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Welcome to Convention News!
The Japanese economy is at last pulling out of its long slump and showing signs of stability and growth.
Thanks to this, international conferences and conventions in Japan are also showing increasingly meaningful results.
In former years, conferences and conventions used to be held in major cities, such as the nation's capital, Tokyo as well as Kyoto, the 1,000-year old castle city, as they had well appointed facilities to host conventions of such magnitude.
However, in recent years, hub cities such as Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, and Fukuoka have also come to host international conferences while other regional cities are readying themselves to join in as host cities.
Conferences these days cover a broad range of topics from the erstwhile ones in the area of science such as medicine and enginnering to ones which are more in line with our daily lives such as those concerning social and environmental problems.
The hosting of various conferences gives rise to opportunities for discussion and exchange of information and in this manner, greatly contributes to the advancements made in each areas of study.
The following are descriptions of conferences which have been held in Japan.