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
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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
Read on29 June 2015
You can listen to 2013 Daiwa Scholar Natasha Pulley talking with Jeremy Sallis on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.
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Natasha Pulley is one of the six 2013 Daiwa Scholars. She finished the Scholarship at the end of March 2015. Natasha read English at the University of Oxford and in 2012 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has a long-standing interest in Japan and in Japanese literature, and has recently completed her first novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. It will be published on 2 July 2015.
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Okinawa Day 2015 hopes to introduce Okinawan culture further into the UK and enrich the UK-Okinawa relationship which has been established through our previous Okinawa Day events.
Read on5 June 2015
Former Daiwa Scholar, Carl Randall was recently commissioned to paint a World War Two D-Day Veteran for The Royal Collection (commissioned by HRH Prince of Wales, organised by The Royal Drawing School).
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