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!
Read on16 September 2022
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
Read on7 September 2022
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
Read on6 September 2022
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),
Read on4 September 2022
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
Read on29 April 2014
Zou store is delighted to announce a collaboration with artist, Kentaro Kobuke from 1st – 13th May at Zou, 17 Endell Street, Covent Garden, WC2.
Read on29 April 2014
Charlotte Payne, a 2009 Daiwa Scholar, returned to Japan in March 2013 as a (Japanese Government) MEXT (Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Scholar, to study the nutritional implications of entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, in rural communities. She originally became interested in insects as a potentially nutrient-rich source of protein
Read on28 April 2014
Come and enjoy an evening of chamber music with Midori Komachi and the Duport Ensemble on Friday, 2 May at Saint James’s Piccadilly at 7:30pm.
Read on24 April 2014
Shinichi Adachi’s solo photography exhibition, Calling is a collection of portrait photographs centring around the relationship between people and a classic telephone. The models were encouraged to express themselves and this allows the viewers imagine the circumstances in which the models found themselves. The exhibition will be held on Saturday 26 April at the Camera Café in Bloomsbury.
Read on24 April 2014
As I arrived for the Field Studies workshop at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design on 16 April, the legendary Akio Suzuki was preparing for his talk. Donning his customary tight-fitting hat and with his grey beard, he almost looked like one of Hayao Miyazaki’s avuncular and wise protagonists.
Read on24 April 2014
The interview with 2014 Daiwa Scholar, Freyja Sewell, can now be heard on BBC IPlayer for the next seven days until 30 April 2014.
Read on22 April 2014
Asian Performing Arts UK are delighted to announce Sankai Juku’s visit to London for their two-days Masterclass on 3rd and 4th May 2014 at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and The Place.
Read on10 April 2014
“A hugely revered, popular filmmaker in his home country of Japan, Yoshitaro Nomura’s (1919 – 2005) film career spanned more than 50 years during which he directed 89 films.
Considered one of the pioneers of Japanese film noir, he is best known in Japan for his adaptations of mystery and detective novels, several of which were based on stories by best-selling left-leaning crime writer Seicho Matsumoto (1909-1992), who was the most popular and highest paid writer in Japan in the late 1950s.
Read on9 April 2014
The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) and the Japan Research Centre (JRC) at SOAS announce that registration is still open for the Advanced Postgraduate Conference to be held at SOAS, London on Friday 25 April 2014.
Read on1 April 2014
On Wednesday 2 April at 7:30pm, the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta, comprised of young musicians from schools in Fukushima, Japan will perform a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. 
