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 on19 October 2018
Daiwa Scholarship Alumnus Carl Randall was interviewed by CNN about his Japan paintings, as part of a programme about Formula 1 in Japan. Carl was selected to be artist in residence at the 2007 Grand Prix Formula 1 in Japan, and in the programme he talks about the residency and his paintings. Video duration: 23mins
Read on16 October 2018
Find out about Tokyo’s plans to become the world’s leading financial and environmental city and the educational and employment opportunities this offers.
On Wednesday, 31 October at 10am, City, University of London is hosting will host a visit from senior officials from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Metropolitan University. As part of the visit, Yuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo and Dr Haruo Shimada, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Tokyo Metropolitan University will give talks at City.
Read on9 October 2018
In conjunction with White Conduit Project’s current exhibition, We Are Going To Need Some More Coffee: City Vignettes from Tokyo and Buenos Aires by Maria Guerberof (on until 28th October 2018), Florencia Guerberof will present a contemporary Butoh performance on the boundaries of music and contemporary art. Thursday 18th October 2018, 7:00pm to 10:00pm Doors open
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