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 on26 March 2020
And there it came. At what would in normal circumstances already have been a busy time for Daiwa Scholars, with most of them moving homes, settling bills and having to say goodbye to friends made, far bigger problems in the world meant that for most of us, the Daiwa Scholars Graduation Ceremony became almost a side-show.
Read on25 March 2020
British Ambassador to Japan, Paul Madden, has sent the 2018 Daiwa Scholars a message of congratulations on their graduation from the programme.
Read on24 March 2020
In autumn 2019, the anthropologist Professor Joy Hendry returned to the village of Kurotsuchi in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan to present and work on historical materials, and to gather data for a final book-length account of her long-term fieldwork in the area. Here you can watch her son’s evocative film ‘Understanding Japanese Culture – 45 years researching a village in rural Japan’.
Read on6 March 2020
Baaba’s Footsteps, by British-Japanese playwright Susan Momoko Hingley, is a new play premiering at the Vault Festival 2020. Baaba’s Footsteps tells the story of two Japanese women from different eras who travel to San Francisco in search of a better life. The protagonist’s present day story is woven together with the story of Japanese Picture
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