Japan-related Events

Not long to go until Japan Festival 2018 will take place in Amstelveen. The festival started as a biennial event and for a few years, it will take every year....

Currently on tour through Europe to promote their newest album, wasteland, is the legendary hardcore blue punk trio King Brothers (キング・ブラザーズ). Known as the most dangerous act in Japan, as...

After the successful run of the exhibition Cool Japan at Museum Volkenkunde last year, it was decided to give it a sequel. The exhibition is now revamped and at a...

The sludge doom band GUEVNNA is ready to travel all the way from Tokyo to Europe for a tour this Winter, starting from 15 November. Shows will take place in...

To promote the release of the split EP HOUR GLASS, with Finnish jazz singer Irina, the punk rock duo RIP VAN WINKLE will tour Europe from 11 October. During the...

In 2017 the Visual Kei metal band DEVILOOF announced the plans for a European tour in 2018, but today the band announced that the plans are moved to 2019. With...

To promote the new release, Electric Dream Ecstasy, the psychedelic band Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. will tour Europe once again. The band will kick off the...

It is almost an established tradition: rock band ONE OK ROCK announced a European tour for December. The tour will start on 5 December in London, in total the band...

At this very moment the works of Ryoji Ikeda, a visual artist and a key figure in the world of electronic music, can be seen and heard in an exhibition...

After touring Europe in March of this year, it has been announced that G.L.A.M.S, the multidisciplinary art project of singer-songwriter MIKARU, will be back in Europe coming November. REALive, the...

In celebration of the new full-length album TO LIVE IS TO DIE, TO DIE IS TO LIVE, the hardcore/punk/metal band PALM will tour Europe and the United Kingdom. With this...

With one week to go, let's get into the latest details for AVO J-Music Festival! The festival will take place on Saturday 15 September at Zuiderparktheater in The Hague. Two...

Foam presents from 7 September till 12 December a large-scale retrospective with original prints from photographer Masahisa Fukase, from the Masahisa Fukase Archives in Tokyo. In addition to his seminal...

To promote their new album On the grass, the psychedelic band Sundays & Cybele will tour Europe starting from 30 October till 1 December, with shows in 8 countries. On...

A day before the start of CAMERA JAPAN Rotterdam at LantarenVenster, on Wednesday 26 September, the organisation of CAMERA JAPAN Festival will present a multidisciplinary evening at WORM in the...

During its thirteenth edition, the CAMERA JAPAN Festival serves its 8000+ visitors with over 40 recent Japanese Hilm titles, ranging from arthouse drama to crowd-pleasing blockbusters and comedy to out-of-bounds...

The all-female power metal band LOVEBITES just left Europe after a few shows at two big European festivals, Wacken Open Air and Bloodstock, and now a new visit to the...

A new edition of Abunai! is around the corner. With Tales of Kitsunia as a subtitle, the convention will start from 24 August till 26 August at NH Hotel Koningshof...

In a few days, the tribal oriental dreamy psych band KUUNATIC will start touring the United Kingdom for the second time. The trio will be playing 16 shows including a...

Metal band GYZE is currently in Europe for their The Rising Dragon Europe Tour 2018. The tour started on Saturday 11 August in Spain at Leyendas Del Rock. After the...

After announcing a new album, titled Mutation (突然変異) in Japan and NEKOKABURI for the European release via JPU Records, and releasing a new music video to promote the upcoming album,...

During the United Kingdom and Ireland leg of the coming World Tour of British multinational indie pop band Superorganism, the NEO Cute girls group CHAI will tour as a support...

It has been two years ago that instrumental rock band MONO came to Europe for a tour, but you can expect them in Europe coming October. The band will start...

A few months ago the brutal orchestra Vampillia performed in Europe, with shows at for example Roadburn 2018. Coming September and October Vampillia will be supporting the French post-metal band...