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 April 2020
Alex Thacker is one of the four Daiwa Scholars in Japanese Studies 2019. He is currently entering his second semester at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan and below gives an insight into his current life in Kyoto.
Read on29 April 2020
Callum Sarracino began a Masters of Arts and Sciences in Information, Technology and Society in Asia at Tokyo University in September 2019. His interest area is Japanese popular media, in particular anime and manga. He is one of four Daiwa Scholars in Japanese Studies 2019. He returned to the UK for a brief holiday in March 2020, and is currently unsure when he will return to Tokyo.
Read on24 April 2020
Tsunagu/Connect is looking looking for children and young people aged 8-16 years old with Japanese heritage who would be interested in becoming volunteer interviewers! If interested, please do contact them by 8 May 2020 if at all possible. Tsunagu/Connect is an exciting oral history project that will document the lives of Japanese women living
Read on14 April 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was selected for this year’s Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, at the Mall Galleries London. Due to include one of his privately commissioned portrait paintings, the exhibition was planned to be held at the gallery from 7 to 22 May 2020. This has been postponed or cancelled due to recent events; however, the exhibition can still be viewed online.
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