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VegProject brings 12 companies together at “VEG FOOD EXPO 2026”—April 15–17 at Tokyo Big Sight, with a new vegan selection area and over 50,000 visitors expected
The NPO VegProject Japan will hold VEG FOOD EXPO at Tokyo Big Sight from April 15–17, 2026. Twelve vegan-certified companies will gather, a special area will be newly set up, and over 50,000 visitors are expected. -
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What are the benefits of exhibiting at a food trade show? 7 reasons it drives sales growth
For companies operating in the food industry, exhibiting at trade shows is an important business strategy. However, because exhibiting involves costs and human resources, some may question its effectiveness. In fact, exhibiting at a food trade show offers many benefits that directly drive sales growth... -
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Learn from successful trade show cases! Strategies to maximize impact
Are you considering exhibiting at a trade show but wondering, “Is it really effective?” or “How can I succeed?” Trade shows in the food, beverage, and agriculture fields are important venues that create diverse business opportunities, from acquiring new customers to improving brand awareness... -
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Hobby Cooking Fair
The Hobby Cooking Fair is a hands-on fair connecting companies with visitors who are highly interested in cooking and food, under the theme “Food is heartful media.” Women in their 30s to 60s tend to make up about 80% of visitors, with high participation in discovering new ingredients, cooking experiences, and gaining food knowledge... -
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NEXT TABLE Exhibition
NEXT TABLE is a specialized trade show that, under the theme of “the future of food,” introduces foods and services that respond to changing lifestyles and diversifying consumer needs. Alternative protein foods, vegan and vegetarian options, gluten-free products, functional foods, and... -
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West Japan Food Industry Creation Fair ’26
The 36th West Japan Food Industry Creation Fair ’26 is a specialized trade show themed on technological innovation and industrial development in food manufacturing and processing, held May 20–22, 2026 at Marine Messe Fukuoka in Fukuoka City. It covers a wide range of exhibits including food machinery, packaging and materials, hygiene and quality control, and sustainable manufacturing technology... -
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FABEX Chubu 2026
[Important] FABEX Chubu 2026 has been canceled. Per the organizer’s announcement (December 15, 2025), the next event is scheduled for 2027. Please check the official website https://chubu.fabex.jp/ for details. FABEX Chubu covers the food business including commercial foods and ingredients, processing equipment, packaging materials, and store facilities... -
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Dessert, Sweets & Bakery Exhibition
The Dessert, Sweets & Bakery Exhibition is a business-matching specialized trade show focused on the fields of Japanese confectionery, Western confectionery, bakery, and cafés. It covers a wide range of exhibit fields, from ingredients and raw materials, semi-processed products, packaging and containers, machinery and manufacturing equipment, to store equipment and services. As exhibiting companies... -
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International Hotel & Restaurant Show
The International Hotel & Restaurant Show (HCJ 2026) is one of Japan’s largest business-matching trade shows specialized in the service industries and food business fields such as hotels, ryokan, restaurants, institutional catering, and catering. It is held from February 17 to 20, 2026 at Tokyo Big Sight (East and West Halls)... -
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Agri Week Fukuoka
Agri Week Fukuoka is a specialized trade show that comprehensively covers materials, technology, and management support for agriculture and livestock. Held in the Kyushu area, it draws many visitors including regional agricultural corporations, JA agricultural cooperatives, livestock operators, and companies from across Japan considering entry into the field. Exhibits include the Smart Agriculture EXPO, the Agri Materials EXPO,... -
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Food & Catering Show
The Food & Catering Show is a specialized trade show designed for professionals in the food service industry, including institutional catering, boxed meals, and delivery services. It covers not only commercial ingredients, frozen/refrigerated foods, and beverages, but also kitchen equipment and machinery, hygiene and cleaning materials, packaging and containers, and IT/DX solutions... -
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ifia JAPAN 2026
ifia JAPAN 2026 is one of Japan’s leading specialized trade shows, themed on food ingredients, additives, and functional foods. It covers a wide range of fields, from raw materials such as seasonings, flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, enzymes, and proteins, to OEM and contract processing, analysis and testing services, and food safety and quality control technology... -
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Kitchen Equipment Exhibition
The Kitchen Equipment Exhibition 2026 is a specialized trade show that broadly introduces kitchen facilities, cooking equipment, hygiene management, store fixtures, and service solutions to sites such as restaurants, lodging facilities, and institutional catering. Exhibit targets include commercial kitchen equipment and utensils, beverage-related equipment, hygiene and cleaning facilities, and IT/IoT... -
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Supermarket Trade Show
The Supermarket Trade Show 2026 is one of Japan’s foremost business-matching trade shows for the food distribution industry, including supermarkets. Food manufacturers, trading companies, wholesalers, ready-made meal businesses, and restaurant chains attend in large numbers, making it a platform directly tied to distribution and sales-channel expansion, in-store reform, and product development... -
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Cafe Show Japan
Cafe Show Japan is a specialized trade show covering raw materials, cooking equipment, store supplies, and service solutions related to cafés, bakeries, and sweets. Café owners, bakery owners, sweets manufacturers, ingredient and equipment makers, store design and service operators, and others... -
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FOOD STYLE Okinawa
FOOD STYLE JAPAN 2026 is a business-matching trade show for foods, beverages, ingredients, equipment, and services held in Okinawa Prefecture. Aimed at buyers in the restaurant, ready-made meal, and retail industries and at food-related businesses, it introduces a diverse range of products in one place, supporting nationwide sales-channel development and entry into the regional market... -
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FOODEX JAPAN
FOODEX JAPAN is a global business-matching platform for the food and beverage industry. Manufacturers, trading companies, wholesalers, retailers, restaurants, and distributors from Japan and abroad gather in one place, held with the aim of developing new sales channels not only in the domestic market but also including the Asian market. Exhibit fields include processed foods... -
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Food & Beverage OEM Expo
The Food & Beverage OEM Expo is a specialized business-matching trade show for companies wanting to develop and expand sales of private-brand (PB) and OEM (contract manufacturing) products in the food and beverage fields. It connects the “looking for a contractor” side—food and beverage makers, retailers, and mail-order businesses considering development—with the contracting side... -
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FABEX 2026
FABEX 2026 is one of Japan’s largest business-matching trade shows for commercial foods and ingredients and related equipment and containers, with many companies targeting the commercial market—restaurants, ready-made meals, delicatessen, institutional catering, and more—exhibiting and attending. It runs for three days, April 15 (Wed) to 17 (Fri), 2026, at Tokyo Big Sight... -
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Premium Food Show
The Premium Food Show is a specialized trade show that brings together products and services responding to increasingly diverse food needs such as vegan, plant-based, halal, gluten-free, and organic. Exhibit targets include the manufacturing and sale of health-oriented, environmentally conscious, and inbound/export-oriented products... -
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Dessert, Sweets & Bakery Exhibition
Dessert, Sweets & Bakery Exhibition Tokyo is a specialized business-matching trade show covering a wide range—from ingredients, processed products, machinery, and packaging materials for Japanese confectionery, Western confectionery, bakery, and cafés, to foods, ingredients, machinery, utensils, packaging containers, and store facilities. Exhibit targets include confectionery manufacturers, bakeries... -
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Mail-Order Food Exhibition & Business Meeting
The “Mail-Order Food Exhibition & Business Meeting” is Japan’s only exhibition and business meeting specialized in the mail-order and delivery food industry, bringing together food manufacturers from across the country with mail-order, EC, and buyers in one place. Held on October 29 (Wed) and 30 (Thu), 2025 at the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan in Yurakucho, Tokyo, exhibiting companies focus on PB development,... -
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Regional Bank Food Selection
The “Regional Bank Food Selection” is one of Japan’s largest food business meetings, held with the aim of regional banks, credit unions, and credit cooperatives across the country supporting local food-related companies. Held each year at Tokyo Big Sight, food manufacturers, processors, and producers from across the country exhibit, and department stores, super... -
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FOOD STYLE Fukuoka
“FOOD STYLE Fukuoka” is one of western Japan’s largest food business trade shows, aimed at the latest trends and business meetings in the restaurant, ready-made meal, and retail industries. A diverse range of exhibitors—food manufacturers, processors, beverage, seasoning, and raw material companies, and equipment and service providers—gather from across the country, offering practical opportunities limited to industry professionals... -
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Restaurant Industry Innovation Week Tokyo
Restaurant Industry Innovation Week is a trade show for solving challenges faced by restaurants, restaurant chains, and food manufacturers—such as labor shortages, operational efficiency, customer attraction, and food loss reduction—through cutting-edge technology and new services. It is organized by RX Japan Ltd. and held at Makuhari Messe... -
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FABEX Tokyo
FABEX Tokyo 2026 is one of Japan’s largest trade shows covering commercial foods and ingredients, processing machinery, packaging materials, and store facilities for the delicatessen, boxed meal, ready-made meal, restaurant, and institutional catering industries. It is held April 15 (Wed) to 17 (Fri), 2026 at Tokyo Big Sight. Food manufacturers, trading companies, and others gather from across the country... -
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Food Factory Week
Food Factory Week is a trade show for solving challenges faced by food manufacturing and processing sites through the latest technology and solutions. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It centers on four themes: automation, labor-saving, and DX; hygiene and safety measures; food loss reduction; and improving the workplace environment... -
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Drink Japan
Drink Japan is a trade show specialized in the development and manufacturing of beverages and liquid foods, now in its 10th edition. It runs from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025 at Makuhari Messe. It brings together everything involved in beverage-making—raw materials and ingredients, packaging, filling and manufacturing machinery, brewing equipment, and inspection devices... -
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International Food Logistics EXPO
The International Food Logistics EXPO is a specialized trade show focused on the import/export and domestic logistics of food. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It brings together every logistics solution involved in food distribution—packaging, cold storage, transport, inventory management, and import/export support services... -
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Health Food Expo
The “Health Food Expo” is a food development and ingredients exhibition themed on “health,” covering health and functional foods, ingredients and additives, and organic and natural foods. Target exhibit items include health foods, supplements, vitamins and minerals, amino acids, herbs, and beauty/diet foods... -
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"Japanese Food" Export EXPO
The “Japanese Food” Export EXPO is an international trade show where domestic food manufacturers exhibit to expand sales channels to overseas markets. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It covers a wide range of fields including agricultural, livestock, and marine products, beverages, seasonings, processed foods, and confectionery... -
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FOOMA JAPAN
“FOOMA JAPAN” is one of Japan’s largest business-matching trade shows bringing together machinery, equipment, technology, and solutions in the food manufacturing and processing fields. The venue features cooking and processing of food raw materials, filling and packaging, inspection and measurement, hygiene management and foreign-matter prevention, and automation using robots and IoT, along with labor-saving... -
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JFEX Winter (7th International Food & Beverage Business Week)
JFEX Winter (7th International Food & Beverage Business Week) is an international business-matching trade show specialized in the food and beverage fields. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It comprises five specialized areas covering processed foods, wine and spirits, premium foods, fresh foods, and inbound-oriented foods... -
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Japanese Food Export EXPO
The “Japanese Food Export EXPO” is a specialized trade show supporting the overseas development of Japanese food. Targeting a wide range of product genres—agricultural and livestock products, marine products, processed foods, beverages, seasonings, and frozen foods—food manufacturers and producers from across the country exhibit. Overseas buyers, export trading companies, retail and restaurant businesses... -
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FABEX Kansai 2025
FABEX Kansai is the largest specialized trade show in the Kansai area for commercial foods, ingredients, and related equipment, held from November 26 (Wed) to 28 (Fri), 2025 at INTEX Osaka. It brings together food and ingredient exhibitors such as delicatessen, boxed meals, ready-made meals, restaurants, processed ingredients, seasonings and spices, fats and oils, and beverages... -
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International Food Logistics EXPO
The International Food Logistics EXPO is a specialized trade show that brings together technology and services supporting the front lines of logistics and distribution in the food and beverage industry. It covers a wide range of fields themed on the efficiency and optimization of the entire food supply chain—transport, storage, packaging, freezing and refrigeration, inspection, traceability, and logistics DX... -
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FOOD STYLE Tokyo
FOOD STYLE JAPAN is one of Japan’s leading business-matching trade shows, covering a wide range of exhibit fields—foods and beverages, raw materials, equipment and systems, and services—for the restaurant, ready-made meal, and retail channels. From food manufacturers and processors, beverage and confectionery makers to equipment and packaging service companies... -
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Food Factory Week 2026
Food Factory Week is a specialized trade show gathering the latest technology and solutions in the food manufacturing and processing industry. A wide range of companies exhibit under the theme of solving on-site challenges such as food factory automation, labor-saving, DX promotion, hygiene management, quality assurance, and food loss reduction. At the venue, the efficiency of production lines... -
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Agri Week 2026 (J AGRI) | Guide to the venue, exhibiting, and highlights
Agri Week 2026 (J AGRI) is one of Japan’s largest comprehensive trade shows specialized in agriculture and livestock. In 2026 it is held at two venues—the spring Kyushu (Kumamoto) show and the autumn Tokyo (Makuhari) show—and Agri Week as a whole comprises five: “smart agriculture,” “agri materials,” “livestock materials,” “decarbonization/SDGs,” and “next-generation agricultural management”... -
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Food Development Exhibition 2026
The Food Development Exhibition 2026 is one of Japan’s top exhibitions, bringing together every field that supports food development—ingredients, technology, manufacturing, safety and hygiene, and food long-life. It runs October 14–16, 2026, at Tokyo Big Sight West Halls 1, 2, and 4 and the Atrium. It is organized by Informa... -
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FOOD Exhibition 2026
The FOOD Exhibition 2026 is one of Japan’s largest business trade shows for companies in the food and beverage industry. Food manufacturers, processors, beverage wholesalers and sellers, raw material and ingredient suppliers, and packaging and equipment service providers gather from across the country to present and do business around the latest trends, new products, and technical solutions...
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