An eight day stakeholder festival brought to you by the best venues, businesses, and communities the city of Brighton & Hove has to offer.  Wide-ranging and inclusive, Brighton Japan is unique in its ambition: to offer an exciting platform for Japan-related arts, technology, design and business to inspire, excite, and enrich. 

Brighton Japan thinks big: it thinks it can offer a genuinely creative and stimulating environment to attract the best businesses and arts to Brighton. If you would like to get involved either as a sponsor, or as an artist or performer, please contact us on info@brightonjapan.com.

Things to watch out for:

MOSHI MATSURI (23rd-24th June) - launching the festival, a crammed-packed weekend of Japanese music and performances, traditional children's games, workshops and street processions, as well as a profusion of shitamachi-style stalls selling all sorts of street food and Japanese goods.

FESTIVAL HUB (22nd June - 1st July) A series of classy, quality evening events held in a specially erected tent next to Moshi Moshi in Bartholomew Square.

ASAHI ANIME FESTIVAL (30th - 1st July) A delirious and colourful celebration of all things anime, with Cosplay contests, manga drawing and karaoke competitions galore.

Participating venues for Brighton Japan are The Brighton Dome & Pavilion, Duke of York's Picturehouse, Moshi Moshi, and Hotel du Vin.