9 December 2020
In a bid to contribute to academic research, international understanding and knowledge exchange, the Toyota-Shi Trevelyan Trust (TSTT) provides scholarships and bursaries to enable students from the United Kingdom to pursue studies in Japan. The scholarships, which amount to £2,500 per award are available to undergraduate and postgraduate students who are UK residents to support a
Read on1 October 2020
Ashinaga UK is running a series of events in October around the theme “Access Education for All”. Its fundraising campaign supports incoming and current students as they begin the new academic year in a challenging and uncertain global setting, and it begins on 5 October 2020: World Teachers’ Day. One of the events will be a Haiku Competition, starting on 10 October. Prizes will include a Japanese food box
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Callum Sarracino began a Masters of Arts and Sciences in Information, Technology and Society in Asia at Tokyo University in September 2019. His interest area is Japanese popular media, in particular anime and manga. He is one of four Daiwa Scholars in Japanese Studies 2019. He returned to the UK for a brief holiday in March 2020, and is currently unsure when he will return to Tokyo.
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Saturday 23 November 2019 | 12:00 – 18:00
The Royal Society, London
Admission is free of charge.
The Experience Japan Exhibition seeks to introduce the growing range of study and research opportunities available in Japan.
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The Experience Japan Exhibition is now in its eighth year. The event gets bigger each year with more and more people taking part to find out about the growing range of study and work opportunities available in Japan. Experience Japan 2018 will take place at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG on Saturday, 17 November, 12:00 – 18:00. Admission
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For information on attending, submissions of current research, and about potential funding available for accommodation and travel expenses, please contact this year’s convener Simon Kaner, Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia and Head of the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute via S.Kaner@uea.ac.uk. There is now a Facebook group called ‘JETAA UK Academic Special Interest Group’; to join, search for it by name via facebook and request permission.
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Japan has it all. It integrates a perfect balance of East and West, of tradition and modernity, of order and chaos. And now there are more opportunities than ever before to study and work in this unique country.
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The world’s leading competition for young violinists, the Menuhin Competition London 2016, begins on 7th April with the Opening Concert at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall including 2014’s Junior 1st Prize winner, Japanese Rennosuke Fukuda.
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The world’s leading competition for young violinists, the Menuhin Competition London 2016, begins on 7th April with the Opening Concert at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall including 2014’s Junior 1st Prize winner, Japanese Rennosuke Fukuda. You can see Rennosuke’s winning performance here: Starring 44 violin prodigies from around the world, 7 of whom are Japanese,
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Together with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, former Daiwa Scholar Dr Chris Harding is setting up a ‘Japan Research Network Edinburgh’. The Network’s aim is to bring together scholars working on any area of Japan – staff, researchers, and graduate students alike – via a website (JRNE.org ) where they can search for one another via name, institution, and research interests. They will also hold seminars in Edinburgh a few times per year. Their first will be given by Angus Lockyer, on 12th March 2015. Though they are particularly keen to get colleagues in Scotland and the north of England talking to and meeting one another, they would very much like to extend the invitation to scholars across the UK.
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