12 October 2022
The current exhibition at Klei in London is of work by Daiwa Scholarships alumna Symy Ong. Currently Oxford-based, artist Symy Ong is exhibiting her first body of work back in the UK since spending time in Japan on the Daiwa Scholarship!
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Very many congratulations to former Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies Scholar Warren A. Stanislaus who was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for his article “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain” (2022). The Ian Nish Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an early career researcher in any
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Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko
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16 Daiwa Scholars from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts have arrived in Japan! The start of the programme has been delayed by two years in the case of the 2020 Scholars and by one year in the case of the 2021 Scholars. We wish them a great twelve months of language study (at Waseda),
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Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and figurative painter Carl Randall was invited by the Japan Society London to give a talk on 4 July 2022. (Link to the video of the talk is below.) The talk took place at the Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, central London. In this illustrated lecture Carl gave an insight into his series
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On 7 November, I was lucky enough to go on an early morning tour of the William Klein and Daido Moriyama exhibition at the Tate Modern, expertly guided by Juliet Bingham, who, with Dr Simon Baker, curated the dual-retrospective of these two pioneering giants of photography. On display are over 300 photographs, stills and films dating from the 1950s
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Until 8 December the exhibition YATAI HERE YATAI THERE is being shown at the Front Room of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Bedford Square, London. Opening hours are 10:00am – 7:00pm, Monday to Friday and 10:oo am to 3:00pm, Saturday. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese foundation gave this project a small grant in 2012. This project was inspired by the
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Former Daiwa Scholar Jessie Turnbull has published ‘Forces of Nature’ a book on the work of Japanese architect Toyo Ito Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature ISBN 9781616891015 Publication date 9/19/2012 5.5 x 8 inches (14.0 x 20.3 cm), Paperback 144 pages, 50 color illustrations, 25 b/w illustrations Rights: World; (0.0) http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616891015 http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/index/index_en.html The work of
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Gemma Anderson, who had a 2010 exhibition at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, has been selected as artist in residence at the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. Imperial College were awarded with an Artist in Residency grant from the Leverhulme Trust. In her residency, Anderson is collaborating with mathematical biologist Dr Dorothy Buck and geometers
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What an extraordinary event – Birkbeck’s Russell Celyn Jones, Professor of Creative Writing, was in conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro in a large theatre at Friends’ House (Euston Road NW1 2BJ). The Booker Foundation and Man Group are collaborating with Birkbeck, University of London to celebrate recent winners of the Man Booker Prize through a series of
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Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholar, Maki Onodera, spent six weeks studying English in Cambridge in autumn 2012. She is now back in Japan continuing with her undergraduate degree in English Literature at Tohoku Gakuin University. You can read her report below.
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The Daiwa Foundation will have a booth at the Experience Japan Exhibition at the Royal Society, London, 13:00 to 17:00 on Saturday 17 November. Come to meet us a find out more about oppurtunities to study and undertake work experience in Japan as a Daiwa Scholar. We will also have information on our grants and events programmes. Many universities
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『静けさの中から ― ピアニストの四季』
書評者: ヴァイオリニスト・植田リサ
春秋社発行, 368頁, 発行日：2012年6月;ISBN：978-4-393-93562-0
異なる楽器ではあるが、同じ音楽家・演奏家として心から共感する余り、私も訳者のあとがきに書かれているとおり、「膝を叩きながら」ページを次々とめくっていた。
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Yellow Earth, lead by new Artistic Director Kumiko Mendl, are touring England (including more London dates) with the five short, hilarious, poignant and punchy plays which make up ‘Dim Sum Nights.’ Although dim sum is usually eaten as brunch or lunch, the ticket price includes some delicious steamed buns and dumplings. The theme of food runs throughout all of these plays and the last play
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From Friday 9 November, the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, University of Oxford presents the first exhibition devoted to the art of Meiji textiles ever to be held outside Japan. Press releases follow: Threads of Silk and Gold press release Threads of Silk and Gold Japanese press release
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