24 June 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been invited by The Japan Society London to give a talk about his Japan paintings and decade spent in Japan as an artist. The talk with take place on Monday 4 July 2022 from 6.45pm, at The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. It will be
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
Read on27 October 2021
The Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference will take place on Friday 29 October 2021, 3pm to 8pm as part of the Japan 2021 Humanities Cultural Programme led by the University of Oxford, 22 October to 10 December 2021. The conference features Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies alumnus, Warren Stanislaus. “This conference will explore how the
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
Read on9 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
Read on2 July 2021
世界で活躍する写真家であり映画監督の蜷川実花氏が、桜や金魚の象徴的な写真から、最近の「写ルンです」シリーズやパラリンピック選手のポートレート等、自身のアート作品について語ります。また、パンデミックの中で写真家としての活動をどのように調整してきたか、社会的距離感についての考え方や世界観についても探ります。司会は、アシュモレアン美術館キュレーター、フリッチュ・レーナ博士が担当。
蜷川実花氏の作品は、2021年7月29日から、アシュモレアン美術館「TOKYO: ART & PHOTOGRAPHY」展にて展示予定。同氏によるパラリンピック選手のポートレイトは、現在Daiwa Japan House Galleryにて展示中。
9 June 2021
This Japan Foundation event features a group of UK theatre professionals – who have looked towards Japan for source materials in their respective productions – at an informal roundtable talk. We are delighted that Alex Rutter, a 2015 Daiwa Scholar, will be taking part.
Read on5 May 2021
本講演会ではオスカー受賞者の映画監督兼プロデューサー、ジェレミー・トーマス氏が、日本の文化が邦画界に及ぼしている影響について、また何故日本人の映画監督や俳優と仕事をするようになったかを語ります。監督がどのように脚本プロジェクトと向き合い、世界中の観客を魅了し続けているのかを探ります。司会は、映画プロデューサーの市山尚三氏が担当。
Read on30 April 2021
One for families, teachers and anyone who wants to get creative!
Join in the fun for Japanese Children’s Day this coming bank holiday weekend (1 to 3 May) at Pantechnicon, London with taiyaki ice creams and koi carp flag-making with Danish illustrator Alfred Bramsen.
10 March 2021
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta have made a video showing how individual members and the whole community have benefitted from coming together and making music in the wake of the tsunami.
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