7 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
We are delighted to be supporting the Japan strand at this year’s Cheltenham Literary Festival with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant! The Festival runs from 7 to 16 October 2022. The Festival will include a conversation with Mieko Kawakami “Polka Dots Forever: Celebrating Yayoi Kusama” manga workshops with Chie Kutsuwada and a
Read on30 June 2022
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (March 2022). Academics from Durham University and Niigata University will use a grant to facilitate reciprocal visits, resulting in workshops, collaboration, and research into the materials used in anime production for
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In the March 2019 funding round, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Daiwa Foundation Award of £7,000 to English Heritage / Jōmon Archeological Sites World Heritage Inscription Committee to support a visit to Japan (featured in our 2019/20 Annual Review: http://armanios.co.uk/dev/daiwa2/…/Daiwa-Annual-Review-2019-20-Web.pdf). In October 2019, curators and officials from English Heritage, Wiltshire Museum and Wiltshire Council
Read on21 January 2022
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round.
Read on19 November 2021
Japan: Courts and Culture opens at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace on 8 April 2022.
It will continue until 12 March 2023.
27 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
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Many congratulations to Dr Jelena Stojković whose book Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan was awarded the Best Art Publication 2021 in the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2021. We were delighted to support her research with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant and hosted her talk/book launch on 9 September 2020: http://armanios.co.uk/dev/daiwa2/event/surrealism-and-photography-in-1930s-japan-the-impossible-avant-garde
Read on11 August 2021
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (March 2021). Dr Catherine Butler from Cardiff University will travel to Japan to research the popularity of British children’s literature in Japan, and its influence on Japanese literature and popular culture, leading to a published monograph.
Read on6 July 2021
On Thursday 17th June 2021, the jury for the 9th iteration of the UK’s largest contemporary arts prize – Artes Mundi – voted unanimously to divide a £60,000 prize fund among all six shortlisted candidates. On this landmark award, stated by Art Asia Pacific to be ‘the highest-valued contemporary art award in the United Kingdom’,
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