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Hyper Japan
HYPER JAPAN is the largest exhibition celebrating Japanese culture to be held in the UK. Organized by Cross Media Ltd., it was first held in London 2010 and since 2014 has taken place twice a year, in July and November. It takes place in Olympia, London. Overview Centred on Japanese cuisine and popular culture such as gaming, manga, anime and music, the event introduces a wide range of Japanese culture, encompassing technology, fashion, traditional crafts. The venue is divided into three main areas; the stage area, the exhibition area and the experience area. The summer and winter events have different themes. The theme of the summer event is a festival of popular culture, while the winter event is a shopping and merchandising event centred around Christmas shopping. HYPER JAPAN was developed in 2010, the brainchild of Cross Media Ltd.’s President and Representative Director Mr. Kazuhiro Marumo, as a fusion of Japanese cuisine, which is increasingly popular in the UK, and ...
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Events
Event may refer to: Gatherings of people * Ceremony, an event of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion * Convention (meeting), a gathering of individuals engaged in some common interest * Event management, the organization of events * Festival, an event that celebrates some unique aspect of a community * Happening, a type of artistic performance * Media event, an event created for publicity * Party, a social, recreational or corporate events held * Sporting event, at which athletic competition takes place * Virtual event, a gathering of individuals within a virtual environment Science, technology, and mathematics * Event (computing), a software message indicating that something has happened, such as a keystroke or mouse click * Event (philosophy), an object in time, or an instantiation of a property in an object * Event (probability theory), a set of outcomes to which a probability is assigned * Event (relativity), a point in space at an instant in time, i.e. a lo ...
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Association Of Japanese Animations
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA; , ) is an industry group consisting of 52 affiliate animation production companies. AJA's duties AJA's scope of duties are to work on various issues concerning the Japanese animation industry, which most members are a part of. Most of AJA's members are small to medium-sized companies, hence the need for AJA to unite together to overcome some of the bigger problems, such as infringement of intellectual properties, rampant piracy and illegal file sharing has risen following the introduction and widespread adoption of P2P networking software. Besides the aforementioned, AJA also serves to resolve conflicts, and provide improvements of the general production environment, talents and oversea operations. AJA also releases annual reports on the anime industry. According to the 2017 report, overseas markets expanded 1.5 times the previous year to a record high. In terms of contracts, China placed first while the United States dropped t ...
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Satoshi Miki
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has directed and written many films from 1981 to present day. Works Films Television References External links * 1961 births Living people Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters Keio University alumni {{Japan-film-bio-stub ...
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Takashi Kondo
is a masculine Japanese given name. Written forms The name Takashi can have multiple different meanings depending on which kanji is used to write it. Possible forms of the name include: *隆 - "prosperous noble" *喬士 - "high, boasting, samurai, gentleman" *崇史 - "adore, revere, chronicler, history" *孝 - "filial piety, serve parents" *貴志 *敬 Takashi can also be written in hiragana and/or katakana: *タカシ (katakana) *たかし (hiragana) People with the name * Takashi Abe (阿部 隆, born 1967), Japanese shogi player *, Japanese rugby union player * Takashi Amano (天野 尚, 1954–2015), Japanese photographer, aquarist and designer * Takashi Aonishi (青西 高嗣), Japanese music artist * Takashi Asahina (朝比奈 隆, 1908–2001), Japanese conductor *, Japanese volleyball player * Takashi Fujii (藤井 隆, born 1972), Japanese singer and comedian * Takashi Hagino (萩野 崇, born 1973), Japanese actor * Takashi Hara (原 敬, 1856–1921), Japanese politi ...
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Naoyoshi Shiotani
is a Japanese director who was worked into multiple works from the studio Production I.G. He is famous for directing all ''Psycho-Pass'' works. He was voted the third director in ''Newtype'' anime awards. Biography As a child, Shiotani was a fan of animation and enjoyed drawing. His favorite works were Studio Ghibli film, like Hayao Miyazaki's ''My Neighbor Totoro'' and ''Kiki's Delivery Service''. He was also a fan of Production I.G. through their franchises ''Ghost in the Shell'' and ''Patlabor''. He was also a fan of live-action films including Blade Runner, '' Minority Report'', ''Gattaca'', '' Fifth Element'', ''Seven'', ''Brazil'' and the ''Millennium'' trilogy. Upon joining Production I.G., Shiotani became interested in combining traditional animation with cgi animation for his works, most notably '' Oblivion Island''. Shiotani's first directed work was the film '' Tokyo Marble Chocolate'' which he made for a young a demographic by giving it the theme of a family. He the ...
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Mitsuhisa Ishikawa
is a Japanese anime producer and planner, as well as the co-founder and current chairman of the anime studio Production I.G. Career Mitsuhisa Ishikawa was an executive at Bee Train from 1997 to 2006, Ishikawa acted as executive producer for the anime sequence ''The Origin of Ren'' in ''Kill Bill'', and was the producer of the first two ''Ghost in the Shell'' films. In 2005, Ishikawa joined his first joint Japanese-U.S. collaboration, since the opening of the Production I.G branch in Los Angeles, '' IGPX: Immortal Grand Prix'', a joint production with Production I.G and Cartoon Network. Ishikawa has also produced '' Batman: Gotham Knight'', ''Halo Legends'' and '' Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic''. Ishikawa is also one of the owners of Tatsunoko Productions and often shortened to , is a Japanese animation company. The studio's name has a double meaning in Japanese: "Tatsu's child" (Tatsu is a nickname for Tatsuo) and " sea dragon", the inspiration for its seahorse logo. ...
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World Cosplay Summit
is an annual international cosplay event, which promotes global interaction through Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. It developed from a cosplay exhibition held at the Aichi Expo in 2005. The WCS incorporated in 2012, by which time it had grown to include two weeks of activities, chief of which are a parade and championship held in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Aichi, Japan, on Saturday and Sunday of the first weekend of August. Other related events are held in the Kanto, Kansai, and Tokai regions. Competitors are drawn from partnering anime/manga events held in the respective countries and regions. The summit was organized by broadcaster Aichi Television Broadcasting, TV Aichi until 2012. It is supported by several city organizations, businesses, the WCS student volunteer organization Omotenashi, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Japan), Ministry of Land, Infrastru ...
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Cosplay
Cosplay, a blend word of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and Fashion accessory, fashion accessories to represent a specific Character (arts), character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, and a broader use of the term "cosplay" applies to any costumed role-playing in venues apart from the stage. Any entity that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Favorite sources include anime, cartoons, comic books, manga, television show, television series, rock music concert, performances, video games, Internet meme, memes and in some cases, original characters. The term has been adopted as slang, often in politics, to mean someone pretending to play a role or take on a personality disingenuously. Cosplay grew out of the practice of fan costuming at science fiction conventions, beginning with Morojo's "futuristicostumes" created for the 1st World Science Fiction Conventi ...
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Niconico
, known before 2012 as , is a Japanese video sharing service based in Tokyo, Japan. "Niconico" or "nikoniko" is the Japanese sound symbolism, Japanese ideophone for smiling. As of 2021, Niconico is the 34th most-visited website in Japan, according to Alexa Internet. The site won the Japanese Good Design Award in 2007, and an Honorary Mention of the Digital Communities category at Prix Ars Electronica 2008. Between June 8, 2024 and August 5, 2024, its servers were 2024 cyberattack on Kadokawa and Niconico, affected by a cyberattack and the website was partially active. History The first version of Niconico used YouTube as a video source. When the site grew, YouTube's server infrastructure strained due to increased traffic and bandwidth, leading YouTube to make a decision to block access from Niconico. As a result, Niconico ceased operations for two weeks. The site relaunched with an on-premises video server. On May 7, 2007, Niconico announced a mobile phone version of the webs ...
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Toei Animation
is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including '' Sally the Witch'', '' GeGeGe no Kitarō'', '' Mazinger Z'', '' Galaxy Express 999'', '' Cutie Honey'', '' Dr. Slump'', '' Dragon Ball'', ''Saint Seiya'', '' Sailor Moon'', ''Slam Dunk'', '' Digimon'', '' One Piece'', '' Toriko'', '' World Trigger'', '' The Transformers'' (between 1984 and 1990, including several Japanese exclusive productions), and the ''Pretty Cure'' series. History The studio was founded by animators Kenzō Masaoka and Sanae Yamamoto in 1948 as often shortened to . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was renamed , doing business as Toei Animation Co., Ltd. outside Japan. In 1998, the Japanese name was renamed to Toei Animation. It has created a number of TV series and movies and adapted Japanese comics as animated series, many popular worldwide. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Yasuji Mori, Leiji Matsumoto and Yōichi Ko ...
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Konami
, commonly known as Konami, , is a Japanese multinational entertainment company and video game developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Chūō, Tokyo, Chūō, Tokyo. The company also produces and distributes trading cards, anime, ''tokusatsu'', pachinko machines, slot machines, and List of Japanese arcade cabinets, arcade cabinets. It has casinos around the world, and operates health and physical fitness clubs across Japan. The company originated in 1969 as a jukebox rental and repair business in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, by Kagemasa Kōzuki, who remains the company's chairman. Additionally, Konami owns Bemani, known for ''Dance Dance Revolution'' and ''Beatmania'', as well as the assets of former game developer Hudson Soft, known for ''Bomberman'', ''Adventure Island (video game), Adventure Island'', ''Bonk (series), Bonk'', ''Bloody Roar'', and ''Star Soldier''. Konami is the twentieth-largest Lists of video game companies, game company in the world by re ...
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Square Enix
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate. It releases role-playing video game, role-playing game franchises, such as ''Final Fantasy'', ''Dragon Quest'', and ''Kingdom Hearts'', among numerous others. Outside of video game publishing and development, it is also in the business of merchandise, Arcade game, arcade facilities, and manga publication under its Gangan Comics brand. The original Square Enix Co., Ltd. was formed in April 2003 from a mergers and acquisitions, merger between Square (video game company), Square and Enix, with the latter as the surviving company. Each share of Square's common stock was stock swap, exchanged for 0.85 shares of Enix's common stock. At the time, 80% of Square Enix staff were made up of former Square employees. As part of the merger, former Square President (corporate title), president Yoichi Wada was appointed the president of the new corporation, while forme ...
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