News category: Scholarships

11 July 2013

'The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Russian-Japanese relations' by James D J Brown

James D. J. Brown PhD, a 2011 Daiwa Scholar, now a lecturer in International Relations at Temple University, Japan in Tokyo, with a keen interest in Russian-Japanese relations, has recently had a thought-provoking and elegantly-written paper on energy and Russian-Japanese relations published in Post-Soviet Affairs. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Russian-Japanese relations Abstract

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19 June 2013

Carl Randall work selected for prestigious RA Summer Exhibition

Dr Carl Randall, a former Daiwa Scholar and MEXT Scholar, will have one of his paintings on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 10 June to 18 August 2013. Do drop by at the Royal Academy from this Saturday, 10 June onwards to see Carl’s painting, ‘Tokyo Subway’.  This is tremendous news as only 1,000 works chosen

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22 February 2013

Carl Randall's encounters with the late Donald Richie

Since moving to Japan in 1947, the recently deceased Donald Richie (1924 – 2013) became recognised worldwide as a Western authority on Japanese culture and society, being described by Time Magazine as ‘the dean of arts in Japan’. He wrote over 30 books about Japan, befriended some of Japan’s foremost artists (including filmmaker Akira Kurosawa),

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5 February 2013

Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholarship report by Miyuki Sasaki

I currently study the radioactive material state of the soil at Fukushima University. In autum 2012, I went to the United Kingdom to learn how radiation has been measured in the past. I stayed in Glasgow for one month in order to learn the radiation measurement method. I studied at the University of Glasgow and the

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16 November 2012

'Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature' published by former Daiwa Scholar, Jessie Turnbull

Former Daiwa Scholar Jessie Turnbull has published ‘Forces of Nature’ a book on the work of Japanese architect Toyo Ito Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature ISBN 9781616891015 Publication date 9/19/2012 5.5 x 8 inches (14.0 x 20.3 cm), Paperback 144 pages, 50 color illustrations, 25 b/w illustrations Rights: World; (0.0) http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616891015 http://www.toyo-ito.co.jp/WWW/index/index_en.html The work of

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