I just missed an important event in my field (wine and spirits ) . I thought I had a good cover of networking opportunities and events through linkedin , localwineevent ,eventful ,upcoming yahoo , plus a couple of social media but I suddenly realized I didn t have anything specifically targeted at professional expo and fair. (linkedin is pure networking, the other are event in the broad sense of the word , which includes but does not focus on fair)
Do you know anything that would fit the bill ?

I'm also very interested. Same thing has happened to me twice now...

In the Tokyo area, there are two major expo sites (their homepage also list upcoming expos):

Tokyo Big Sight (in Odaiba): http://www.bigsight.jp/english/

Makuhari Messe (near Disneyland): http://www.m-messe.co.jp/en/index.html

Edited to add Tokyo International Forum (near Yurakucho Stn), where there are a few events: http://www.t-i-forum.co.jp/event/english/

A very quick google search result: http://eventful.com/tokyo/events/categories/food (not sure how accurate the listings are)

hth

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