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S. Korea top court upholds wartime labor rulings against Japan firms

Plaintiffs and others celebrate in Seoul on Dec. 28, 2023, after South Korea's Supreme Court upheld decisions by lower courts ordering Japanese companies Hitachi Zosen Corp. and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay the plaintiffs damages over wartime labor.

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Hitachi Zosen unveils world's biggest shield tunneling machine

OSAKA, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. shows to the press on Dec. 25, 2012, what it claims to be the world's largest shield tunneling machine at its Sakai plant in Osaka Prefecture. The 110-meter-long machine with a diameter of 17.45 meters and weighing some 7,000 tons will be used to drill a 2,800-meter tunnel in Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington to replace an aging elevated highway, the company said.

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - An experimental remote-controlled breakwater rises from the sea floor in a demonstration at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 17, 2011. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. aims to introduce the new device to coastal zones where conventional breakwaters have not been installed, due to marine traffic or scenery preservation, to counter high tides or tsunami.

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 17, 2011, shows an experimental remote-controlled breakwater unveiled to the press at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. said the device is designed to rise from the sea floor to counter high tides or tsunami.

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Seawall operated by tsunami

SAKAI, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. shows to reporters in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 9, 2011, a seawater barrier that automatically rises from the ground or seabed using the buoyant force of tidal waves. The Japanese heavy machinery and engineering firm said it has started to accept orders for the seawater barrier it has developed.

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Hitachi Zosen not to withdraw from shipbuilding market: President

OSAKA, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. President Minoru Furukawa speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Nov. 13. He ruled out the possibility of his company withdrawing from the shipbuilding market, referring to the company's ongoing talks with the JFE Group over their shipbuilding joint venture.

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Osaka prosecutors raid Ebara Corp., others over bid-rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Public prosecutors raid Hitachi Zosen Corp. in Osaka on April 18 on suspicion of involvement in bid rigging related to a sewage plant project in Hannan, Osaka Prefecture.

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Furukawa appointed Hitachi Zosen president

OSAKA, Japan - Minoru Furukawa, a senior managing director of heavy machinery and engineering company Hitachi Zosen Corp., speaks at a press conference after being named to replace Takenao Shigefuji as president.

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Hitachi Zosen, NKK to merge shipbuilding units

TOKYO, Japan - NKK Corp. President Yoichi Shimogaichi and Hitachi Zosen Corp. President Iso Minami shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. The two firms agreed to merge their shipbuilding operations into a fifty-fifty joint venture to be established Oct. 1, 2002 in a bid to survive in the increasingly competitive global market.

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High-speed, anti-spy patrol boat

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A high-speed, anti-spy patrol boat built by Hitachi Zosen Corp. for the Japan Coast Guard is launched in a ceremony at Hitachi's Kanagawa shipyard in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Nov. 9. The 220-ton, 50-meter-long vessel with a top speed of more than 40 knots has been christened Tsurugi. It will be deployed in February at the Niigata Coast Guard office.

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Furukawa appointed Hitachi Zosen president

OSAKA, Japan - Minoru Furukawa, a senior managing director of heavy machinery and engineering company Hitachi Zosen Corp., speaks at a press conference after being named to replace Takenao Shigefuji as president. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi Zosen not to withdraw from shipbuilding market: Presiden

OSAKA, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. President Minoru Furukawa speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Nov. 13. He ruled out the possibility of his company withdrawing from the shipbuilding market, referring to the company's ongoing talks with the JFE Group over their shipbuilding joint venture. (Kyodo)

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World's 1st bioethanol plant from food, paper waste built in Kyoto

Hitachi Zosen Corp., Kumamoto University and the Kyoto city office unveil in Kyoto, western Japan, on Jan. 28, 2015, a jointly constructed demonstration plant to produce bioethanol from raw garbage and paper waste, the first of its kind. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hitachi Zosen, CPR plan new biodegradable plastic production

OSAKA, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. and CPR Co. said on June 12 they will jointly produce biodegradable plastic from cassava (in photo), a plant grown in the tropics. The major shipbuilder and the Hyogo Prefecture-based maker of eco-friendly products believe the new plastic could become a cheaper alternative to conventional plastics made from petroleum-derived naphtha besides being less harmful to the environmental. (Kyodo)

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Osaka prosecutors raid Ebara Corp., others over bid-rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Public prosecutors raid Hitachi Zosen Corp. in Osaka on April 18 on suspicion of involvement in bid rigging related to a sewage plant project in Hannan, Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Seawall operated by tsunami

SAKAI, Japan - Hitachi Zosen Corp. shows to reporters in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 9, 2011, a seawater barrier that automatically rises from the ground or seabed using the buoyant force of tidal waves. The Japanese heavy machinery and engineering firm said it has started to accept orders for the seawater barrier it has developed. (Kyodo)

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 17, 2011, shows an experimental remote-controlled breakwater unveiled to the press at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. said the device is designed to rise from the sea floor to counter high tides or tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - An experimental remote-controlled breakwater rises from the sea floor in a demonstration at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 17, 2011. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. aims to introduce the new device to coastal zones where conventional breakwaters have not been installed, due to marine traffic or scenery preservation, to counter high tides or tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi Zosen, NKK to merge shipbuilding units

TOKYO, Japan - NKK Corp. President Yoichi Shimogaichi and Hitachi Zosen Corp. President Iso Minami shake hands at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. The two firms agreed to merge their shipbuilding operations into a fifty-fifty joint venture to be established Oct. 1, 2002 in a bid to survive in the increasingly competitive global market.

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High-speed, anti-spy patrol boat

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A high-speed, anti-spy patrol boat built by Hitachi Zosen Corp. for the Japan Coast Guard is launched in a ceremony at Hitachi's Kanagawa shipyard in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Nov. 9. The 220-ton, 50-meter-long vessel with a top speed of more than 40 knots has been christened Tsurugi. It will be deployed in February at the Niigata Coast Guard office.