The Diet & Beauty Fair 2021 at Tokyo Big Sight Aomi Exhibition Hall will be held by Informa Markets Japan from September 13 to 15, 2021.

This year’s focus is on Femtech – products, and services that use technology orientated on women’s health.

Set to held concurrently with Spa & Wellness Japan and Anti-Ageing Japan, Diet & Beauty Fair includes following zones: Cosmetics & Beauty Equipment (products for face & body, mineral cosmetics, hair & scalp-care, nail-care & eyelash products, cosmetics for men, facial & slimming devices, etc.), Body-Making (corrective & functional underwear, diet & exercise machines and programs, sports apparel, shoes & related goods, etc.), Diet (supplements & low-calorie foods, nutritional & exercise consulting etc.), Inner Beauty (superfoods, natural & organic foods, macrobiotics etc.), Ingredient/OEM (anti-aging ingredients & raw materials, packaging, etc.), Beauty/Health Tech (AI, digital healthcare etc.), Business Support/Franchise & Sales Promotion.

Last year, 252 companies exhibited in 453 booths, and 12,805 people visited the show over the course of three days.

The exhibition will feature number of keynote speeches, events and seminars on Femcare and Femtech alongside with the updates on the current situation, market analysis and newest trends.

One of Japan’s largest computer entertainment festivals TGS 2021 – Tokyo Game Show organized by The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) will take place for four days from September 30 to October 3 in an online format.

With one month to go before the event, TGS 2021 Online Preparation Special live stream will be broadcasted on the
official Youtube channel starting from 5 pm on September 1st.

The contents of the program are as follows.

① Overview of TGS 2021
② Exhibitors
③ Exhibited Products (Vol. 1)
④ Exhibitors time schedule
⑤ Amazon Special Site
⑥ Indie Games / Sense of Wonder Night
⑦ Overview of the First Free Trial Titles
⑧ TGS VR
⑨ TOKYO GAME MUSIC FES
⑩ Collaboration T-shirts, official T-shirts
⑪ Overview of Makuhari venue
⑫ Official Supporter Announcement
⑬ Online Experience Tour
⑭ Online business appointments
⑮ Recruitment influencers
⑯ Upcoming Schedule

As this year’s TGS is the 25th anniversary of the event, it has been announced that a full orchestra concert of game music, “TOKYO GAME MUSIC FES”, will be held for the first time in TGS history.
The details will also be announced in the special program.

On August 28, HIKKY, a production company for XR-related events, began accepting applications from general exhibitors for the world’s largest VR event, Virtual Market (Vket) 2021 scheduled for December 4 to 18.
Virtual Market holds the Guinness World Record for “Most booths at a virtual reality market event” and is running 24 hours attracting more than 1 million visitors from all over the world, which makes it an unmissable event for anyone interested in VR.

Vket 2021 not just allows users to buy and sell both 3D – items such as avatars, and real products – clothes, computers, food & drink, etc.) at its virtual venue but also offers a number of other experiences such as riding the attractions, watching movies, and participating in live music performances, all within the venue.

Visitors can communicate with each other and enjoy a sense of reality as if they were enjoying the market together, in the real world.

Vket started as a way to buy and sell 3D data products between individuals, but in recent years, with the entry of major companies, the sale of real products has been enhanced, creating new possibilities for VR commerce.

Vket2021 will have a total of 534 booths in 15 different venues for the general exhibitors.
The application period ends at 23:59 on September 13, with the lottery results to be announced on September 20.
The exhibition fee is 3,300 JPY.

Under the title of TOKYO Premium Social Studies 2021 the new custom-made 2 days-long tours covering all the best from Tokyo Station area, Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, and Tokyo Dome in Suidobashi, were created as a safe and convenient way to re-discover the beauty of the city..

Organizers have prepared two types of tours providing a refreshing and interesting experience including the excursion to the backyard of the famous Tokyo Dome stadium and privately reserved just for the tour participants the whole SKY CIRCUS observation deck located on the 60th floor of the Sunshine City complex.

The first tour, covering Sunshine City observation deck and aquarium at day and Tokyo Dome at night with a stay at the Tokyo Dome Hotel will take place on September 11, September 26, and October 3, 2021
The second tour offering the Sunshine City experience during the daytime followed by the midnight excursion of the Tokyo Station City, is scheduled for November 6, 2021. Hotel options include Tokyo Station Hotel and the Hotel Metropolitan Marunouchi.

Each tour has a maximum capacity of 40 people.
Tickets sold by the travel agency Tabikobo.

The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) will hold online business meetings for five days from September 29 to October 3 as a part of Tokyo Game Show 2021 Online (TGS2021 ONLINE). The application period for the fee-paid participants with user registration and appointment scheduling starts on August 20.
The Tokyo Game Show not only promotes new games, new products and new services to the game fans but also attracts many companies seeking new business partners and opportunities.
All B-to-B negotiations scheduled to be held in online-only format.
Interested industry professionals can register in the Business Matching System by purchasing a “Gold Pass” or a “General Pass”, view profiles of exhibitors with technologies, products, and services they provide, and to make all necessary business appointments through the system.
Gold Pass registration fee is 27,500 yen per account and it allows user to contact all online exhibitors (over 300 companies, both domestic and overseas) as well as other participants.
General Pass registration fee is 11,000 yen per account and it allows user to contact only the exhibitors.

The Japan Machine Tool Builders’ Association (JMTBA) and Tokyo Big Sight have announced that 31st edition of Japan International Machine Tool Fair 2022 (JIMTOF) will be held at Tokyo Big Sight for six days from November 8 to 13, 2022.
The application period for members starts from October 1.
Held biennially JIMTOF, is Japan’s largest machine tool trade fair, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.
This time in addition to the East and West Exhibition Halls of Tokyo Big Sight, the South Exhibition Hall will be used as an extended venue, making the total exhibition area 118,540 ㎡, the largest ever.
A new special program, “Additive Manufacturing Area in JIMTOF 2022,” will be set in the South Exhibition Hall.
In 2020, the event was held online for the first time due to the spread of COVID-19. In 2022, the event will be held on-site, with expanded online catalog functions and detailed information on the official website.
Organizers aiming to create a sense of anticipation for the event, attract visitors, and stimulate business negotiations.

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. will hold an online exhibition, “DX and the World of Entertainment in Digital Koshien,” at the 3D reproduction of the Hanshin Koshien Stadium “The Digital Koshien” for four days from September 7 to 10, 2021.
This is the second event following the “With Corona Exhibition in Digital Koshien” held in March this year, and uses the virtual space platform “XR CLOUD” developed and operated by monoAI technology.
Exhibitors and visitors can make two-way voice calls through their avatars and experience a sense of reality as if they were having a business meeting on the ground of the actual Hanshin Koshien Stadium.
Exhibitors will include Marubeni Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc. ASICS, NTT Communications, TIS, etc.
About 25 celebrities are expected to participate in the online seminar, including Member of the House of Representatives and Minister of Defense Taro Kono, President of KADOKAWA Takeshi Natsuno, President of SHOWROOM Yuji Maeda, President of HiRAKU and former captain of the Japanese national rugby team Toshiaki Hirose, and a famous director, television producer, critic, and writer Terry Itoh. The lecture will be projected on a large screen set up near the home base of the Digital Koshien, and visitors will be able to listen to the lecture through their avatars.
This online exhibition uses the know-how of monoAI technology and has convenient features such as “private voice chat function”, “business card exchange function”, and “booth transfer function”.

SoftBank and SB C&S will hold 10th edition of its largest corporate event “SoftBank World 2021” in an online format from September 15 to 17, 2021

Under the main theme “Learn current digital transformation trends to have a clear vision of tomorrow”, the latest information on SoftBank’s DX initiatives and examples with partner companies will be introduced.

The themes for each day of the event are “Power of DX – Changing with Technology, Now and in the Future” on the first day, “Marketing DX & Security – Accelerating Business Growth through Data Utilization” on the second day, and “Communication DX – How to Work in the New Era” on the third day.
In addition to keynote speeches and special programs with guests, there will be more than 60 sessions by specialists in various fields, sponsors, and Softbank group companies. At the online exhibition booths, you can also view videos and documents about the services of the sponsors.

For two days, from November 20th to 21st, one of the largest Spanish festivals in Japan “Fiesta de España” will welcome everyone to celebrate the beauty of Spain with its famous wines and paella complemented by flamenco and guitar performance in the heart of Tokyo, the famous Yoyogi park.

One of the stage highlights will be the traditional art of pouring sherry by “venenciador” a craftsman with excellent skills who uses a device called venencia to extract a small quantity of wine and pour it into the tasting glass from a height to help the wine to aerate and open up, enabling the tasters to fully appreciate its characteristics.

And of course, a large number of Spanish food stalls will present the most delicious and famous dishes. You can enjoy authentic Spanish dishes such as paella, ahijo, freshly grilled sausages and the Basque cheesecake along with beer, cava (sparkling wine) and souvenirs for sale.

■Fiesta de España 2021
Date: Saturday, November 20 – Sunday, November 21
10:00 – 20:00 *Last day until 19:00
Venue: Event Plaza, Yoyogi Park (subject to weather condition)

“Ceramic and Porcelain Fair in Fukuoka” will be held for five days from September 2 to 6 at the newly built “B” building in Marine Messe Fukuoka.

This event brings together the works of various pottery makers and artists from all over Japan, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. The items representing more than 14 types of ceramic styles of Japanese pottery will be available for sale as well.

In the “Artists’ Works x Ikebana Collaboration”, Ikebana Academy and the West Japan Ikebana Federation will display flower arrangements on vases made by the exhibitors.
At the “Okawa Traditional Craft Exhibition” furniture products and interior goods such as Kumiko, paulownia chests, and Kakegawa textiles, made by the skillful craftsmen will be displayed, along with woodworking workshops and performances.

■National Ceramics Fair in Fukuoka 2021
Date: September 2 – 6, 2021
Venue: Marine Messe Fukuoka “B” Building
Advanced tickets available for sale at 600 JPY
*Limited number of coupon tickets available as well