Travel Journal
You may have had the chance to take a trip to Japan. Whether it was recently or a long time ago, tell us about it!
For this contest, we call for your memories… Whether you are a fan, some passer-by or a club member participating in the festival life, tell us about your experience in Japan, made of encounters, surprises and passion!
Any story is welcome!
Language study program, business trip, tourism in Kansai, exploration of the Tokyo jungle, memories of Nagano’s Olympic Games in 1998 or the exhaustive discovery of Okinawa’s local restaurants: we’re interested in everything because everything is fascinating!
How to participate?
The idea is simple but doing it is probably less simple! Using your experience of Japan, you are invited to send us a notebook, a photo album or any display book, of the A4 size, including a series of photos and text, telling about your travel adventures.
With your travel journal, you must include, on a separate sheet, a declaration of good faith asserting that the photos are yours and that the festival Japan Expo is allowed to use them within the frame of this Travel Journal Contest.
To choose the winners, the quality of the photos (originality, framing, relevance, etc.), the quality of the text (fascinating, not too long, and with good spelling!) will be considered as well as the general presentation: drawings, decorations and sketches are welcome.
The style is free, whether you are in the mood for poetry, literature or mere information… the only firm request is imagination!
Information
Digital travel journals (PDF, blogs, etc.) are not allowed, it has to be an object you can hold in your hands and leaf through. The journal has to be sent by mail.
Subject: Japan Travel Journal
Constraints: Set your imagination free! Yet the journal has to include your own photos as well as written texts.
Support: any support, whether soft or hard paper, with or without transparent plastic folders, in an A4 size (notebook, display book, photo album, personal creation, etc.)
Participation by mail
Send your work to the following address:
Concours Carnet de Voyage
14 place Georges POMPIDOU
93160 Noisy-le-Grand - FRANCE
Don’t forget to put a note with your name, first name, age, e-mail address, phone number, mail address and the declaration of good faith about your photos.
End of the contest: the journals sent after June 5th, 2010, considering the postmark, won’t enter the contest.
Prize and Prizegiving
The 3 winners get a free one day entrance ticket to Japan Expo 11th Impact for the day they choose, sent by mail after the end of the contest, as well as a DVD set, to be withdrawn at the festival at the Contest Point on presenting an ID document. Attention, the DVD sets won’t be sent by mail!
Winners
The winners are the only two people who sent us travel journals!
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Morgane LE DORZE
Valéry VERGER
Congratulations and thanks a lot for these beautiful Journals we read with pleasure! Free entrances will be sent very soon. Don't forget your identity card to have your other prize at the Contest Point (Point Concours in French).
Frequetly Asked Questions
Q.: Can I print my photos on my personal printer?
A.: Of course, any printing technique (personal or professional, on regular paper or photo paper) is allowed. Obviously the better the printing, the better the quality!
Q.: Are black and white photos allowed?
A.: Whether black and white or color, it’s your choice, the most important being the final result. Yet let’s admit that black and white Sakura in bloom would be a shame! ^^
Q.: Do text have to be typed or hand written?
A.: It’s up to you! Attention, it may totally change the aspect of your travel journal!
Q.: Can I stick things in my travel journal, like dried flowers?
A.: Of course, and we invite you to do so! You may decorate your journal but it is not the main element of selection, even if it is important too!
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