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
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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
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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),
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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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A woodcut printing demonstration and workshop will be held by trained master woodcut printers from the Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints at the Daiwa Anglo-Foundation on Saturday 3 November, 2:00-4:00pm. The workshop will be held in association with the ICN gallery.
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Exclusive Installation Pictures Nao Matsunaga will be exhibiting at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace NW1, from Thursday 18th October until 13th December. The exhibition will be open 9-5 Monday to Friday. There are late night openings until 8pm on 23 25, 30 October and 1, 7, 22, 29 November. The Private View is on
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a thousand hours, Alan Cristea Gallery , Saturday 6 October to Saturday 10 November 2012, 31 Cork Street, London The ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal OBE is currently exhibiting at Alan Cristea gallery until 10 November. This exhibition takes its central concept of vitrines from a theme in the artist’s award winning family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes which was published in
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Studying at Essex My experience studying at the University of Essex was very enjoyable. The courses I took were mainly related to second language acquisition, which I had been studying in my home university in Japan. In Essex, I could broaden my view about language teaching more because of its good learning environment. First of
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The widely-known, hugely respected and much-loved anthropologist Joy Hendry has been doing research in Japan for 40 years. In this Meiji Jingu Autum Lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London the audience was privileged to hear Hendry’s personal account of her life as an anthropologist. Hendry modestly began by apologising in
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Toki Quartet ~Harmony of Cultural Sounds ~ A Cultural Exchange Project exploring works by Japanese and British composers Japan Tour details: Toki Quartet Japan Tour November 2012 1st November (Thursday) 6pm Workshop with Yuka Takechi at the Tokyo University of Arts Exploring the String Quartets by Takemitsu and Britten Britten wrote his
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On 26 September Peter Murray, Director of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, gave a talk about his friend Kan Yasuda whose sculpture is currently displayed on the front lawn outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge as part of this year’s Sculpture Promenade . The two other sculptors included in the Promenade are Helaine Blumenfeld and Peter Randall-Page. All three artists
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