Japan-related Events

The organisation behind Viencon, a cosplay-focused convention that takes place at Centerparcs de Limburgse Peel in The Netherlands, has now confirmed that the convention will now take place in the...

The eighth edition of the Dutch multidisciplinary underground festival Grauzone will take place later in May, on the 21st and 22nd, and will take place online. The organisation just announced...

Dutch anime convention Nishicon will be postponed to 2022. The convention has been postponed a few times since last year due to the ongoing situation of the pandemic. Nishicon was...

SHAG, the psychedelic jam band led by SUGIZO - composer, guitarist, violinist, arranger, producer and well-known member of LUNA SEA and X JAPAN - announced that they will be streaming...

For most people, it has been a while that they attended a show physically. Luckily there have been enough livestreams to enjoy, from live performances to recorded ones, experimental rock...

It was previously announced that the 2021 edition of Made in Asia at Brussels Expo would not take place in March, but later in the year. The month of September...

It has only been a short while ago when we reported on the postponement of the regular edition of AnimeCon and the news of a one-off Christmas event, but for...

Swedish gaming and cosplay festival NärCon has announced that they will once again postpone the summer edition of the event. The new dates are now 28 to 31 July 2022....

After it was announced that the 21st edition of Japan Expo Paris would not take place in 2021 but in 2022, it was mentioned that the exact dates would be...

The Dutch convention Abunai!, also known as Abunaicon, scheduled annually at the end of August at NH Koningshof Veldhoven, has shared a change of plans for the event that was...

It was not a total surprise, since metal band BRIDEAR did announce the return to Europe in their livestream last summer and this was confirmed by tour organisation Orion Live...

The organisation behind the Dutch convention AnimeCon, J-POP Foundation, shared news about their plans for the convention. For this year, there are two events planned, the regular edition of AnimeCon...

Akihito Okano of PORNOGRAFFITTI, who is currently pursuing his Walk To The Song In My Heart Project, has announced his first streaming live performance titled DISPATCHERS to be held on Sunday 11th...

After the postponement of Japan Expo Paris from 2020 to 2021, it is now official that the festival will not take place in 2021 and the event is now postponed...

The German convention Connichi will not take place in 2021. After deciding to skip 2020 for their event due to the pandemic and the regulations of the German government, they...

With the current ongoing situation with a pandemic -we are sadly one year in- there are still those who are thinking of organising an event in a safe way that...

Tour organisation ORIONlive came with a final decision about the JPOP Double Trouble tour, a European tour originally planned with pop musicians 2& (DOUBLE AND) and Mariko Takei. The tour...

The first cherry blossoms have been showing up in Japan, which means that the cherry blossom season has started. It is still not possible to visit Japan, so we have...

Shonen Knife have announced that they will return to the United Kingdom this Autumn to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the pop-punk band. The UK tour will start at the...

Graspop Metal Meeting will not have a 2021 edition. Just like last year, the Belgian metal festival will postpone its 25th edition due to the ongoing pandemic. It is now...

After a successful crowdfunding campaign, Visual Kei musician SUI was supposed to return to Paris on 11 April 2020 with his project David, to perform there for the second time...

Another year without the big festival Hellfest, it seems. The organisation behind the French metal festival announced that they will move the 15th-anniversary edition to next year, 2022. The organisation...

After a successful crowdfunding campaign for the album Oro Mike Mike May, ICHION (イチオン), consisting of Akira and Kyra, were able to release the album through HIGHFeeL. This album was...

We are still in a lockdown because of the ongoing pandemic which means there are few fun things to do outdoors and otherwise connected with many temporary rules to do...