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I am aware of the word for organizing a cabinet, organizing a room, but what
is the word when one wants to say that a person organized an event, as in a
person arranging an event or a gathering?
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How do I say organize in Japanese as in organize an event?
企画する would be a good one I think.
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This is an interesting question for me as I came across the same problem
several times in the past (that is, realized that in several occasion I was
not sure how to properly translate "organize" referred to an event).

After some research and asking around a little bit, probably for the specific
case of an "event" I learned that the best match would be 計画{けいかく}する。

To make sure I remembered correctly I run simple google search for
"イベントを計画する". It returned 50.100 results, which makes that likely (very
empirically speaking) to be a correct expression.

I also checked ib weblio for sample sentences for
[organize](http://ejje.weblio.jp/sentence/content/Organize) and indeed there
is one example using 計画する just to refer to a generic event.

In general, however, it is interesting to see how a general word such as
"organize" in English might not have a single translation. Rather, the choice
for a correct word to translate "organize" seems to depend very much on what
is that you have to organize.

A few example are 整理{せいり}する (quite general, for data, questions, thoughts
etc), 組織{そしき}する (generally related to political things, like parties, agencies
etc), as well as a simple 準備{じゅんび}する that is very widely used as well (after
all "prepare" and "organize" have quite a similar meaning).

Edit: In particular, since I noticed that you also mentioned a "gathering", in
that case also 催{もよお}す and 主催{しゅさい}する are widely used.
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