J-Pop Summit

J-Pop Summit is a Japanese cultural festival held every summer since 2009 in San Francisco, California, United States.

The festival brings together different aspects of Japanese culture, including music, fashion, film, art, games, tech innovations, anime, food, as well as niche subcultures.

[2] J-POP SUMMIT first took place as the opening ceremony of the New People building at Japan Town in San Francisco in 2009, and has since become an annual festival of Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, food, sake, games, fashion, films, and music.

Since 2015, the festival re-launched as an indoor event and expanded its area to different locations in the city: Fort Mason Center, Union Square, New People Cinema, and Castro Theatre.

Tadanobu Asada, a Japanese actor, received the first Japan Film Festival of San Francisco Honorary Award at the opening night event held at Castro Theatre in 2015.