Turkey serves lesson for Japan's infrastructure export drive

IHI, others lost to cheaper South Korean proposal on Dardanelles bridge

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The South Korean and Turkish ministers hold up the signed contracts for the bridge project.  

SINAN TAVSAN, Nikkei staff writer

ANKARA -- Though Japan is working to boost infrastructure exports by focusing on its technological prowess, its failure to score a major bridge-building contract in Turkey shows how costs and other considerations can take precedence.

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