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
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),
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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
Read on29 September 2021
The BFI has very generously shared a great offer (2 tickets for the price of 1) for the duration of their fabulous JAPAN 2021: 100 YEARS OF JAPANESE CINEMA season, running from October to December. Simply quote JAPAN241 when booking! https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/article/japan
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1) The flagship Daiwa Scholarships programme was established in 1991. It is a unique 19-month programme of language study, work placement, and homestay in Japan, following a month of Japanese language study in the UK. It only open to UK nationals.
2) The Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies is a postgraduate scholarship programme to support the study of Japanese Studies in either Japan or the UK. Only UK citizens who hold or are completing a degree in Japanese Studies, defined as a course focussing primarily on the study of Japan, and containing a substantial Japanese language component are eligible to apply.
9 September 2021
Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival returns this month as Chapter’s first visiting film festival since lockdown measures ended. Although the festival screenings will have reduced seating due to social distancing, there’s still a great programme of events, with films such as The Deer King, Ride Your Wave, On-Gaku, and Studio Ghibli’s latest Earwig and the Witch. An important part of
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