Asian Paleolithic Association
Japanese Palaeolithic Research Association

Second Circular
The 12th Meeting of the Asian Paleolithic Association
Sendai, Japan, June 20th – 24th, 2025

Dear colleagues,
The 12th meeting of the Asian Paleolithic Association (APA) will be held in person from June 20th to 24th, 2025,
at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. The meeting will be organized by the Japanese Palaeolithic Research
Association (JPRA) on behalf of the presidium of the APA. The meeting will feature a symposium, conference
sessions, and a post-conference excursion. The title of the symposium is “Early Upper Palaeolithic in Asia:
Commonality and diversity after the IUP”. Several invited experts in this topic will provide podium presentations.
We are welcoming oral and poster presentations for conference sessions. Please note that the deadline for abstract
submission is December 15th, 2024. All participants need to register for the meeting by March 1st, 2025. Upon
request, the Organizing Committee sends a personal invitation for visa application. Please contact us(apajapan2025@gmail.com) as soon as possible, if you need an invitation letter.
We look forward to seeing you in Sendai, Japan, 2025.

With best regards,Organizing Committee
Hiroyuki SATO (President of APA, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Katsuhiro SANO (Program Committee, Tohoku University)
Masami IZUHO (Program Committee, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Kazuki MORISAKI (Program Committee, The University of Tokyo)
Yu HIRASAWA (Program Committee, University of East Asia)
Miho SUZUKI (Meiji University)
Yoshitaka KANOMATA (Tohoku University)
Masayoshi OBA (Yamagata Prefectural Center for Archaeological Research)
Akira IWASE (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Takashi TSUSUMI (President of JPRA, Meiji University)

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Conference schedule
June 20 (Friday)
15:30-17:30 Registration
18:00-19:30 Welcome Party
June 21 (Saturday)
09:00-12:00 Conference Session (1)12:00-13:30 Lunch (12:20 – 13:30 JPRA General Meeting)
13:30-18:00 Symposium“Early Upper Palaeolithic in Asia: Commonality and diversity after the IUP”
organized by Masami Izuho, Kazuki Morisaki, Yu Hirasawa, and Katsuhiro Sano
18:15-19:15 APA Board Meeting
June 22 (Sunday)
09:00-12:00 Conference Session (2)12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Poster Session
14:30-17:30 Conference Session (3)18:00-20:00 Farewell Party
June 23 (Monday)
08:30-18:00 Post-conference excursion
June 24 (Tuesday)
Departure

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Venue
Tohoku University
Multimedia Hall (Building A05, Room M206, Second floor), Kawauchi-Kita Campus
Kawauchi 41, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, Japan
Access: https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/map_directions.html

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Call for papers
We are welcoming oral and poster presentations for conference sessions. Official language of the meeting isEnglish. To provide oral or poster presentations at the meeting, please submit an abstract (250 – 500 words)
to the Program Committee (apajapan2025@gmail.com) using the Abstract Form by December 15th, 2024.
We kindly ask you to meet the deadline, as all abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Theoral presentations will be distributed to one of the appropriate conference sessions. Due to time constraints,
only a limited number of oral presentations will be accepted. Therefore, the Program Committee may ask
some authors to change from an oral to a poster presentation. Abstracts lacking in a clear description of thesignificance of the subject may not be accepted.

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Registration
All participants must submit the Registration Form to the Organizing Committee(apajapan2025@gmail.com) by March 1st, 2025. Registration fee will cover abstract book, conferencematerials, morning and afternoon refreshments, lunch (June 21st, 22nd), welcome party, and farewell party.
The registration fee should be paid at the registration desk. Please note that we accept only Japanese Yen in
cash and reduction of the registration fee for students will be accepted only when you show your student ID.
Registration fee for regular participants¥ 15,000

Registration fee for students¥ 10,000

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Post-conference excursion
We are preparing a post-conference excursion on June 23nd. We will visit a famous microblade site atKakuniyama and an Incipient Jomon cave site at Hinata, in Yamagata. Specialists will give a brief lecture
about the Kakuniyama and Hinata Cave at the sites. We will also visit the Ukitamu Fudoki no Oka
Archaeological Museum in Yamagata where rich lithic artifacts from early, middle to late Upper Palaeolithic
sites are stored. We will have a great opportunity to look at these Upper Palaeolithic artifacts at the Ukitamu
Fudoki no Oka Archaeological Museum. Participants who want to join the post-conference excursion needto check the box for the excursion participation in the Registration Form and send it to the Organizing
Committee (apajapan2025@gmail.com) by March 1st, 2025. The excursion fee should be paid with theregistration fee at the registration desk. Please note that we accept only Japanese Yen in cash and reductionof the excursion fee for students will be accepted only when you show your student ID.
Excursion fee for regular participants¥ 10,000

Excursion fee for students¥ 5,000

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Accommodation
There are plenty of hotels in city center of Sendai which are good locations accessing to the venue using theSendai Subway (https://www.kotsu.city.sendai.jp/english/subway/norikata.html); for examples, hotels
around subway stations of Sendai, Aoba-dori Ichibancho, and Omachi Nishi-koen (see the list below). We
highly recommend booking a room as soon as possible because recently lots of tourists visit Sendai and most
hotels will be fully booked soon.
Sendai Kokusai Hotelhttps://www.japanican.com/hotel/japan/sendai/sendai-kokusai-hotel
Washington Hotel Sendai
https://sendai.washington-hotels.jp
Daiwa Roynet Hotel Sendai-Ichibancho
https://www.daiwaroynet.jp/en/sendai-ichibancho/
Hotel Keihan Sendai
https://sendai.hotelkeihan.co.jp
Hotel Monte Hermana Sendai
https://www.monte-hermana.jp/en/sendai/
Almont Hotel Sendai
https://global.hokke.co.jp/almont-sendai/en/
APA Hotel Sendai Eki Itsutsubashi
https://www3.apahotel.com/hotel/hokkaido-tohoku/miyagi/sendaieki-itsutsubashi/

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Correspondence
Please contact us (apajapan2025@gmail.com) if you have any questions.