Takenaka Corporation


Takenaka Corporation is one of the big five general contractors in Japan providing services in architecture, engineering, and construction. Its headquarters is located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. Takenaka has 8 domestic offices in Japan and overseas offices in Asia, Europe, and the United States. It is still in family hand and led by the 17th generation since the founding of Takenaka Corporation in 1909.
The Takenaka corporation designed and built the Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum.

About Takenaka

The company's website claims it to be the oldest firm of that type anywhere in the world, since the demise of Kongō Gumi which was substantially older. Both companies originate from a family of architect-carpenters.
In 1610 Tobei Masataka Takenaka, a shrine and temple carpenter, started a business in Nagoya. The business continued as a family business and built some of the first Western-style buildings during the last half of 19th century, most of them in Nagoya. In 1899 Toemon Takenaka, 14th generation descendant of the original founder, established a branch office in Kobe and founded Takenaka Corporation as an official company.
The company grew more and more during the 20th century, its capital in 1909 was about ¥100.000, ¥6 million in 1938, ¥1.5 billion in 1959 and ¥50 billion in 1979; nowadays, Takenaka Corporation is a multinational company with offices in 18 different countries. Its president is Toichi Takenaka .
The company is now regarded in Japan as one of the "Big Five" contractors ranked with Kajima, Obayashi, Shimizu and Taisei, and has a long history of designing buildings. The firm has built some of the most important buildings in Japan, including the Tokyo Tower, the Tokyo Dome, the Fukuoka Dome , and the Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel among others.
Among its proposals is the Sky City 1000 project.
It reconstructed the Suzakumon in Nara.

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