Events by year: 2022

13 September 2022

Making the invisible visible (and vice versa) in the “atomic situation”

When the Maruki Gallery opened in 1967, it was initially home to the murals known as the Hiroshima Panels (Genbaku no Zu), painted by the artists Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi. They created 15 works in total between 1950 and 1982, of which the first seven directly depicted the victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In this talk, Professor Steffi Richter from the University of Leipzig will look at the gallery as a place of communication about the “atomic situation” and Hiroshima as not (simply) a city, but a “state of the world” (Günther Anders).

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20 July 2022

ウクライナ侵攻をめぐる空前の「情報戦」

ロシアのウクライナ侵攻をめぐる特徴の一つに、激しい「情報戦」があります。特に印象的なのはウクライナや英国、米国の諜報機関、民間情報機関による秘密情報の積極的な開示でしょう。ロシアの虚偽情報に対抗して「事実」を明らかにし、軍事行動の機先を制することを目的としています。英国の情報機関のある幹部は「真実の周知を確かなものとするため」に、通常は明かされることのない秘匿性の高い情報を戦略的に公開していることを明らかにしています。その迅速さと規模は前例がありません。

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19 July 2022

Private View: HIROSHIMA by Iri Maruki and Toshiko Akamatsu

From 1950 to 1982 Iri Maruki and Toshiko Akamatsu (also known as Toshi Maruki) created the Genbaku no Zu series of artworks, internationally known as the Hiroshima Panels. The works became an apparatus to convey the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the general public, first during a period of censorship, then during protests against nuclear weapons by the artists and their supporters. Amidst a mood of fear and anger towards the Cold War, almost 20 countries invited the works to be exhibited in a gesture of peace and transnational solidarity. As we potentially enter an era of escalating nuclear rhetoric, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation showcases the panels’ drawings and exhibition archives in an opportunity to reflect on the consequences of nuclear warfare.

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13 July 2022

Challenges and Opportunities in Refugee Protection: Lessons from Afghanistan to Ukraine

Reflecting the current international situation, in this webinar, the speakers from the UK and Japan discussed the UK’s and Japan’s current refugee policies, and the present situation and future outlook in both countries, similarities and differences in the treatment of Afghani nationals last year and those displaced from Ukraine this year, and how the UK and Japan can work better together to overcome the current difficulties and contribute to a stronger international refugee protection mechanism in the world.

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8 July 2022

Queer activist Kan on marriage equality in Japan

In this talk, Kan discussed the difficulties he had attending a Japanese school where heterosexuality and gender categories were taken for granted, his struggles with his own sexuality and his coming out to his Japanese family and friends, his decision to study overseas in search of a more inclusive environment, and his move to the UK in 2021, given Japan’s continued non-recognition of marriages with same-sex partners. He also discussed Japan’s social and legal environment as it relates to sexual minorities, and what Japan can do to create a more liveable environment for them.

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5 July 2022

The political economy of inflation in Japan since the Ukraine War

The Ukraine War has exacerbated the global pressures of inflation on items from food to energy, with huge consequences for the political economies of the G7 and European countries. In this session, the speaker discussed whether Japan’s decades-long issues related to “deflation” going to be “solved” by inflation, and also addressed the risks and opportunities arising from this round of inflation, such as climate action, wage hikes, the pension system. Following this, he gave an overview of recent Chatham House events related to the Ukraine War, and then discussed the role of thinktanks in general.

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5 July 2022

Ukraine War and Energy Security in the UK and Japan

The conflict in Ukraine has had an immediate and significant impact on global energy supply, leading to energy price increases for consumers, and threatening the energy security strategy of a number of countries and regions. In this webinar Professor Benjamin McLellan and Professor Molly Scott Cato discussed the current energy situation in the UK and Japan, the impact of the Ukraine crisis on prices, and the future for renewable energy, considering how energy efficiency can be improved, and how to achieve the target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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29 June 2022

Three women by Maria Farrar

Maria Farrar is an artist based in London. Born in the Philippines in 1988, she was brought up in Shimonoseki, Japan, until the age of 15, when she moved to the UK. In this talk, Maria told the stories of three Filipina women who have left their country for work or through marriage. The three stories reflected the effects of separation, the sacrifices first-generation immigrant communities make, and how, despite the difficulty of being separated from your larger family circle, building new families in a new country is a beautiful thing.

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27 June 2022

英国大学

英国大学の「ベーシック」～そのキラキラの秘密を解き明かす～

本ウェビナーでは、佐野壽則氏が、英国の大学の教育・研究・ 経営の在り方について紹介します。日本と両極端と言えるほど異なる英国大学の歴史や制度を紐解きながら、コロナ禍で、英国大学がどのような役割を担ったか、コロナがもたらした本質的な変化、今後の英国大学の展望について話しいただきます。

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26 May 2022

Private View: Somewhat Infrequently by Daisuke Kosugi

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is pleased to present Daisuke Kosugi’s first UK solo exhibition Somewhat Infrequently, showcasing Kosugi’s two latest works, A False Weight (2019) and All that goes before forget (2021). Kosugi utilises video as his primary medium to produce work that focuses on dislocated subjectivity in a normalised social milieu. He uses moving images to distort our sense of time – fixed, universal, always marching forward – and make us question what we thought we knew about our memory. While the world tries to advance and grow, desperately trying to keep up with the pace of change, Kosugi’s works make us pause and allow us to experiment with different relations and connections to ourselves and others.

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19 May 2022

Western Lives and Letters in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan

This talk celebrated the launch of a new book, Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia, in which scholars from the UK, US, Europe, and Japan present intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in the world of the treaty ports. It examines how Westerners ‘chronicled’ their overseas lives in personal letters, diplomatic dispatches, business records, and academic papers. By utilizing these rich but often overlooked sources, Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia presents new insights into the pace and challenges of daily life, especially in the Japanese treaty ports of Nagasaki and Yokohama but also in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

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