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The 2005 Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting
12 - 15 September 2005
Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima

General Information
The 2005Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting will take place from 12 to 15 September, 2005, in Hiroshima City, at the Hiroshima Prince Hotel,
23-1, Motoujina-machi
Minami-ku, Hiroshima-shi, Hiroshima 734-8543, Japan.
Phone: 81-82-256-1111
Fax: 81-82-256-1134

Key dates
(1) Application for oral presentation: 16 May -- 13 June, 2005.
You may either apply by using the web application format (if you could manage Japanese), which is a preferred form,
or, you may apply by sending an email to taikai2005@jfssa.jp

(2) Abstract: July 11, 2005.

Organized sessions

Special lectures

Accommodation
Special conference rates are available at the Hiroshima Prince Hotel

Getting to Hiroshima

• By air
  • Flight Information
    • International Flight Schedule: Seoul, Dalian, Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Taipei, Guam
    • International Connecting Schedule: Narita
    • International Chart Flights:Hong Kong, Hawaii, Xian, Guilin, Dunhuang, Chejudo, Vladivostok
  • Hiroshima Airport
• By train

  • From By Nozomi Shinkansen By Hikari Shinkansen JR Tokyo Station 3 hours 55 minutes 4 hours 50 minutes JR Nagoya Station 2 hours 10 minutes 2 hours 50 minutes JR Shin-Osaka Station 1 hour 15 minutes 1 hour 45 minutes

  • West Japan Railway Company

Getting to the Prince Hotel

• From JR Hiroshima Station
  • Taxi: about 20 minutes, \2,300
  • Bus: No. 21-2 from JR Hiroshima Station, stops in front of the hotel
• From Hiroshima Airport
  • Taxi: about 60 minutes
  • Recommend using Limousine Services & Connections to JR Hiroshima Station (fair \1,530) and then take city bus to the Hotel.

Tourist information

• World Cultural Heritage, Itsukushima Shrine, Miyajima Island, a divine island of ancient history and legend, located in beautiful islets-studded Seto Island Sea.
  • Since ancient times, Miyajima has been regarded as one of the "Three Most Beautiful Spots" of Japan, and as a part of the Seto Inland Sea National Park, it has received several distinctions, such as a place of extraordinary scenic beauty, exceptional history, a scenic zone, and a natural monument. The virgin forests neighboring Mt. Misen are representative of the lush greenery and abundance of nature which still covers the entire island even now.
  • slide show
  • Getting there: 23 minutes by boat from near the Prince Hotel.
• Peace Memorial Park , World Heritage A-Bomb Dome
  • The area now known as Peace Memorial Park was previously an urban district called Nakajima. It is estimated that at the time of the atomic bombing, about 6,500 people lived in the seven cho (neighborhood units) in the Nakajima district. On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb in history exploded directly over this area. In addition to the usual inhabitants, thousands of volunteer army corps members and mobilized students were in the area demolishing buildings for a fire lane. Nearly all of these lives were snuffed out as the entire district vanished instantly. On August 6, 1949, with enactment of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law, it was decided that the entire Nakajima District would be devoted to "peace memorial facilities" .The park covers approximately 122,100 square meters. It was designed by Kenzo Tange, a professor at Tokyo University, and three others, whose proposal was selected through a design competition that drew 145 proposals.
  • The A-Bomb Dome was previously the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall, designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel and constructed in 1915. When the atomic bomb exploded, it ravaged the building instantly. Heat blazing from above consumed the entire building, killing everyone in it. Because the blast attacked the building from virtually straight overhead, some walls escaped total collapse. Along with the wire framework of the dome, these form the shape that has become a symbol. At some point it became known as the "A-bomb Dome."In December 1996 the A-bomb Dome was registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List based on the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
  • Getting there: 15 minutes by car from the Prince Hotel
• Hiroshima Castle
  • At the time of construction in 1589, Hiroshima Castle was the largest in western Japan, occupying an area many times its present size. Know as the "carp castle", it was built by the feudal lord Terumoto Mori. In 1931, the castle was designated as a national treasure. After its destruction in the atomic bomb blast of 1945, it was reconstructed in 1958 from modern ferro-concrete.  
  • Operating hour: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm (Apr. to Sep.), 9:00 am - 4:40 pm (Oct. to Mar.). Tel: (082)221-7512.
  • Getting there: 15 minutes by car from the Prince Hotel. Or, from Hiroshima Station, take #1 or #6 bus to Kamiya-cho.
  • More Japanese Castles
• Other sightseeing and day trip information
• Hot in Japan & world: EXPO 2005,Nagoya, Aichi.

Links of Interest

• Hiroshima Prince Hotel
• Hiroshima City
• Hiroshima Airport
• West Japan Railway Company
• Rakuten Travel, a web site for hotel reservation in Japan

Sponsoring Japanese Statistical Societies

The 2005Japanese Joint Statistical Meeting is sponsored by

Japanese Federation of Statistical Science Associations
The Japan Statistical Society
Japanese Society Applied Statistics
The Biometric Society of Japan

with cooperation from
Japanese Classification Society
The Behaviormetric Society of Japan
Japanese Society of Computational Statistics