Institute of International Education
2009 U.S. Higher Education Fairs in Asia

Tokyo, Japan
September 26, 2009 (Saturday)

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- Fair Schedule
- Fair Venue
- Who Attends the Fair?
- Fair Cost
- Shipping Information
- Visa Information
- Hotel Information
- Links to Country & City Guides
- Fair Coordinator Contact Information
- Return to 2009 IIE Fairs Main Page

Fair Schedule
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Registration, Country Briefing, Setup, Lunch
1:00 pm
Fair Opens
5:00 pm
Fair Ends
Fair Venue

UDX GALLERY
Akihabara UDX 4F
Sotokanda 4-14-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021
Japan

Access:
2-minute walk from JR Akihabara station (Denkigai Exit)
4-minute walk from Metro Akihabara station on Hibiya Line (Exit 2)
3-minutes walk from Metro Suehiro-cho station on Ginza Line (Exit 1)  
Website: www.udx.jp/gallery/index.html (Japanese only)

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Fair Costs
Date
Country
City
Price (US$)
IIE Member
Non-IIE Member
Literature Only
9/26 (Sat)
Japan
Tokyo
2,200
2,300
500

Who Attends the Fair?

The U.S. is the top study-abroad destination for Japanese students.

The IIE fair is one of the biggest and well-attended fairs in Japan. Many fair attendees learn about the fair through Fulbright Japan's ETS. Most of our users are very serious about studying in the U.S.

If you decide to attend the fair, we strongly recommend:

- Invite your alumni to assist at your booth
- Publicize programs, services, and opportunities which Japanese students find appealing such as financial aid and scholar ships opportunities, low costs, safety, etc.

The fair venue is located in Akihabara, which is a major shopping area as well as a Mecca for Japanese pop-culture.

About 700 visitors attended the Tokyo Fair in 2008. Most were self-sponsored potential undergraduate freshmen, transfers, and graduate students. Subject areas sought after by Japanese students are widespread from Business, Social Science, Humanities to Science & Technologies. Intensive English courses are also very popular. About 30% of the visitors to the 2008 fair were looking for 4-year college/university programs and masters programs respectively. 13% of the visitors were thinking of 2-year college programs and ESL programs respectively. The remaining 14% were mainly interested in doctors programs and vocational school programs. 

Tokyo is the center of the world’s second largest economy with a population of over 12 million. Japan is a mature and stable market and the number of going to study in the USA does not change dramatically from year to year. The number has been declining since 2003 due to the demographic change and good employment prospects. However, the rising unemployment rate and increasing competition in the job market resulted from the current economic difficulties are likely to boost the demand for study abroad. 

Important:
Because of increasing legal concerns regarding privacy protection, it is becoming more difficult to collect and release personal information in Japan. However, in response to requests from U.S. exhibitors, we will ask Fair visitors for written consent to release their email addresses to exhibitors. A list will be sent to exhibitors approximately one month after the Fairs. Participating schools are still strongly advised to collect personal information from prospective students directly at their booths.

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Shipping Information

Click here to download OCS shipping kit.
Click here to download OCS address labels.

OCS will be working with IIE again in 2009 as the official shipper of exhibitor materials to the IIE fair series.

As the IIE fair official shipper, OCS will keep track of all exhibitors’ materials, store all exhibitors’ materials in OCS overseas stations, and deliver all exhibitors’ materials to the fair venue one day prior to the event day.

IIE strongly recommends using OCS as your courier to ensure customs clearance and safe arrival directly to the IIE fair venue. Using OCS allows OCS, IIE and you to track your materials and ensure safe delivery directly to the venue.

If you decide to use another carrier to ship directly overseas, your ship-to address should be the OCS agency address in each destination country.

Note that neither OCS nor IIE will be able to assist exhibitors to track or to locate or to assist delivery of shipping materials if the exhibitor chooses another courier or does not follow OCS shipping instructions.

Participating institutions shipping with OCS will not need to make any international shipments. Instead, you can forward all your boxes to the OCS trade fair hub in Boston.

From its Boston trade fair hub, OCS will take care of the rest, including address labeling and export documentation.

OCS will pay all duties and taxes on your behalf overseas and will oversee customs clearance for you in the receiving country.

According to the long experience of IIE/Hong Kong, OCS performs all of these services seamlessly and automatically, for all exhibitors who choose to ship with OCS.

Complete shipping instructions will be emailed to all registered participants.
You can always contact OCS at fairs@shipOCS.com or call toll-free in the U.S. 1-877-2222-OCS.
(Please keep this contact info for your reference.)

Note: for participants NOT using OCS.

If you decide to use another carrier to ship directly overseas, your ship-to address should be the OCS agency address in each destination country. IIE has requested that OCS in each Fair city receive this type of “direct” freight.

After you register for the fair and complete the proper OCS forms, we will send you instructions on where to send boxes for each IIE fair city, and what the charges will be.

Please do NOT ship any materials to the offices of IIE or the fair organizers.

It is the responsibility of your carrier to deliver your materials “door-to-door” overseas to OCS.
Alternatively, you may ship your fair materials to the hotel in which you would stay. Note that you are responsible for contacting your hotel to arrange and confirm shipment.

Please make sure your carrier is able to clear customs in the countries you ship to, and make sure they can take care of duty and taxes for you. Please do NOT ship your materials as “cargo” or “door-to-airport”, because these services generally do NOT include customs clearance.

Again, if you choose to directly ship to your hotel, neither OCS nor IIE will be able to assist you to track or locate or assist delivery of your shipment. Neither OCS nor IIE will be able to assist if your packages are delayed in customs or undeliverable due to improper labeling or other error. Again, IIE strongly recommends shipping through OCS.

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Visa Information

United States citizens do not need to obtain visas for a temporary stay up to 90 days in Japan. Visitors may need to explain to the Immigration Official that they are visiting Japan to participate in a free educational exhibition and not here to earn any income or engage in any paid for services. A permit of stay will be granted.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/02.html#a
Those who are not U.S. citizens must check with a Japanese consulate in the United States.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html 

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Hotel Information

Hotels Near the Fair venue

Marunouchi Hotel
1-6-3 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 03-3217-1111
1 min. walk from Tokyo station
Website:http://www.marunouchi-hotel.co.jp

Yaesu Fujiya Hotel
2-9-1 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 03-3273-2111
5 min. walk from Tokyo station
Website: http://www.yaesufujiya.com

Remm Akihabara
1-6-5 Kandasakumacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Tel: 03-3254-0606
1 min. walk from Akihabara station
Website: http://www.remm.jp/akihabara/index.html (Japanese only)

JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc. (JTB GMT) is a major travel agent in Japan. JTB GMT is happy to offer special rates for hotel room reservations to the IIE fair participants. Please click here to check the special rates.

Please complete and return this reservation form on or before August 24, 2009 to 

JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc
Agency Sales Department
North America & Pan Pacific Team
Tel: +81-3-5796-5421
Fax: +81-3-5495-0682
E-mail: EG01@jtb.jp

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Links to Country & City Guides
   
  1. Japan National Tourism Organization
  2. Lonely Planet Travel Guides and Travel Information, Destination Japan
  3. Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau

 

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Fair Coordinator Contact Information

Winnie Wong
Operation / Business Development Manager
Institute of International Education
Room 601, General Commercial Building
156-164 Des Voeux Road Central
Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2603-5771
Fax: (852) 2603-5765
E-mail: info@iiehongkong.org


Minori Takahashi (Fair Coordinator in Japan)
Director, Keibunsha
303 Tokyo Lutheran Centre Building, 1-2-32 Fujimi
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0071 Japan
Phone: +81 3 3234 1744
Fax: +81 3 3234 1827
E-mail: minori@kbunsha.com
 


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