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 on27 October 2021
The Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference will take place on Friday 29 October 2021, 3pm to 8pm as part of the Japan 2021 Humanities Cultural Programme led by the University of Oxford, 22 October to 10 December 2021. The conference features Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies alumnus, Warren Stanislaus. “This conference will explore how the
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2019 Daiwa Scholar Kathleen Reilly has been selected to take part in Designart Tokyo 2021, one of Japan’s largest design and art festivals from 22 to 31 October 2021. This year’s exhibition theme is “chance”. Here you can see a video of Kathleen being interviewed about her work.
Read on8 October 2021
Many congratulations to Dr Jelena Stojković whose book Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan was awarded the Best Art Publication 2021 in the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2021. We were delighted to support her research with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant and hosted her talk/book launch on 9 September 2020: http://armanios.co.uk/dev/daiwa2/event/surrealism-and-photography-in-1930s-japan-the-impossible-avant-garde
Read on6 October 2021
The Purpose of Capitalism: Lessons from Japan, is directed by Daiwa Scholarship alumna (1999) Victoria James, and will soon be aired on CNBC. It takes an inside look at some of the largest and oldest Japanese companies to find the answer. While the Western business world wakes up to ‘purpose’ as a means to address
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