Leading Global Brain Science Conference OHBM 2028 to Be Held in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 3, 2026--

Yokohama has won the bid to host the 2028 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM 2028), one of the world’s premier international conferences in brain science, further elevating the city’s presence as a global hub for international conventions and academic exchange. The meeting will take place at PACIFICO Yokohama from June 18–22 and will mark only the second time the meeting has been held in Japan.

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OHBM is a leading international academic society in the fields of brain imaging, neuroscience, and neurological-disease research. Its annual meeting attracts around 3,000 researchers, healthcare professionals, and industry representatives from around the world. OHBM 2028 will be organized in collaboration with the Japan Human Brain Mapping Society (JHBM, President: Yoshikazu Ugawa and Tetsuya Matsuda).

The Yokohama City Visitors Bureau (YCVB) and PACIFICO Yokohama supported JHBM’s successful bid in partnership with the City of Yokohama and the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), reflecting years of collaborative efforts among local hotels, cultural venues, restaurants, and other city stakeholders. Yokohama was selected for its convenient location; excellent reputation as a center of science, technology, and research; commitment to sustainability; and large convention complex, PACIFICO Yokohama, which is surrounded by many conference-support facilities.

Professor Hiromasa Takemura, chair of the JHBM OHBM2028 Bidding Committee and professor at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, commented: “JHBM has worked for many years to bring the OHBM Annual Meeting back to Japan, and we are truly delighted that Yokohama has been selected as the host city for OHBM 2028.”

Event Details
Event Name: 2028 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM 2028)
Dates: Sunday, June 18 to Thursday, June 22, 2028
Venue: PACIFICO Yokohama
Expected Attendance: Approximately 3,000 on-site participants, including around 2,500 from outside Japan
Organizer: Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

About the Yokohama City Visitors Bureau: The role of the YCVB is to employ the wealth of resources existing in the City of Yokohama and Kanagawa Prefecture to promote the region as an ideal destination for both tourists and international conventions. In this way, the YCVB is contributing to the reinvigoration of the City of Yokohama and surrounding areas, and the advancement of its globalization.

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. (AP) — A man holding hostages inside a building in California that houses a bank and a school district office has been shot and killed by the FBI, police said Wednesday.

All the hostages are free and none was harmed, the Bakersfield Police Department said in a statement.

The suspect was killed in “an officer-involved shooting involving Federal Bureau of Investigation personnel,” the department said. The standoff in downtown Bakersfield ended about 12 hours after police were called to the building, police said.

The standoff began Tuesday afternoon when officers responded to a call of a bomb threat at the Chase Bank building, a four-story office building with dark-tinted glass windows all around. Bakersfield Police said the man barricaded himself inside with several people. Two hostages were released Tuesday after negotiations with authorities.

A spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase said the bank branch is on the ground floor.

Nearby buildings, including City Hall and the police headquarters that are just a block away, were evacuated and some roads were temporarily closed during the hostage situation. Bakersfield, a city of about 380,000 residents, is the seat of largely rural Kern County and is about 100 miles (160 kms) northeast of Los Angeles.

Officers established a perimeter around the area and warned the public to stay away. The police department’s crisis negotiation team had been in contact with the suspect by telephone.

“We have every single resource at our disposal out here to bring this to the safest resolution possible,” Bakersfield police Sgt. Eric Celedon said Tuesday.

Jacob Davidson, a livestreamer known as Dad’s Gone Live, was a block from the bank at his family’s tattoo shop when he started getting calls about the bomb threat.

“I went into the bank’s parking garage and watched the cops enter the back of the bank. This is the biggest police presence I’ve ever seen in this town,” Davidson said.

His livestream captured through a window in the building a woman rocking back and forth Tuesday night before crouching below the window. Later, two hands could be seen waving.

FBI agents respond after a man barricaded himself inside a building with hostages Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo/David Dennis)

Family members, wait a block away from a bank building where a man barricaded himself inside with hostages, Tuesday, June 3, 2026 in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo/Erick Madrid)

FBI agents respond after a man barricaded himself inside a building with hostages Tuesday, June 2, 2026, in Bakersfield, Calif. (AP Photo/David Dennis)