Taisei Corporation
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Taisei Corporation (大成建設株式会社, Taisei Kensetsu Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese corporation which was established in 1873. Its main areas of business are building construction, civil engineering, and real estate development.
Taisei Corp. has domestic offices in twelve Japanese cities, and overseas offices in Seoul, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Philippines, Myanmar, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, India, Turkey, Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt, U.S.A., and Peru.
[edit] History
Taisei Corp. was founded in 1873 as Okuragumi Shokai. It became Nippon Doboku Co., Ltd. in 1887, and was renamed Taisei Corporation in 1946. The company completed Japan's first subway in 1927, the new Imperial Palace in 1968, and the Yokohama Bay Bridge in 1989. It is currently building a 14-kilometer rail tunnel under the Bosphorus which will link the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, Turkey.