20 December 2018
All around the coast of the UK there are millions of the common European starfish – Asterias rubens. Occasionally, we can see evidence of this abundance when starfish are washed up on our beaches during stormy weather. But how do these marine creatures reproduce to maintain this huge population? Starfish are either male or female
Read on11 December 2018
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of grants awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its September 2018 funding round.
Read on15 June 2018
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of grants awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round.
Read on14 June 2018
CLOD ENSEMBLE is pleased to present ‘Snow’, a twenty-minute sound piece inspired by the restless spirits in Japanese Noh Theatre. ‘Snow’ will be one of three short pieces shown as part of ‘The Transformative Power of Mugen Noh’ during ‘Noh Reimagined’ Festival at Kings Place, London on Saturday 30 June 2018, 7.30pm. In a pre-show talk, Suzy Willson and Paul Clark will talk about their recent visit to Japan, which was supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Read on10 May 2018
From 16 to 21 May 2018 at Gallery@Oxo in London, Fumio Nabata, Richard Bailey and Fiona Yaron-Field will be holding a photography exhibition, Positive Energies to raise awareness of Down’s Syndrome. Nabata’s work will feature photographs of children taken in a variety of countries including Japan, Myanmar, South Africa and the UK.
Read on7 March 2018
WAGON is delighted to announce In Praise of Shadows, the first two-person exhibition between Atsuo Hukuda (b.1958, Hokkaido) and Alan Johnston (b.1945, Edinburgh) in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan from 12 May until 3 June 2018. It is hosted by Suisei-Art, a project space based in a historical Kanazawa Machiya building.
Read on22 February 2018
Julie Brook will give an introduction to her land based sculptural work in wild and remote landscapes in Scotland, Libya and NW Namibia and talk about her current project in the Outer Hebrides and Japan: 6pm, 27 February 2018, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Read on29 November 2017
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of grants awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (September 2017). The Foundation will support artists Eleanor Morgan and Sam Curtis to travel to Japan to enhance their skills in “gyotaku” or fish rubbing, after which they will run workshops in London to encourage people to learn about ocean ecology.
Read on30 October 2017
AREThé Festival: Japanese Ceramics and the Way of Tea – 5 November 10am-5pm. A study day celebrating Japanese ceramics and tea culture from talks, throwing demonstrations and Tea Ceremony in the Ashmolean to Raky Firing and Anagama Kilm opening at Wytham Woods (bus transport provided). With an evening reception at Oxford Ceramics Gallery. The programme of events is supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Great-Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
Read on29 September 2017
Running at BFI Southbank from Monday 16 October – Wednesday 29 November, Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama will be an opportunity for audiences to explore the cinema of Japan’s ‘Golden Age’, with a distinctly female focus. This Sight & Sound Deep Focus season includes several titles rarely screened in the UK, such as The Mistress (Shirō Toyoda, 1953), An Inlet of Muddy Water (Imai Tadashi, 1953) and The Blue Sky Maiden (Yasuzo Masumura, 1957), and
spotlights the magnificent female actors who starred in them. These include figures such as Setsuko Hara, one of Ozu’s key collaborators, Kinuyo Tanaka, the actor who became one of Japan’s first female directors and who was hailed in the West as ‘Japan’s Bette Davis’, and Machiko Kyō, best known as the star of Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950). All of these stars endure as beloved icons of Japanese cinema, and their performances shine just as brightly as they did over fifty years ago.
