4 September 2013
The Tokyo School of Japanese Language (The Naganuma School) held its Speech Contest (one of their three big events) on Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at the Sakura Hall of the Shibuya Cultural Center Owada. This is the first time the speech contest has been held outside the School. Daiwa Scholar 2012 (DS 2012 ), Nick Hall, was awarded the first prize among
Read on2 September 2013
一週間、大和日英基金に働いた 大和日英基金で私は手伝うために、色々な課題をすることができました。新年度へ準備するために、大学にたくさん手紙を送りました。大和日英基金はチャリティなので、大学は大和の生活についてを知りません。だから、このお手紙は大学に基金の目的を伝えます。そして、日本協会は大和の建物の三階を使う予定なので片付けなければなりませんでした。ぜひ、今後、もっとロンドンの行事に参加しようと思います。私の日本の学力は前よりとても良いです。その上に、カロラインと美術館や博物館に行きました。日本について知識を習得したと思います。残念ながら、大学で日本語を習び続けるので、奨学金に申し込まめないけど、学士号を卒業した後に、申し込むかもしれません！全体的に、私は大和日英基金に働くことが好きでした。また帰ると思います！
Read on14 August 2013
We gave a Small Grant to Aberystwyth University in March 2011 to support reciprocal UK-Japan visits by four sports science academics initiating a cross-cultural project on coaches’ leadership styles and athletes’ impression management patterns. This project also has resulted in workshops and publications. We are very pleased to have received an update from Dr Joann Hudson, and there seems
Read on29 July 2013
I made a trip up to Birmingham on Wednesday for the opening of the Shimabuku retrospective exhibition Something that Floats/ Something that Sinks at Ikon Gallery. Shimabuku gave a talk at the Daiwa Foundation last year, and his combination of bizarreness and whimsical charm made me eager to see the actual work. Shimabuku’s message, as I
Read on25 July 2013
We are pleased to announce the 2013 Daiwa Adrian Prize winners. Four UK-Japan scientific research teams will each receive £10,000 in prize money. A full list of project leaders, team members and their institutions is included below. The prize was advertised widely in print media, through our website and social media. We received an excellent
Read on28 June 2013
I have spent this week (Tuesday 25th June-Friday 28h June) on work experience at Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London, and during my time here I have been keeping a diary of everything I do. I have hugely enjoyed my time here and I hope to come back again soon. Many thanks to everyone at Daiwa
Read on18 June 2013
The Ledbury Poetry Festival, the ‘biggest and best poetry festival in the UK,’ will take place this year from 5– 14 July. The festival features poets from all over the world and this year three poets have been invited from Japan to perform and give talks about their work. UK-based Japanese performance poet Kazuko Hohki
Read on9 May 2013
New Boundaries in Modern Japanese Art History: Extending Geographical, Temporal and Generic Paradigms. From 19 to 20 June 2013 at SOAS, University of London (Russell Sq campus). SOAS will hold an international symposium on Japanese Modern Art and its History, with the aim of giving insights into the changing boundaries and concepts of Japanese and wider East
Read on30 April 2013
Erica Shiozaki, a curator and writer who lives and works in London, will give a free Touring Talk of the ICA’s Bernadette Corporation Exhibition in Japanese on Thursday 9 May at 6.30pm. Erica’s recent exhibitions include The Unethical Anthropologist, FOLD Gallery, London 2012, and recent publication includes LABOUR ≠ PROSPERITY, in Misery Connoisseur, London, UK. Register online at the RCA’s
Read on21 March 2013
The elegant Georgian rooms that make up the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery have been transformed by Berlin-based Japanese artist, Hiraku Suzuki. Mystical swirls of hieroglyphic text, shimmering silver silhouettes and tomb-shaped graphite rubbings create an unworldly, primeval atmosphere for the new exhibition, Excavated Reverberations. The symbols that are a reoccurring motif in these
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