An evening reception was held to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). The event was attended by about 150 stakeholders from Europe and Japan, including the officials from EU embassies and related Japanese ministries, as well as company representatives. There was a lively discussion on further strengthening cooperation and mutual trade between Europe and Japan. The opening speeches featured presentations on successful joint projects and business survey results. After the testimonies, a networking reception was held alongside with a showcasing of European and Japanese food products.
2024年2月28日、厚生労働省主催の「Tokyo AMR One- Health Conference」が開催されました。本会議は、国際連合食糧農業機関(FAO)、国際獣疫事務局(WOAH)、国連環境計画(UNEP)、世界保健機関南東アジア及び西太平洋地域事務局(WHO)の支援のもと開催され、世界33ヵ国・機関から約200名のオンライン参加者が集まり、浜松町コンベンションホール & Hybrid スタジオを配信拠点として、ハイブリッド形式にて実施されました。
主にアジア太平洋地域の保健省、農水省、環境省などの局長級職員、研究者、医療関係者、関係機関の AMR 担当者などが、専門知識や経験を共有し、実り多い議論が行われました。また後半では、4 つの ASPIRE ワーキンググループの 戦略についてワーキンググループも実施され、活発な議論が行われました。
2023年4月3日(月)~6日(木)にかけてパシフィコ横浜ノースにて、「第27回ESV国際会議 (International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles)」が開催され、「次の50年に向けたすべての人のための先進的で公平な車両安全」をテーマに最先端の自動車安全技術や運転技術に関する国際会議・展示会が行われました。
The 29th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH2022 KYOTO) ended successfully on October 16 2022!
With a five-day program and several social events, ISH2022 KYOTO was held at the International Conference Center Kyoto from October 12th to 16th, 2022.
Since the start of the bidding process in 2015, we have been working with the local organizing committee and discussed plans to best hold a successful meeting in Kyoto.
However, when Kyoto was chosen in 2016 to host the ISH2022 meeting, no one could have imagined that the world would face such great challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
We struggled to find a way to organize the meeting with on-site participants from all over the world for quite a long time, taking into account the very worst scenarios.
In the end, however, we had welcomed more than 1,500 attendees, of which over 400 were international participants, and the honor of having Their Imperial Highnesses Crown Price and Crown Princess Akishino in attendance at the Opening Ceremony. During those 5 days, we saw many happy faces, were able to shake hands and come together to celebrate a reunion; experiencing the thrill of international conferences after 2020.
In August 2022 we organized two TICAD8 Official Side Events: first being the “HEALTHY SOILS FOR FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA -POTENTIAL OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE”, co-hosted by the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), and second, held three weeks afterwards, the “MULTIDIMENSIONAL DIGITALLY-ENABLED AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION IN AFRICA -ACCELERATING AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE FACE OF GLOBAL CRISES-”, co-hosted by the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS).
Both events were held as a hybrid meeting with a streaming studio set in Tokyo to host representatives, emcee and a number of speakers, and other presenters accessed the event online. To ensure smooth operation during the side events, we conducted connection tests in advance with the speakers joining online. We also had a simultaneous interpretation service, making the side events available both to domestic audiences in Japanese as well as to overseas viewers in English.
All in all, the side events were a great success, with more than 500 active participants from various countries. The live broadcast recordings will be further used for archive streaming by the host, making the events available to a wider audience who could not join us during the event.