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 on31 March 2022
With more luggage than one person probably needs, I boarded my flight to Tokyo on the 21st of March, arriving on the 22nd in time to start the new semester at Waseda University. I’m currently in a share house living situation, and although I planned to start my search for more permanent accommodation right away, a surprising
Read on29 March 2022
Welcome to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Monthly Inspiration instalments to see us through the hard times of Covid-19. We are intent on continuing to support closer links between the UK and Japan. We hope that these monthly digests of news will allow everyone at home to continue engaging with Japan. Links to our discontinued series of Weekly Isolation Inspiration series can be found here.
Read on25 March 2022
The book provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan’s future relations with the world
Read on2 March 2022
The Daiwa Foundation is proud to announce that Yukako Tanaka has been shortlisted for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize.
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