Japan Expo In Paris July 7-9th

[Mulboyne]

For Japan-starved Europeans. The Paris Japan Expo looks like it will have a really eclectic line-up. Manga, anime, gyaru culture and fashion, pro-wrestling, heavy metal bands, origami, calligraphy, martial arts and a huge cosplay event. NHK will be making a programme there on "Cool Japan". Quite how all that will fit together is anybody's guess. All at the Parc d'Expositions with tickets from 10 to 25 euros.

http://japan-expo.com/en/index.php

[GuyJean]

NHK will be making a programme there on "Cool Japan".

The show:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/cooljapan/
[quote]COOL JAPAN is a television show that illustrates the quickly changing Japanese culture and how it is perceived　] I've watched it a few times.. Not bad, but there's doesn't seem to much that's not 'cool'.. A bunch of gaijin sit around talking about Japan's 'coolness'..

GJ

[Mulboyne]

I haven't looked closely for confirmation but a friend of mine has said that there was some kind of Korean protest at this Expo. Apparently a number of Korean artists were invited to attend and someone took objection at the fact it was called a Japan Expo. I've asked for some links

[Taro Toporific]

.... someone took objection at the fact it was called a Japan Expo...

Merde---It's called a Japan Expo but it was full of French Freakazoids!

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-Images les Japon d'un Expo Paris 2006
http://www.neko-cosplay.com/event.html
http://www.cosplayforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=4639

[Mulboyne]

AFP: Manga, Japanese wrestling and pop to draw Paris crowd

French fans of all things Japanese are expected in their thousands early next month at a four-day Paris extravaganza of manga comics, anime, Tokyo pop, video gaming, fashion -- and wrestling. Organisers said Friday they hoped to draw some 100,000 visitors for the ninth edition of Japan Expo, a celebration of Japanese pop culture held from July 3 to 6 in a vast conference hall north of the French capital. Dozens of established and aspiring manga artists will have their work on display, with guests from Japan including artists, game creators and live music acts ranging from punk rock to pop and electro. Traditional Asian culture will also get a look in with stalls on flower arranging, sudoku, the art of Zen, or the ancient board game of Go.

Contests will be held for the best cartoon character costumes and amateur manga comic strips, in the vast hall mingling gaming, drawing contests, martial arts, gigs and fashion shows. "The success of Japanese popular culture, of manga and anime has become a truly global phenomenon. But is especially remarkable here in France," Juichi Takahara, minister of the Japanese embassy in Paris, told a press conference. An entire French generation was reared on diet of Japanese animated television cartoons, and today one in two French children are estimated to have read at least one manga comic. Mangas account for 40 percent of all comics sold in France today, up from only 19 percent in 2003. This year's Japan Expo also coincides with the 150th anniversary of French and Japanese diplomatic relations.