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 on30 November 2014
Usagi Yojimbo will be showing at Southwark Playhouse from Friday 28 November 2014 to Sunday 4 January 2015. 17th Century Japan. A world of bandit raccoons, feline ninjas and warring animal clans.A young rabbit leaves home, family and friends behind him in pursuit of one ambition: to become a great samurai warrior.
Read on21 November 2014
We are grateful to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation for award of the Daiwa Adrian Prize 2013. This Prize was awarded to teams led by Dr Antony Dodd at the University of Bristol and Dr Mitsumasa Hanaoka at Chiba University, and is supporting on-going and new collaborations between biological sciences research laboratories in the UK and Japan.
Read on18 November 2014
In May 2014 the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Daiwa Foundation Award to Dr Mayumi Hayashi of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College London to support her collaborative research into dementia care. She has been collaborating with KCL’s Institute of Gerontology and Psychiatry, and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.You can read a newspaper article which she wrote on dementia care in Japan via the red button below:
Read on18 November 2014
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures is holding its Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art and Science on 20, 26 and 28 November 2014. The title of the series is Looking for the Roots of Modern Japanese Science and Technology in Edo-Period Japan 1615–1868 and the speaker is Kazuyoshi Suzuki (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo).
Read on13 November 2014
The three shortlisted artists for the Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2015 are Mikhail Karikis, Oliver Beer and Julie Brook. In June 2015 the shortlisted artists will exhibit at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, London. The winning artist, who will be announced during the exhibition’s opening night, will then exhibit at the Aoyama | Meguro Gallery, Tokyo in autumn 2015. For further details please refer click here. The press release can be viewed here:
Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2015 - Press Release, shortlist announced, PDF Read on12 November 2014
The School of Media, Culture and Society at the University of the West of Scotland has been collaborating with Tokyo Metropolitan University’s IDEEA Lab since 2012. Together with the University of the West of Scotland’s Creative Futures Institute, the aim is to establish a programme of knowledge exchange between the UK and Japan in the field of interactive and multimodal art practice. The project is led by Professor Katarzyna Kosmala of the University of the West of Scotland.
Read on11 November 2014
This Sunday, 16 November at 18:45 on BBC Radio 3, you can listen to former Daiwa Scholar and New Generation Thinker, Dr Chris Harding exploring the influence of Freud on psychotherapy in Japan and India. The programme will then also be available on BBC Iplayer.
Read on10 November 2014
Worldpay UK has an opening for four Japanese-speaking business analysts. Worldpay is one of the top five payments processors in the world, making and taking payments for many of the world’s leading consumer brands . Worldpay processes about 500 face to face and online transactions every second. And as it goes from strength to strength, it’s looking for four talented people to join them on their journey. If you’re passionate about e-Commerce, Product Development and Delivering Change, if you are excited by technology and innovation, this is an opportunity to be part of a truly global and fast growing company. See their job spec for further details.
Read on3 November 2014
Do not miss this opportunity to apply to take part in Sir Peter Parker Awards. Former Daiwa Scholar Louis Barson won in 2008! A wide range of fabulous prizes are available, including a Return Air Ticket to Japan, and many many more!
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