Tokyo, JAPAN – On September 25, 2025, Mr. Ryuji Manai from the Railway Division of Oriental Consultants Global Co., Ltd. (OC Global), received the 44th Ozawa Overseas Service Award (Ozawa Kaigai Koro-Sho) at the General Meeting of the Association of Infrastructure Development Institute-Japan (IDI-Japan).

Established in 1980 through a contribution from the late Dr. Kyutaro Ozawa, the first President of IDI-Japan, the award commemorates his passion for international cooperation. It is awarded to individuals and corporations that have made significant contributions to cooperation in land development overseas.

Mr. Manai has had a career spanning 46 years since 1979, consistently devoted to overseas infrastructure development. For the first 23 years, he worked as a contractor, completing ten construction projects in Hong Kong. For the latter 23 years, he worked as a consultant, completing major ODA projects in Bangladesh and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Since 2017, he has served for six and a half years as Project Manager of the “Jabodebek Light Rail Transit Construction Project”, the largest railway project in Indonesia implemented as a non-ODA project financed by the national government (44 km in length with a total project cost of USD 1.8 billion), leading a team of 135 international experts and local staff. He brought the project into operation in August 2023 and was presented with a certificate of appreciation by the Indonesian Railway Bureau. Mr. Manai also possesses expertise in the field of dispute resolution in construction contracts,  being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and being registered as a Japanese Adjudicator with the Engineering and Consulting Firms Association, Japan (ECFA). Currently, he serves as Project Manager of the North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project in Manila, the largest-ever ODA project. In recognition of these achievements, he has been honored with the award.

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