Japan-related Events

For the annual summer exhibition at IBASHO, the Antwerp-based gallery has chosen for the theme Mizu, which translates from Japanese to English to water. As an island nation, Japan has...

The newest exhibition that can be visited at Amsterdam-based Nihon no hanga will show the series Japanese vocations of the Shōwa era in pictures by Wada Sanzo (1883-1967) and illustrates all...

The latest exhibition in Japan Museum SieboldHuis in Leiden comprises the work of Ogata Gekko. An exclusive presentation of his work, because it is the first time that a large...

Slowly but surely it seems that is it possible to plan tours for musicians and for Kikagaku Moyo (幾何学模様) that was enough reason to do this as well. The psychedelic...

In February, it became known that the 15th-anniversary edition of Hellfest would be postponed once again. Dates were set for 17, 18 and 19th of June 2022. Today, the organisation...

We will have to wait a little longer for the second edition of Italian idol festival Monster of Dolls. The organisation has been busy with the arrangement of a new...

Recently confirmed to take place in 2022, the music festival Primavera Sound in Barcelona has also shared the lineup for the two weekends in June 2022, 2-4 and 9-11). Many...

Making plans in 2021 is of course a bit of a gamble, but it looks like festival Le Guess Who? is positive given the organisation is busy setting up the...

After being confirmed for the 2020 and 2021 edition of the alternative music festival Jera On Air, it seems that we have to wait a bit longer before Crossfaith will...

The rockers of LUNA SEA will be streaming their 30th-anniversary concert from Tokyo Garden Theater. Following the concert at Saitama Super Arena in March earlier this year, Zaiko will be...

In the middle of cancellations and postponements, there is also some good news of tour announcements. There are not many, since the current ongoing situation of the pandemic is still...

The European fans of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. do have to wait a bit longer before the 'soul collective' will return to Europe for a tour....

The rockers of GLAY have embarked on a continuously live concert programme, titled THE ENTERTAINMENT STRIKES BACK, through streaming them in four months. They started in March and it will...

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...