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 on29 June 2020
Artist Amanda Chambers returned for a third residency at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in early 2020. “Life in the normally sleepy town of Shigaraki was frenetic. Tourists, excited by a TV drama based on a local potter, had started to visit en masse. When the virus hit Japan the hordes continued to come until the State of Emergency was declared and the town resumed its slow pace.” You can read a full account via the button below.
Read on26 June 2020
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was privileged to receive the Japan-British Society Award in 2019. The Foundation was chosen to be the recipient of this Award for its contributions to the furthering of Anglo-Japanese relations, and the Daiwa Scholarships programme in particular was highlighted for its success in this regard.
Read on24 June 2020
On 24 June 2020, author and Daiwa Scholarship alumna Natasha Pulley spoke about her latest novel, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow. This sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street takes readers to Japan, “where time, destiny and love collide to electrifying effect.” The video is available to watch on Exeter Library’s Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/ExeterLibrary/videos/679855939232329/ Natasha spoke about and
Read on20 June 2020
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Daiwa Foundation Award to Ravensbourne University’s Department of Architecture to support travel in summer 2019 to Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture by a group of Architecture students led by Idrees Rasouli (formerly based at Ravensbourne and founder and CEO of X-Crop) and Kate Sedwell from Atlantic Pacific Rescue to collaborate with counterparts in Kamaishi to explore the role of design in responding to mass disaster. The aim was to identify immediate and longer-term needs in Kamaishi.
19 June 2020
The 2019 Tokyo performances of Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s site-specific, dramatic musical work THE鍵KEY at Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier have been awarded the 19th Keizo Saji Prize by the Suntory Foundation for the Arts. The prize is awarded yearly to a high-quality, challenging, and reaction-provoking performance selected from music-based public performances held in Japan that year. (Press release here.)
Read on10 June 2020
In March 2019, a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant was awarded to Ellie Robinson-Carter, a Creative Dementia Practitioner, to support “Pass the Baton!” – an international exchange with Takehito Tokuda, a member of the Dementia Friendship Club in Japan. Over the course of this project, Takehito Tokuda visited the UK and Ellie Robinson-Carter travelled to Japan on a research visit.
Read on1 June 2020
The organisers of the Sibiu International Theatre Festival – the first large theatre festival in Central and Eastern Europe to be organised online in 2020, have organised an online special edition, “Empowered”, which will be streamed for free on Facebook, YouTube, and via its website. Two of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s productions will be streamed online: The
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