On February 13th, “Tokyo Olympics 1964 Design Project” opened in Tokyo Modern Art Gallery.
The Tokyo Olympics were not only a sports event, it also was a large-scale design project showcasing the skills of post-war designers.

Young designers from those times, Tanaka Ikkou among others, worked together on producing pictograms, the program and venue guide maps, guiding the visitors to Olympic facilities.

The exhibition is planned to be announced in the spring special number of Trade Fair News “Looking Forward to Invitation to Olympics”.

Retail industry is now an emerging market in South Korea which is the next largest market after manufacturing industry that account for 7.5 percent of GDP.
Thus the first “K Shop Fair 2013” will be held in South Korea.

There are 900,000 retail stores which the total store floor area is up to 125 million square meters in South Korea.
Entering this exhibition will be the key to exploring new market in South Korea, China and several Asian nations.

Due to its emerging market, South Korea will hold its first trade fair which covers the whole field of store-related goods.

website: www.kshopfiar.com

The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, UFI, announced on February 6th its creation of a South-American office as a new chapter after opening its chapters in Europe, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. The chapter is founded with the aim of improving the South American’s influence on both the global economy and the International exhibition industry.

Mr. Xianjin Chen, UFI President, signed a memorandum of understanding with Mr. Andrés López Valderrama, the president of the Asociación Internacional de Ferias de America (AFIDA).
The two organizations agreed to work together for the continuous expansion and growth of the exhibition industry in the South American region and for a further effort to promote and support its members of the organizations.

On Feburuary 26th, MPI JAPAN held “MPI Japan Seminar in Feburuary” at Roppongi Academy Hills. CEO Kiyohisa Tokunaga, also a general manager of Prince Hotel in Takanawa/Shinagawa, appeared on the stage to talked about the theme “Prince Tokyo MICE City -Why Prince Hotel has came out with MICE as its principal strategy?-” and its approach.

Lecture Contents:

1. The reason why “Prince Tokyo MICE City”
2. Reforming awareness from forcusing on the public constructions to providing solutions
3. Changing from a banquet to MICE
4. Stabilizing management with MICE

Website: http://www.mpijapan.com/event.html

On January 31st,Japan Event Produce Congress Association,Japan Association for the Promotion of Creative Events,Event Academy, Japan Event Network Association, Japan Event Director’s Society held the New Year’s Celebration at the party location in Kagurazaka, Tokyo.

It’s the first trial of its kind to held the joint party of these associations.

Mr.Narita, chairman of JACE and administrative director of Event Academy addressed with enthusiasm, “We would like to increase vitality of Japan by showing the upward momentum of these five associations throughout Japan”.