Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from robots to rugby

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of grants awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round. One researcher from Swansea University will travel to Fukuoka University to research the most effective way to kick a rugby ball and to deliver public workshops on science in rugby ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. The Foundation will also support Science Museum’s upcoming exhibition ‘Robots’, featuring Japanese technology and robots such as ASIMO and Pepper. One Taiko drummer and one senior monk at Dojoji Temple will travel to the UK to perform and tour with Taiko Meantime’s production, ‘Dojoji’. This traditional Noh story tells the tale of a monk who was burnt to death in a temple bell by his scorned lover, who transformed into a snake to indict her revenge.

A number of Daiwa Foundation Awards are given to large-scale collaborations between British and Japanese institutions. Researchers from Imperial College London and Kyoto University will carry out research at healthcare facilities in the UK and Japan to establish the best ways to address the problem of global antimicrobial resistance. Kew Foundation, Tokyo University Museum and the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo also received a Daiwa Foundation Award to support ‘Flora Japonica’, an exhibition of botanical art created by contemporary Japanese artists. It will be exhibited at Kew Gardens from autumn 2016 and in Tokyo from autumn 2017.

A complete list of projects supported in the latest funding round, with amounts granted, can be seen at the Foundation’s website: http://www.dajf.org.uk/grants-awards-prizes/recently-funded.

 

Background information:

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity, established in 1988 with a generous benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd. The Foundation’s purpose is to support closer links between Great Britain and Japan. It does this by awarding grants and scholarships in all fields of activity; by supporting educational exchanges and other bilateral initiatives between British and Japanese academics and students; and by organising a year-round events’ programme at Daiwa Foundation Japan House in London to increase understanding of Japan in the UK. The Foundation is represented in Japan by its Tokyo office. Further information about the Foundation and its activities is available at www.dajf.org.uk

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