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Japan Expo

Japanese pop-culture convention in Paris

Japan Expo
Summary

Japanese pop-culture convention in Paris

FieldValue
nameJapan Expo
statusActive
genreJapanese culture
Interactive entertainment
venueParis-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre
locationVillepinte, Paris
countryFrance
first1999
last
organizerSEFA EVENT
JTS Group
attendance252,510 (2019)
website

Interactive entertainment JTS Group

the Japanese pop culture convention

Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture – the largest of its kind outside Japan – taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival – Kultima – and expanded to include some European and US pop culture as well. It is held yearly at the beginning of July for four days (usually from Thursday to Sunday) in the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre (the second-largest convention centre in France). The attendance has increased steadily over the years, with 2,400 visitors welcomed in the first edition in 1999 and more than 252,510 for the 2019 edition.

As with the Olympic Games and many other mass gatherings, the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

History

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The first exposition took place in 1999 at the ISC Paris Business School and welcomed 2,400 visitors, a number which has grown steadily. In 2002, Japan Expo was hosted at the Center of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT) in La Défense, Paris.

In 2005, the event was cancelled out of security concerns due to the large number of visitors. The exposition has since moved to the larger Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre.

In 2020 and 2021, the event was cancelled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Event history

DatesVenueAttendanceGuests
1999ISC Paris Business School2,400
June 24–25, 2000EPITA3,200
December 8–10, 2000Espace Champerret8,000
June 29 – July 1, 2001Espace Austerlitz12,000Eric Etcheverry, Brigitte Lecordier, Eric Legrand, Michel Barouille, Liliane Davis, Enrique, Jean-Pierre Savelli
July 5–7, 2002CNIT21,000url = http://www.japan-expo.com/index.php?page=109&lng=entitle = History of Guestspublisher = Japan Expoaccess-date = 2008-08-22archive-date = 2012-02-09archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120209135945/http://www.japan-expo.com/index.php?page=109&lng=enurl-status = live }}
July 5–6, 2003CNIT29,000url = http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/98title = Japan Expo 2003 Informationpublisher = AnimeCons.comaccess-date = 2008-08-22archive-date = 2016-03-11archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160311071717/http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/98url-status = live }}
July 2–4, 2004CNIT41,000Hisashi Abe, Masakazu Katsura, Mana, Andy Seto, Hiroshi Watari, and Kanemori Yoshinori
July 1–3, 2005Convention canceled
July 7–9, 2006Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center56,000url = http://www.japan-expo.com/en/menu_info/japan-expo-7-2006_77.htmtitle = Japan Expo 7 (2006)publisher = japan-expo.comaccess-date = 2010-05-26url-status = deadarchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713085840/http://www.japan-expo.com/en/menu_info/japan-expo-7-2006_77.htmarchive-date = 2011-07-13 }}
July 6–8, 2007Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center83,000Dio – Distraught Overlord, GARI, Halcali, Keiko Ichiguchi, Sachiko Kamimura, Masachika Kawata, Minae Matsukawa, Ichirou Mizuki, Junko Mizuno, Olivia Lufkin, Moon Kana, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hiroyuki Takei, Hironobu Takeshita, Syuji Takeya, Nana Kitade and Yoshiki
July 3–6, 2008Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center134,467Yutaka Izubuchi, Junko Kawakami, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Kazuo Koike, Setona Mizushiro, Go Nagai, Takeshi Obata, Oh! great, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Scandal, Ra:IN (Pata and Michiaki only{{cite web
July 2–5, 2009Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center165,501CLAMP, AKB48, Shinichirō Watanabe, Moriyasu Taniguchi, Mizuho Nishikubo, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Shiori Furukawa, Akemi Takada, Natsuki Takaya, Sakae Esuno, Daisuke Nishijima, Dai Satō, Hitoshi Ichimura, Tetsuya Nishio, Junko Takeuchi, Takami Akai, Akemi Hayashi, Kazuya Hatazawa, Showtaro Morikubo, Hikari Yamaguchi, Yuuichiro Hirata, Shintaro Akiyama, Ryousuke Katoh, Kanon Wakeshima, Benjamin (Zhang Lin), Ji Di (Zu Ya-Le), Aurore, Benjamin Reiss, Ludo Lullabi, School Food Punishment, Ra:IN
July 1–4, 2010Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center173,680Tsukasa Hojo, Noriyuki Iwadare, Morning Musume, An Nakahara, Masakazu Katsura, Hiro Mashima, Seikima-II, HITT & Guests, Jun Mochizuki, Suika, die!!die!!color!!!, Kazue Kato, Anipunk, Aya Kanno, Gibier du Mari, Yukari Tamura, X Japan (Toshi and Yoshiki only), Vivid
June 30 – July 3, 2011Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center192,000Hangry & Angry, Dream Morning Musume (Yoshizawa and Ishikawa), DJ Shiru's K-ble Jungle Akira Yamaoka, Nobuteru Yūki, Yumiko Igarashi, H. Naoto, PASSPO☆, Head Phones President
July 5–8, 2012Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center219,614Christielle Huet-Gomez, Alice Briére-Haquet, Samantha Bailly, Hideo Katsumata, Chiaki Miyamoto, Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Moto Hagio, Natsumi Aida, Mariya Nishiuchi, Hideo Baba, Katsuhiro Harada, Haruhiko Mikimoto, Masao Maruyama, Kamui, Sakizo, Triple Tails.S (Kana and Mio Shirai), Satsuki, Shiitake, Salagir, Jérôme Morel, Gogeta Jr., Marlène, Ibi, Furo and Mimi, Berrizo, Monsieur To, TroyB, Tetsuya Tsutsui, Professor Sakamoto, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Toshio Maeda, Ein Lee, Tetsuya Saruwatari, Anli Pollicino, Man With A Mission, Daizystripper, Makoto Shinkai, N0isY☆KidS, Rei Toma, Kohei Tanaka, Junko Iwao, Virgo a.k.a. Hammer, Hemenway, Momoiro Clover Z, Idoling!!!, Keiji Inafune, Flow, Naoki Urasawa, Top 16 French StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty players From 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series:France Nationals
July 4–7, 2013Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center232,876Tetsuo Hara, Masahiro Ikeno, Atsuhiro Iwakami, Shōji Kawamori, Kim Byung Jin, Keito Kōme, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Tomonori Ochikoshi, Aya Oda, Mamiya Takizaki, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Aki Akana, angela, °C-ute, Dear Loving, Deathgaze, Dempagumi.inc, J☆Dee’Z, Kao=S, Anam Kawashima, Kylee, May'n, Maywa Denki, Nightmare, Ninjaman Japan, Sansanar, Urbangarde, Tsubasa Masuwaka, Una, Hideo Baba, Katsuhiro Harada, Shinji Hashimoto, Yoshinori Kitase, Hisashi Koinuma, Tetsuya Nomura, Motomu Toriyama, Naoki Yoshida, Samantha Bailly, Jérôme Hamon, Shiitake, Ray Fujita, Laure Kié, Kikutaro, Katsuyuki Konishi, Natsuna, Kazma Sakamoto, Daisuke Sekimoto, Hiromu Takahashi, Junko Takeuchi
July 2–6, 2014Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center240,189Moumoon, Shoko Nakagawa, Berryz Kobo, °C-ute, Nogod, Kamui Fujiwara, Izumi Matsumoto
July 2–5, 2015Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center247,473Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, Pink Babies, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, K-ble Jungle
July 7–10, 2016Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center234,852Junichi Masuda, Hiro Mashima, Hironobu Kageyama, Psycho le Cému, Man with a Mission
July 6–9, 2017Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center238,241Kenji Kamiyama, Yoshiki Sakurai
July 5–8, 2018Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center247,919Buichi Terasawa, Shinichiro Watanabe, Nobuyoshi Habara, Atsushi Ohkubo, Daimaou Kosaka, Toshihiro Kawamoto, Imitoshi Yamane, Crystal Lake
July 4–7, 2019Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center252,510url = https://fancons.com/events/info/12853/japan-expo-2019title = Japan Expo 2019 Informationpublisher = Fancons.comaccess-date = 2019-06-17archive-date = 2019-06-18archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190618033825/https://fancons.com/events/info/12853/japan-expo-2019url-status = live }}
July 2–5, 2020Convention postponed to 2022
July 14–17, 2022Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center254,084Yuzu Natsumi, May'n, Sorgenti, Blue Encount, Yūsuke Kozaki, True, Tsukasa Hojo
July 13–16,Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre255,259{{Cite webtitle=2407 Mkt Plaquette Marketing Je 23 Fr
July 11–14,Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre200,716
July 3–6,Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition CentreJunji Ito, Yoko Takahashi, Kazuhiko Torishima, Toyotarou, Oh! Great, Broken by the Scream
July 9-12, 2026Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre
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Japan Expo in other cities

Other than the main convention in Paris, Japan Expo has expanded to 4 cities in 3 countries on 2 continents:

  • France
    • Japan Expo Centre in Orléans
    • Japan Expo Sud in Marseille
    • Chibi Japan Expo in Montreuil
  • Belgium
    • Japan Expo Belgium in Brussels
  • US
    • Japan Expo USA in Santa Clara, California

References

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