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
Read on24 October 2011
I am delighted to be joining the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation as Director General – although I am aware that my predecessor Professor Marie Conte-Helm will prove a hard act to follow!
Read on17 October 2011
The theme for the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation 2012 Seminar Series will be: Leadership: People and Power in the UK and Japan The March 2011 crisis in north east Japan has called into question Japanese society’s future direction and our perceptions of what it means to be Japanese. Meanwhile, in Britain, a coalition government and dual
Read on14 October 2011
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to announce the three artists shortlisted for the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2012: Jennifer E. Price, Tom Hammick and Haroon Mirza.
Read on14 October 2011
After 12 years as Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, I shall be leaving at the end of this month. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to direct the wide range of activities that the Foundation pursues in support of UK-Japan relations.
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