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),
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 April 2022
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus Carl Randall will exhibit his new oil painting Hairdressers at Night at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2022 exhibition, at the Mall Galleries London, 5 to 14 May 2022. The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition is one of the world’s most extensive contemporary portrait exhibitions, forming a showcase of
Read on25 April 2022
To coincide with the opening of her solo exhibition The wind blows in, artist Asako Shiroki talks with independent curator and writer David Elliott. Asako Shiroki reflects on her journey so far, starting with jewelry making and exploring the structure and form of woodwork and objects. Here is a look at her journey leading up to her exhibition at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
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Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Edmund Stenson was associate editor on the thrilling documentary, Navalny. It is being shown at cinemas around the world and on BBC2 on Monday, 25 April at 9pm.
Read on21 April 2022
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Read on7 April 2022
Composer and Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s new original musical drama is inspired by ŌGAI Mori’s novel Vita Sexualis. Ōgai was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. The musical drama will be performed in Tokyo on 19 and 20 May 2022! “Stumbling across the long-forgotten diary of an ancestor, a young woman is
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