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Tokyo International Anime Fair 2011 Cancelled

The official website of the Tokyo International Anime Fair (earthquake (Tōhoku Chihō Taiheiyō-oki Jishin) and tsunami. According to the announcement, the event's executive committee decided to cancel in consideration of the safety of the participants and attendees with uncertain power supplies and traffic accessibility. The event's staff apologized for the inconvenience caused by the decision.

TAF takes place annually at the franchise), Tokyo Big Sight suffered unspecified damage during the earthquake. TAF 2011 was originally scheduled to hold industry-only days on March 24-25, and general public days on March 26-27.

This year's event became part of a controversy due to Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Shintaro Ishihara is a major advocate of the amended Healthy Development Ordinance and the head of the executive committee for the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF).

The media company establish a new convention, the Anime Contents Expo, which was set to take place the same weekend at the time of this writing.

The Los Angeles Times newspaper reports that many airlines are offering refunds or waived ticket change fees for those whose travel plans have already been disrupted by the earthquake, or those who planned to travel through March 18.

Update: Junichi Suwabe reported on Wednesday that the Anime Contents Expo (ACE) event has been cancelled. The organizers of the March 26-27 event have not made an official announcement. Suwabe was slated to record an episode of the radio program for the Starry Sky franchise on March 27 at ACE in Chiba Prefecture east of Tokyo.