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Venue

Tohoku Gakuin University (Itsutsubashi Campus) 

3-1 Shimizukoji, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 984-8588, Japan

Access
 Doors open : 8:00 AM

Oshikawa Memorial Hall 1F : Cafeteria

Oshikawa Memorial Hall 2F : Room 1

Lecture Hall 2F : Reception (Start: 8:30 AM)

Lecture Hall 3F : Cloakroom

Lecture Hall 4F : Room 2-5, Business Exhibition, Break Area

Lecture Hall 5F : Room 6-10, Business Exhibition, Break Area

Lecture Hall 6F : poster presentations, Business Exhibition

Lecture Hall 7F : Room 11-12, Parent-Child Rest Area, Meeting Room(Reservation required)

Schneder Memorial Tower : Dining Area

Note: Please refer to the Venue Guide (available in PDF and distributed on-site) for a detailed floor map.

Meeting Style

The Convention will be held in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and online participation.

Programs

How to Participate In-Person

＜Registration＞

All participants must register and pay the fee in advance. On-site registration and payment are not available. Please complete your registration and payment online before arriving at the venue. You can register even during the exhibition period.

＜Participation＞

1. Please log in to your Confit account and print out the participation badge (it will be available for printing from late August). If you forgot the printed badge, please inquire at the reception desk.
2. Please place your participation badge in the designated badge holder and wear it visibly at all times during the convention.

Note: The QR code for the “JPA Anti-Harassment Statement” is on the participation badge. After reading the Statement, please check the corresponding box.

＜Onsite Procedures＞

1. If you have brought your own badge, you will receive a badge holder at the venue.
2. If you do not have your printed badge, please visit the Reception Desk located at Lecture Hall 2F to receive a new badge.
3. If you are an invited guest, please visit the Reception Desk located at Lecture Hall 2F to receive your badge.

＜Accompanying Persons＞

1. The following individuals may attend the convention as an accompanying person by submitting an application in advance. The participation fee will be waived:
   
   • Family members of participants who are junior high school students or younger
   • Individuals assisting participants withdisability, injury, illness, pregnancy, etc.
   • Parents or guardians of minor participants.
   • Any other person approved by the Convention’s Organizing Committee
2. If you wish to apply to be an accompanying person, please register in advance using the form below. 
   [https://forms.gle/yKTwgLFWH69wLn6F8]
3. Accompanying persons should check in at the Reception Desk (Lecture Hall 2F) on the day of the Convention to  receive a participation badge.
4. The accompanying person may enter the venue where the main attendee participates or makes a presentation, but they are not permitted to participate in the Q&A or discussions.

＜About the venue＞

1. Please be mindful of the rights of others such as portrait rights and copyrights of presented materials. Recording audio or video, and taking photographs during a presentation is expressly prohibited without prior consent from the presenter. The Organizing Committee and the Secretariat of the event will be filming and taking photographs in the event halls.
2. For lunch, please use the cafeteria or convenience store on campus, or nearby restaurants. You are welcome to eat at the cafeteria and dining area. Please refrain from eating in the Lecture Hall.
3. Please use the designated trash cans for the convention. Do not use the university's regular trash cans.
4. No paging service will be provided within the venue.
5. Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) will be available at the venue. Please check “Wireless Connection (Wi-Fi) Information” for details. *Wireless LAN connections are prone to instability due to the large number of users and is not suitable for online meeting connections such as Zoom. Bringing your own router is recommended.
6. On-campus parking lots and bicycle parking areas are not available for participants.
7. Smoking is prohibited in the venue.
8. Unauthorized sales or commercial advertisements are forbidden.
9. Please be aware that some lectures will be recorded and may be made publicly available  as an archive at a later date at the discretion of the organizer. 

＜Childcare facility＞(Applications are now closed)

Free childcare will be provided for participants during the Convention period by reservation only.  Applications will be accepted from noon on Friday, July 18, until 17:00 on Thursday, July 31, 2025. For more details, please refer to “Information on childcare facility”.

＜Networking Event＞

A networking event will be held at the "DUCCA-sendai" from 18:30 to 20:30 on September 6 (Saturday), the second day of the Convention. For details, please refer to the "Networking Event".

How to participate online

Online participants can view and watch programs on the Program page after logging into the Online Program.
Abstracts of presentations, PDF files of papers and digital posters for poster presentations will be available on Monday, August 25.
Videos of on-demand presentations will be available on Friday, September 5.

＜Login＞

To log in to the conference website, use your Confit account login information.
You will be able to log in after the registration fee has been paid.

＜Viewing＞

【On-demand streaming】
You can view PDF files, digital posters, and videos of lectures and symposia anytime during the convention and for an extended period afterward. Videos will be uploaded as they become available.

＜Question and Answer Session＞

1.  On-demand presentations will have a questions and answers (Q&A) section where you can ask presenters questions using a comment box on each presentation's page.
2.  The Q&A session will be open during the Convention (from Friday, September 5 to Sunday, September 7). The comment box will remain available until Friday, October 31.  Please note that that presenters may not be able to reply to every question.

General information (for both in-person and online participants)

＜Updates about the Convention＞

Information will be provided to participants through the following channels:.

• 89th Annual Convention website (the current page)  https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jpa2025
• The 89th Annual Convention Official X  https://x.com/89_JPA2025
• Email sent to all participants

＜Reasonable Accommodations＞

The convention is committed to ensuring that all participants are respected and that information is accessible to everyone, regardless of disability.

As part of this effort, we will indicate in the program when on-demand videos have subtitles. We also ask all presenters to use clear, textual information in their screen-sharing materials and to be mindful of color schemes to enhance accessibility.

＜Handouts＞

1. The convention program will not be printed as a booklet. For more information about the program, please refer to the Annual Convention’s webpage.
2. A floor plan will be distributed at the venue. The floor plan includes the maps for the Exhibition, event halls, and schedules of real-time events.
3. The Proceedings of the Annual Convention will be published after the Convention. The date and the price of the publication will be sent out to participants and JPA members once these become available.

＜Receipts for Participation Fee, Participation Badge (Certificate of Participation), and Certificate of Presentation＞

1. Receipts for the participation fee can be downloaded from your Confit account.
2. The participation badge can be downloaded from your Confit account from late August.
   The participation certificate can also be downloaded together with the participation badge.
3. If you wish to receive a certificate of presentation, please contact the JPA Office at jpa@psych.or.jp with the following information:
   • Full name
   • Type of presentation
   • Presentation No. and title