Japan Day (Japanese: 日本デー; German: Japan-Tag Düsseldorf/NRW) is a Japanese festival which is celebrated every year in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is the largest Japanese culture and encounter festival in Europe. In 2025 it was held on 24 May.
Japan Day (Japanese: 日本デー; German: Japan-Tag Düsseldorf/NRW) is a Japanese festival which is celebrated every year in Düsseldorf, Germany.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
Germany
Written in its own script on record as Japan-Tag.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
2 cited sources
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Chapter Takeaways
Amount600,000 people joined the festival in 2013.
CancellationsFor the first time since its inception, the 2020 Japan Day event scheduled for 16 May was canceled with no plans for a postponed event to take place later in the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Post-PandemicJapan Day returned in full on 21 May 2022, as well as 13 May and 1 June on the following years, with an estimated 630,000 attendees and visitors in 2024.
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Japan Day in Düsseldorf in plain words?
Japan Day (Japanese: 日本デー; German: Japan-Tag Düsseldorf/NRW) is a Japanese festival which is celebrated every year in Düsseldorf, Germany. In local script on record, it is written Japan-Tag.
Where is Japan Day in Düsseldorf practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Japan Day in Düsseldorf in Germany.
What is the current condition of Japan Day in Düsseldorf today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
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Japan Day (Japanese: 日本デー; German: Japan-Tag Düsseldorf/NRW) is a Japanese festival which is celebrated every year in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is the largest Japanese culture and encounter festival in Europe. In 2025 it was held on 24 May. 1
Amount
600,000 people joined the festival in 2013. In 2025, according to The Laotian Times, around 380,000 visitors celebrated the festival. 1
Cancellations
For the first time since its inception, the 2020 Japan Day event scheduled for 16 May was canceled with no plans for a postponed event to take place later in the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was expected to resume as normal by the next planned event, taking place on 29 May 2021, but that was also cancelled, in favour of returning in May 2022. As an alternative, there were a series of smaller Japan Day events in its place that were organised later that year, most of them online. 1
Post-Pandemic
Japan Day returned in full on 21 May 2022, as well as 13 May and 1 June on the following years, with an estimated 630,000 attendees and visitors in 2024.
An extension to a Japan Week is planned for 24 May 2025.
Japan Day will return on 23 May 2026 with a firework spectacle at the end. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Japan Day in Düsseldorf”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Japan Day in Düsseldorf is cultural festival in Düsseldorf, Germany, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 2 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 2
