News category: Grants

Fate, Imaone and Suiko: the Japanese Artists Displaying Work at the London Mural Festival

Maddie Baker, History and Japanese student at the University of Exeter has written about this year’s inaugural London Mural Festival. The Festival featured more than one hundred and fifty artists from around the world. The Japanese artists that the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has supported at the event this year are: Fate, Imaone, and Suiko.

The inaugural London Mural Festival will launch in September 2020

The London Mural Festival kicked off in September 2020 with over 150 global artists heading to London to paint more than 40 large-scale walls across the capital. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation supported travel to the UK by the three participating Japanese artists: Fate, Imaone and Suiko. Lee Bofkin, CEO and Co-Founder of Global Street Art, the

Electric Japan - 1 to 7 August - a free online festival celebrating work by Japanese artists

Electric Japan is a free online festival celebrating work by a range of Japanese artists in dance, theatre, fashion, film and photography. Taking place from 1 – 7 August,  it is a rare glimpse into Japan’s burgeoning new arts scene.

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from an Okinawan Bukubuku Tea Ceremony to Scientific Research into the Hepatitis B Virus

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 2020 round). Durham University will receive support for a project with colleagues at Rissho and Tokyo Universities investigating Japanese heatwave related health impacts in order to better manage the health risk arising

Amanda Chambers firing work in Shigaraki - in the time of Snow, Sakura and Covid-19

Artist Amanda Chambers returned for a third residency at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in early 2020. “Life in the normally sleepy town of Shigaraki was frenetic. Tourists, excited by a TV drama based on a local potter, had started to visit en masse. When the virus hit Japan the hordes continued to come until the State of Emergency was declared and the town resumed its slow pace.” You can read a full account via the button below.

Design for Social Regeneration in Kamaishi

Run Tomo: Creating a dementia-friendly community across Japan

In March 2019, a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant was awarded to Ellie Robinson-Carter, a Creative Dementia Practitioner, to support  “Pass the Baton!” – an international exchange  with  Takehito Tokuda, a member of  the  Dementia Friendship Club in Japan. Over the course of this project, Takehito Tokuda visited the UK and Ellie Robinson-Carter travelled to Japan on a research visit.

Japanese Marine Life

Our very many congratulations to Professor Jason Hall-Spencer and Professor Kazuo Inaba on the publication of their book on Japanese Marine Life published on 6 May 2020. This publication is just one of several outcomes which have arisen from Professor Hall-Spencer’s first research visit to Japan which the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation supported with a Daiwa

45 years of Research in Japan

In autumn 2019, the anthropologist Professor Joy Hendry returned to the village of Kurotsuchi in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan to present and work on historical materials, and to gather data for a final book-length account of her long-term fieldwork in the area. Here you can watch her son’s evocative film ‘Understanding Japanese Culture – 45 years researching a village in rural Japan’.

Wolverhampton Literature Festival: Kazuo Ishiguro, Perspectives from Japan

This event invites critics from Japan to give their culturally specific perspective on one of the finest and most loved writers of or time: Kazuo Ishiguro.  Which Japanese literature, cinema and the culture have had a formative impact on Ishiguro’s authorship?  How Japanese is Ishiguro anyway? Whilst Motoko Sugano will show war paintings that informed Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World, other