Japan-related Events

Le Guess Who? starts today and a couple of Japanese musicians will perform at this celebration of sound. This year is the 12th edition of the festival. From 8 November...

MAN WITH A MISSION surprised fans with the news that they will be coming to the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Russia for their Chasing The Horizon tour. The tour...

From the last day of October will singer-songwriter Miho Hatori (羽鳥 美保) tour Europe to promote her solo project New Optimism.  Miho Hatori is known as the co-founder poly pop...

Roadburn Festival has announced 25 bands for the upcoming festival in 2019, one of the names was the instrumental rock group MONO. Among the other act announcements were Myrkur, Marissa...

HYPER JAPAN will have a Winter edition from 16 November till 18 November at Olympia London. Last year was a Christmas edition, this year the upcoming Winter will be celebrated...

To promote his latest release REBOOT, SATSUKI goes back to Europe for some shows. The tour, that is part 2 of the REBOOT tour and organised by Snakez Agency, is...

Suzuki Junzo is coming back to Europe with a tour and a few new releases, The Magus and 静かな部屋で足音は (Shizuka Na Heya De Ashioto Ha).  The tour through mainland Europe...

KYAS ART SALON will present the first solo exhibition of Kazuaki Tanahashi in The Netherlands. For this exhibition, Tanahashi will show his latest collection of one-stroke paintings for which he...

Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in November the Japanese Print Collection of Nihon no Hanga will be open with the new exhibition with animals as the main subject. Animals have...

Following the Japan Festival, on 4 November in Amstelveen, Platform organizes C | Kunstuitleen Amstelveen the exhibition with Tsukiji as the subject. During the exhibition, you can view work by...

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...