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 on23 September 2019
The four 2019 Daiwa Scholars in Japanese Studies will embark on their chosen university courses, supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, from September. They will be studying at Cambridge University and Oxford University in the UK, and Tokyo University and Ritsumeikan University in Japan, respectively. Their research includes pre-modern and contemporary literature, politics, economics, anime, and manga.
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Maddie Baker, History and Japanese student at the University of Exeter, gives as a whistle-stop tour into the Kotatsu Festival. The festival is nearing its 10-year anniversary and, this year, has selected 8 of the most entertaining, action-packed and thought-provoking animation films to screen to audiences. Alongside the films, on-lookers can enjoy the Japanese marketplace
Read on4 September 2019
This year’s eight Daiwa Scholars have departed for Japan, embarking on their 19-month programme of language study, homestay, and work placements. Fresh from a month of Japanese tuition in the UK, the Scholars will hone their language skills at Waseda university in Tokyo over the course of the next year. The Scholarship will allow them to further their studies and specialties, which range from the fine arts to science and humanities, and forge new and enduring links between the UK and Japan.
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