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 on15 July 2020
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation announces that Sir Tim Hitchens has been appointed Chair of the Trustees with effect from 9 July 2020. He succeeds Sir Peter Williams CBE FRS FREng, who has served in this role since 2012.
Sir Tim has had a long professional and personal association with Japan, first visiting in 1977. He was British Ambassador in Tokyo from 2012 to 2016, and is currently President of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Read on14 July 2020
Electric Japan is a free online festival celebrating work by a range of Japanese artists in dance, theatre, fashion, film and photography. Taking place from 1 – 7 August, it is a rare glimpse into Japan’s burgeoning new arts scene.
Read on8 July 2020
In the fourteenth installment of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration newsletter, the Foundation’s Director General Jason James proposed to publish his translation of “Yoshino Kuzu” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki at the rate of one chapter a week (there are six chapters in total).
Read on5 July 2020
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (March 2020 round). Durham University will receive support for a project with colleagues at Rissho and Tokyo Universities investigating Japanese heatwave related health impacts in order to better manage the health risk arising
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