'Star Wars' Comes Home to Japan at Celebration 2025

“It feels like a coming home,” said director Jon Favreau after walking out onstage on the opening day of Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025. It was the morning of Friday, April 18, and Favreau was there to promote The Mandalorian & Grogu, the first new Star Wars movie since 2019’s The Rise of the Skywalker. Yet his comments about this homecoming-like occasion (a nod to the franchise’s Japanese…