12 October 2022
The current exhibition at Klei in London is of work by Daiwa Scholarships alumna Symy Ong. Currently Oxford-based, artist Symy Ong is exhibiting her first body of work back in the UK since spending time in Japan on the Daiwa Scholarship!
Read on16 September 2022
Very many congratulations to former Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies Scholar Warren A. Stanislaus who was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for his article “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain” (2022). The Ian Nish Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an early career researcher in any
Read on7 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
16 Daiwa Scholars from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts have arrived in Japan! The start of the programme has been delayed by two years in the case of the 2020 Scholars and by one year in the case of the 2021 Scholars. We wish them a great twelve months of language study (at Waseda),
Read on4 September 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and figurative painter Carl Randall was invited by the Japan Society London to give a talk on 4 July 2022. (Link to the video of the talk is below.) The talk took place at the Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, central London. In this illustrated lecture Carl gave an insight into his series
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29 September 2022
This year marks 50 years since the reversion of Okinawa to Japan. We look back at the past half-century and use interviews with Okinawan people to consider from various perspectives the current situation in Okinawa, whose history and culture are different from mainland Japan. The second interview is with Chо̄kei Futenma, Director of the Himeyuri Peace Museum. Mr. Futenma started working for the museum when it opened in 1989, and was appointed Director in 2018, becoming the first Director to be born after the War. We asked him about the Battle of Okinawa and his efforts to ensure it is not forgotten, from the opening of the museum up to the present, and continuing into the future.
Read on18 September 2022
Very many congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alumna Kathleen Reilly who has been shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards. ‘Oku’ is a new knife design produced in collaboration with highly skilled craftsmen in Tsubame City – an area renowned for over 400 years of metalworking in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. https://www.dezeen.com/awards/2022/shortlists/oku/
Read on13 September 2022
The Foundation will be closed on Monday 19 September, the day of Her Majesty’s funeral.
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 on13 July 2022
Opportunity: we are looking for a Gallery Assistant Intern to join the events team at the Foundation to assist in preparing and coordinating our exhibitions and events.
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
Read on24 June 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been invited by The Japan Society London to give a talk about his Japan paintings and decade spent in Japan as an artist. The talk with take place on Monday 4 July 2022 from 6.45pm, at The Swedenborg Society, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH. It will be
Read on15 June 2022
Artist, writer and Daiwa Scholarship alumnus Edmund de Waal is exhibiting new and celebrated works in porcelain at Waddesdon Manor (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0JH) from Wednesday 15 June until Sunday 30 October 2022. Edmund de Waal: we live here, forever taking leave Wed 15 Jun – Sun 30 Oct 2022 11am-4pm “One of the world’s
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Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been invited to exhibit his oil painting ‘Hairdressers at Night’ at the 2022 Contemporary British Portrait Painters exhibition, 11 to 18 June, at The Department Store Brixton, London, SW9 8FR. The Contemporary British Portrait Painters collective are proud to hold this major new exhibition of work, including
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