Takenaka Corporation

Takenaka Corporation (株式会社竹中工務店, Kabushiki-gaisha Takenaka Kōmuten) 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.[1] 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.

Takenaka Corporation
株式会社竹中工務店
Private (K.K)
IndustryConstruction, Architecture, Engineering
Founded1610 (Nagoya, Japan)
1909 (Takenaka Corporation)
HeadquartersChūō-ku, Osaka,
Japan
Key people
Toichi Takenaka, Chairman and CEO, Masahiro Miyashita, President and COO
ServicesArchitectural Design, Construction, Renewal, Engineering, Technology, Research and development
Revenue¥ 1,284 billion (consolidated, fiscal 2015)
Total assets¥ 50 billion (as of March 31, 2015)
Number of employees
7,473
2,506 (Licensed Architects)
2,315 (Licensed Construction Managers)
166 (Licensed Engineers)
111 (Ph.D's)
Websitetakenaka.co.jp

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,[2] since the demise of Kongō Gumi which was substantially older.[3] Both companies originate from a family of architect-carpenters (Miyadaiku).

In 1610 Tobei Masataka Takenaka (竹中 藤兵衛正高), 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 (竹中 藤右衛門), 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 (竹中 統一) (June 2004).

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 first large-scale stadium with air-supported membrane roof in Japan), the Fukuoka Dome (Japan's first large-scale stadium with retractable roof), and the Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel among others.

Among its proposals is the Sky City 1000 project.

It reconstructed the Suzakumon in Nara.[4]

Services offered

History timeline
  • 1610 (Keicho 15 years) – Nobunaga Oda former vassal, founded founder Takenaka Hyoe Fuji Masataka is in Nagoya. The erecting of shrines and temples to work.
  • 1899 (Meiji 1957) – 14 Daitake Nakatoh MigiEmon, advance to Kobe, and founding the first year. And construction Mitsui Bank Kobe Onohama warehouse.
  • 1909 – partnership Takenaka establishment. A branch of the Nagoya head office in Kobe. 100,000 yen capital.
  • 1923 (Taisho 12 years) – the head office in Osaka moved to, and branch office in Kobe head office.
  • 1935 – Kobe mosque construction.
  • 1937 (Showa 12 years) – Established Takenaka Corporation. 1.5 million yen in capital. President Takenaka FujimigiEmon.
  • 1945 – to Takenaka FujimigiEmon is chairman, one smelting Takenaka became president.
  • 1958 – Tokyo Tower construction.
  • 1980 – to Takenaka smelting one is chairman, Takenaka unification became president.
  • 1984 – Kobe Takenaka founding land, Chuo-ku, in Zhongshan hand, corporate museum "to commemorate the 85 anniversary Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum opened"
  • 1988 – is a multi-purpose stadium due to Japan's first air film structure Tokyo Dome completed.
  • 1993 (Heisei 5 years) – which is Japan's first roof retractable multi-purpose stadium Fukuoka Dome completed.
  • 1997 – Osaka Dome, Nagoya Dome, International Stadium Yokohama completed.
  • 2004 – the Tokyo head office, Tokyo Koto-ku, new construction relocation to.
  • 2006 – Midland Square (Nagoya) completed.
  • 2007 – Tokyo Midtown, Shin-Marunouchi Building completed.
  • 2010 – Founding 400 anniversary
  • 2013 – announced the president from outside the first founding family.

Issues

Insufficient reinforcement
  • On November 19, 2007, during the construction of a 27-story (94 meter high) highrise condominium in Minato, Tokyo, the whole 8th and 9th floors of the building had to be dismantled and rebuilt because reinforcing steel of insufficient strength had been used.[5][6][7]

Industrial accident cover-ups
  • According to a report of December 28, 2007, a 52-year-old foreman of a Takenaka condominium construction site in Fukushima ward, Osaka, falsely reported an industrial accident in which a falling concrete hose seriously injured a worker of sub-contractor, Airtech Co., Ltd., as having happened at a different, demolition, site that the foreman was also in charge of. Takenaka and Airtech were issued a summary indictment by the Osaka prosecutor's office for violating the Industrial Safety and Health Act.[8]

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  • Takenaka also announced on December 19, 2007, that it had failed to report an industrial accident at a Toyota factory it was building in Kariya City, Aichi Prefecture, and that it was under investigation for violation of the Industrial Safety and Health Act.[10]

Tax evasion (non-reporting of income)
  • In March 2013, it was discovered that the Osaka National Tax Office had reprimanded the company for failing to declare about 30 million yen of income (9 million yen of it intentionally) between 2008 and 2011.[11]。
  • Then in April 2015, the same office reprimanded the company again for underreporting its income for the four years between 2010 and 2013 by about 150 million yen.[12]

Leaky subway
  • On September 25, 2014, train services at Nagoya Station on the Higashiyama Subway Line were suspended for nine hours due to water leaking into the station as a result of construction work the company was carrying out on the JR Tower Nagoya building.[13]

Falling window
  • On February 17, 2015, a window frame weighing approximately 100 kg fell from the 4th floor of the Kofu City Hall building, which had been built by the company and two other companies. A subsequent investigation by Kofu City found 87 defects in the building. Executives of Takenaka and the other two companies involved, Nihon Sekkei and Sankyo Tateyama, visited the mayor of Kofu on March 20, 2015, to apologize.[14]

Selected projects

Public facilities
Nifrel Aquarium at Expocity by Takenaka

Commercial facilities
  • Prada Tokyo (with Herzog and de Meuron)
  • Miu Miu Tokyo (with Herzog and de Meuron)
  • Maison Hermes (with Renzo Piano)
  • Expocity

Historic buildings and religious architecture

Schools

Sports stadiums

Office buildings

Museums and theme parks

Dwellings

Plants and research laboratories
  • Suntory World Research Center
  • Zeria Pharmaceutical Tsukuba Plant
  • Toyota Industries Corporation Information Technology Institute
  • Nichia headquarters third research building
  • Tateyama brewing headquarters factory
  • Sanyo Denki Technology Center
  • Yanmar Diesel Co., Ltd. Biwa Plant
  • Stanley Electric Hatano new Building 2

Hotels

Hospitals

See also
  • Nippon Club (New York)

References
  1. "Corporate Profile." Takenaka Corporation. Retrieved on October 20, 2009.
  2. History of Takenaka | Company Overview | TAKENAKA CORPORATION
  3. Family Business – The World's Oldest Family Companies
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-11-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Takenaka Partial demolition of high rise condominium due to reinforcing steel of insufficient strength Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine、Sankei Shimbun news]
  6. Takenaka uses inferior reinforcing steel in high-rise condominium Japan Buyer's Agent Association
  7. Takenaka contrite about reinforcing error "Insufficient reinforcing" The Final Report
  8. Nomination stop measures regarding Takenaka Construction, Kinki Regional Board, December 12, 2007PDF file]
  9. Takenaka conceals industrial accident, site manager blames sub-contractor 07/12/19 | Yahoo Blog
  10. Takenaka Construction's work accident cover-up at Toyota factory construction site- 07/12/19 | Archive.fo
  11. Takenaka Corp: non-reporting of 150 million yen over 4 years: reprimand by Osaka National Tax Office" jiji.com April 20, 2015
  12. Takenaka Corp: non-reporting of 150 million yen over 4 years: reprimand by Osaka National Tax Office" jiji.com April 20, 2015
  13. "Water leakage into Nagoya Subway from adjacent JP Tower: Takenaka Apologizes" Speednews Blog September 26, 2014
  14. "Falling window from Kofu City Hall – 3 companies take responsibility, executives apologize" Asahi Shimbun March 20, 2015
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