the other hand, Indonesia focused on road and bridge
development, water construction, and contribution to GDP. This happened because
Japan needs to improve their infrastructure to maintain huge urbanization that occurs
to them since 2007. Meanwhile, Indonesia needs to improve the infrastructure to
increase their economy state.