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Tokyo preserves its number 3 rank and continues to display its consistent strengths in all functions while also raising its rank in Environment and Accessibility. The City is behind only London and New York for the fifth year in a row among the top 4...

Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo, one of Japan's leading international hotels, has acquired the "SAFEGUARD LABEL" as a hotel facility that meets the world's health and safety standard on November 17. The label is issued by Bureau Veritas, which is a world lead...

The new site has been redesigned with the aim to provide information in an easy-to-navigate manner in accordance with needs of users. In particular, from the homepage (entry page) a user can choose one of the feature sections: Conference or Corporate...

Recently two new areas - Shibuya and Takeshiba were added to the list of leading areas, made it 9 in total. Shibuya Area Shibuya has been developing as a business district with many international IT companies located there. The "Shibuya Bit Valley"...

 One Young World has announced that the annual Summit 2021 to be held in Tokyo will be postponed until late May 2022 following the postponement of the Munich Summit 2020 till April 2021 due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.  For mor...

On May 12 in the 2019 International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) Statistics Report, ICCA announced that Tokyo, where one hundred and thirty-one meetings were held in 2019, has jumped to 10th place worldwide from 13th, and from 4th to 2n...

Harvard World Model United Nations has announced the postponement of the 29th Harvard World Model Nations (WorldMUN 2020) from March 16–20, 2020 to March 15–19, 2021. This decision has been made due to the recent development of the COVIC-...

The Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau (TCVB) is pleased to announce that Tokyo has been chosen as the host city of the 12th One Young World Summit to be held in late September in 2021. The 2021 One Young World Summit is expected to attract more...

The Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau (TCVB) is delighted to announce that Tokyo has secured the winning bid to host the 14th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021), at...

The Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau (TCVB) is delighted to announce that Tokyo has placed the winning bid to host the 7th Asian and Oceanian Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress (AOPMC) at the Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba on Ma...