Hyper Japan 2011

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A participant in the Cosplay awards seen standing in front of the Hyper Japan exhibition signage.

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Cosplay contests at the UK Cosplay Awards.

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Exhibitors display sake at the Hasegawa Saketan UK Ltd stand.

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Exhibitor display various brands of sake at the Asaki-Tai Sake & Shochu stand. Sake is a rice-based alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin.

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A young lady writes a message of support at the Tokyo tourism stand.

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So Restaurant chefs prepare sushi on day two of the Hyper Japan Cultural event in London.

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Two ladies in kimono dresses at the Wagashi Japanese Bakery stand

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Atsuko Ikeda presents a Japanese food demonstration.

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Two ladies prepare Japanese food during a demonstration.

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Angus Miyaji of Tsunami Aid points to the location of his town, Shichigahama, at the 'Yet i Still Dare to Hope' exhibition. The exhibition show cases photography by Christina Aiton who survived the recent tusnami.

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A diagram and statistics to show the devastation caused by the tsunami that hit Japan on march 11th. The tsunami was 15.8 meters high and cuse d a continemtal shift of 5.8 metres

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An emerging Japanese designer explains his work on the main stage.

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A young girl works on her manga artwork at the Manga drawing competition workshop.

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Mark Boss, a journalist talks to Cosplay MC's at the main stage before the Cosplay Awards.

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Lina Lao, judge at the Cosplay Awards 2011, shows of her costume.

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Adelaide Flippe, a transformer figure creature from France was one of the judges at the Cosplay Awards 2011.

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Cosplay contests at the UK Cosplay Awards.

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Cosplay contests at the UK Cosplay Awards.

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Cosplay contests at the UK Cosplay Awards.

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A Dr Who impersonator at the cosplay contests.

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Cosplay contests at the UK Cosplay Awards 2011.

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Cosplay contests at the UK Cosplay Awards 2011.

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A Japanese chef prepares noddles at the Sushi Plus stand that specialises in sushi and bento.

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A young lady in Gothic Lolita costume at the calligraphy workshop.

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Two women in 'harajuka girl' inspired face make-up at the ShakeUp Make Up stand. Make up was by Katie Coward.

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Olympia 2 was the venue for the UK's biggest J-culture event, featuring manga, gaming, shopping and cosplay. Above all, Hyper Japan was about fundraising for earthquake-struck Japan. London, UK. 23rd July 2011

Olympia two was the venue for UK's biggest J-culture event, featuring comedy, a talk show and tea party with style icon Kanon Wakeshima, manga, seminars, gaming, shopping, tastings to calligraphy lessons. Above all, Hyper Japan was about helping earth-struck Japan on March 11th.

The event featuring performances from comedy, a talk show and tea party with style icon Kanon Wakeshima, manga and sake seminars, gaming, shopping, tastings to caligrahpy lessons. Majority of the visitors were dressed in Harajuku style costumes.

The event included a photographic exhibtion organised by 7 - Beach Tsunami Aid an online community was set up to support grassroot projects of the people of Shichigahama, a town in Miyagi prefecture, north-east Japan, which was badly affected by the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
The photographs document March 11 as seen b by Christina Aiton and Wendy and is titled 'Yet i Still Dare to Hope' and curated by Angus Miyaji .

The main stage attracted a maximum audience during the UK Cosplay Awards, which featured participants showing off there best cosplay costumes and moves to music to mimic Japanese anime characters. Cosplay is an abbreviation of Costume Play, a Japanese subculture based on dressing like characters from manga, anime,and video games.
Costumes were judged on presentation and precision, with teams having 3 minutes to do a presentation.

Hyper Japan 2011run from 22-24th July, with one third of all sponsorship finding donated to the japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund, in addition ten present of net ticket revenue donated directly to the relief fund.