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
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 on28 June 2021
In 2019, supported with a Daiwa Foundation Award, ten primary school children from five Coventry primary schools travelled to Japan. The pupils collaborated with five schools in Japan on Olympic-based projects. Outcomes of the project have been far-reaching, including a Japan Arts Festival in Coventry, an Olympic Torch relay between 60 Coventry schools, a Japanese Peace Garden and further Japan-related education.
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From 2pm on Sunday, 1st August 2021, author and Daiwa Foundation Small Grant recipient Jayne Joso will be introducing her recently published Japan Stories at Herne Hill Books in Herne Hill, London. In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of
Read on14 June 2021
Neighbouring is a 4-day on-line workshop from 15 to 18 June 2021 programmed as a part of Glasgow International 2021 that brings together practitioners from Japan and Scotland to give voice to and partake in a shared desire for closeness and intimacy despite physical separation and barriers to engagement.
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We offer our congratulations to the artist and author Edmund de Waal on having been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on 12 June 2021. Edmund was one of the first recipients of a Daiwa Scholarship, following the establishment of the programme by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 1991. De Waal is renowned
Read on11 June 2021
From Tuesday 15 June 2021, the Japan House Gallery will reopen to the public, with the current exhibition, Beauty and Power by Mika Ninagawa, on display until Friday 30 July (weekdays only, 10:00-17:00). Visitors to the exhibition are required to book in advance and follow COVID-secure protocols while attending. Full guidance for these COVID measures
Read on10 June 2021
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 (September 2020).
Read on9 June 2021
This Japan Foundation event features a group of UK theatre professionals – who have looked towards Japan for source materials in their respective productions – at an informal roundtable talk. We are delighted that Alex Rutter, a 2015 Daiwa Scholar, will be taking part.
Read on3 June 2021
In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of life in contemporary Japan. Meet the sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia-struck father, a young woman who returns to haunt her killer, a widow losing her mind who knits
Read on2 June 2021
Text by former Daiwa Scholar, Michael Reddish.
On Saturday, 4th August 2012, Yusuke Suzuki will represent Japan in the 20km Race Walk. We first met sixteen years ago during my homestay with the Suzuki family as part of my Daiwa Scholarship.
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