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 on14 May 2022
15 May 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the reversion of Okinawa to Japan. We look back at the past half-century and use interviews with Okinawan people to think from various perspectives about the current situation for Okinawa, which has a different history and culture from mainland Japan. The first interview is with Michio Sakima, Director
Read on4 May 2022
In the March 2019 funding round, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Daiwa Foundation Award of £7,000 to English Heritage / Jōmon Archeological Sites World Heritage Inscription Committee to support a visit to Japan (featured in our 2019/20 Annual Review: http://armanios.co.uk/dev/daiwa2/…/Daiwa-Annual-Review-2019-20-Web.pdf). In October 2019, curators and officials from English Heritage, Wiltshire Museum and Wiltshire Council
Read on3 May 2022
“Frogs, farting competitions, art connoisseurs, courtesans and crows all feature in the art of Kawanabe Kyōsai,- a key Japanese figure who challenged traditions of Japanese art. Kyōsai blurred the lines between popular and elite forms and we take a look at a new exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy.”
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