JAPANESE port city, Yokohama, has won the bid for two association congresses – the 12th International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society Congress (ISRS) in 2015 and the Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (A-PHPBA) Regional Congress in 2017.
Motohiro Hayashi from the Tokyo Women’s Medical University and chair of the local organising committee for ISRS 2015 said the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society had selected Yokohama over Hong Kong because Japan would host related meetings to boost attendance at the congress and possessed a living knowledge of how to decrease the dangers of radiology from nuclear plants, following its recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
ISRS 2015 will be held at PACIFICO Yokohama, the flagship facility of the city.
Japan also defeated Indonesia to clinch the hosting rights for A-PHPBA Regional Congress, which will be co-hosted by the A-PHPBA and the Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (JSHBPS).
To be hosted in Yokohama, the congress is expected to attract over 3,000 researchers from Japan and beyond.
Kana Nomoto, chief coordinator, convention sales department of the Yokohama Convention & Visitors Bureau, said: “Winning ISRS 2015 and A-PHPBA 2017 is testament to Yokohama’s pull as the nation’s centre of innovation and research. We are proud that our city’s Japan’s First Port of Call image is strong and gives confidence to association planners around the world.”
