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Vocalist haru will perform special solo concerts in several cities throughout Europe at the end of summer 2017 to debut music from his band universe. There are shows planned in...

Esprit D'Air announced that they will go on a UK tour to celebrate the release of their upcoming album Constellations.  All tour dates are planned for next year February. For...

In celebration of their 25th anniversary, Boris will do a European tour and release a new album! The dates have been announced by Sargent House Europe. The tour will start...

The hardcore band ENDZWECK will come this summer and will tour alongside Swedish screamo/hardore band NO OMEGA. The tour will be in August, and will mostly take place in Germany....

Suzuki Junzo is coming back to Europe to promote his new releases If I Die Before I Wake and La Course du lievre a travers les champs. The tour will...

Bad news for the fans who are waiting for the arrival of the visual kei band Matenrou Opera in Europe. Yesterday afternoon the band posted a message in Japanese about...

After a successful tour of Japan in 2016, & the release of their 1st CD collaboration "Spatial Roots", Geoff Leigh (UK) - soprano sax, flutes, voice, small percussion, laptop processing,...

This summer Japan Museum SieboldHuis will host approximately three hundred traditional wooden dolls from Japan. These pretty 'kokeshi', with their brightly painted clothes and expressive faces, were all hand-made in...

Japan Museum SieboldHuis will present a new photo exhibition from Friday, June 16, this time landscape photographer Shibata Toshio's work will be shown at the museum. This renowned landscape photographer...

Idol group Juice=Juice announced they'd be going on a world tour in April. Meanwhile, tour organization 33 Degrees has announced the European dates. The world tour goes by the name...

Recently word came out that S!N has joined forces with tour organization and label HIGHFeeL for his first European tour. Earlier today the dates for this tour were announced. It...

It's weird that a year can go by so fast. Exactly a year ago around this time, I was several hours up in the sky on my way to Tokyo:...

Lounging on a terrace, going swimming and of course brand new anime series! It's almost summer and if you're resting in the shade for a while or headed to your...

Since the opening of IBASHO in March 2015 we have been exposed to so much photographic talent coming from Japan, that we have decided to start curating annual group exhibitions...

In March it got announced that the idol unit NECRONOMIDOL had plans to perform in Europe. It wasn't known if it would be only a show or a tour, but...

The doom band Church of Misery let us know about their comeback end of April and added three more band members next to the fixed member and founder, bassist Tatsu....

Alternative rockband tricot will return to Europe for a fourth tour. Back in 2016 the band already had a big tour throughout Europe, unfortunately skipping both Belgium and the Netherlands....

AVO Magazine has existed for 14 years this month! Of course, that needs to be celebrated and so I decided to contribute with these delicious and cute AVO cupcakes. As...

For those who follow the Facebook event of Nishicon 2018, were surprised with an interesting message: The convention has changed the dates of the forthcoming edition of Winter Wonderland. Nishicon...

It's almost time for spring and of course some new anime series and movies again. Below you’ll find a list of 10 titles we’re looking forward to, keeping to the...

The discovery of PLASTICZOOMS did not happen for me up until 2013, but this band has built up a proper state of the art in their ten-year existence. It all...

I occasionally get questions from people who want to know what's going on backstage. What exactly are the things that happen backstage, the ones people from the outside world will...

Have you always wanted to move to Japan? Then today is your lucky day! Because the ministry has decided to make it easier to become permanent residents of Japan. Station...

Japan is in a crisis of unemployment accompanied by school boycotting students. The government has therefore made a law; the BR-act, also known as Battle Royale. Class 3-B is kidnapped...