Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo (JFW), held for the first time last autumn, will be staged for the second time this March.We hope that the event will mature and become a fixture on the international fashion calendar.

The schedule will be even more compact than that of last season's event and while creating a system suited to press and buyers, the weekend will feature events in which consumers can participate, affirming the fact that JFW is about more than just trade.Through events including an exhibition of Jap an’s highly v alued tex tile's industry, JFW will show the strength of Japan's fashion sector, which is born of the amalgamation of "creation","artisanship", and "business."

Through this combination of events,we hope that the power to communicate information about fashion from Tokyo and establish Japanese brands on the international stage.

Although Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo is still in its infancy, we encourage you to come and exper ience the excitement surrounding this steadily evolving event. Finally, we would like to express our most profound gratitude for the generous support of all the businesses concerned and the tireless efforts of everybody involved in making it a success.

Akira Baba,
Chairman, Fashion Strategy Forum

Thanks to the kind cooperation of all those concerned, the second Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo has become a reality. With the aim of sustaining the prosperity of the Japanese fashion business, the first Japan Fashion Week i Tokyo (held in October last year) was a resounding success, thanks to a synergy of three elements of the Japanese fashion business: the creativity of our designers, the technological expertise of our textiles industry and a system of product delivery driven by the world's most demanding consumer market. We believe that through this news system we have established JFW as an event that can compete with the fashion weeks of other countries.

Rather than simply being a tradeonly event, we hope to make this, the second Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo, into a new type of event that sparks the interest of the general public and also allows them to take a participatory role.

We would like to express our most profound gratitude to all the businesses w have supported JFW everybody who has helped us to make it a success.

Masahiko Miyake,
Executive Committee Chairman, Japan
Fashion Week in Tokyo