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!
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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 on28 May 2012
An interesting interview in the Weekend FT with Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
Read on25 May 2012
Last night, Frances Morris, Head of Collections (International Art) at Tate and former Head of Displays at Tate Modern, spoke at the Japan Foundation about curating the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Tate Modern, which is open until 5 June in London, before touring to the Whitney in New York in July. For Morris, there
Read on24 May 2012
Yesterday’s ‘PechaKucha for Japan’ event at Logan Hall, Institute of Education brought together an exciting, talented and eclectic mix of presenters and an audience of 500, according to the host and additional speaker for the evening, Michael Johnson (johnson banks).
Read on24 May 2012
Wide Open School is an unusual experiment in learning with courses devised and led by over 100 artists from 40 different countries. The School is open to everyone and begins on 11 June. Pianist and composer, Makoto Nomura, will be involved in three of the Wide Open School’s workshops.
Read on23 May 2012
At least three staff and two trustees of the Foundation went to see the Chiten “Coriolanus”, on at the Globe
Read on21 May 2012
Following is an account of her time in the UK by Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholar, Ms Teina Nakashima. Teina is an undergraduate studying geology at Tohoku University. She successfully applied for a Scholarship in order to study English in Cambridge from 12 February to 18 March 2012.
Read on21 May 2012
Paul Scalise of Tokyo University gave an interesting talk about Japan’s electric power problems at Oxford’s Nissan Institute
Read on18 May 2012
To the Japanese Embassy last night for a reception with the Emperor and Empress. There were a lot of rules and regulations for those attending, but this seemed understandable enough. Photographs were also forbidden, so I don’t have any. Standing with the Empress in front of a gold screen, the Emperor gave a short speech in slow, but extremely clear, English, thanking the people of the UK for their support after the Japanese earthquake last March.
Read on15 May 2012
The existence and condition of children’s outdoor environments in the post disaster Tohoku area of Japan was the focus of Helen Woolley’s recent visit to Japan in April 2012. Helen is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Reader in Landscape Architecture and Society in The Department of Landscape at The University of Sheffield.
Read on10 May 2012
On 23 May there will be an event at Logan Hall in Bloomsbury, London, called PechaKucha: Japan. Just over a year after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, in conjunction with D&AD, a collection of the design and communication world’s greatest stars are being gathered to share stories about Japan.
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