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14 April 2020

Carl Randall selected for this year's Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, May 2020

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was selected for this  year’s Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, at the Mall Galleries London. Due to include one of his privately commissioned portrait paintings, the exhibition was planned to be held at the gallery from 7 to 22 May 2020. This has been postponed or cancelled due to recent events; however, the exhibition can still be viewed online.

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26 March 2020

A personal account of the 2018 Daiwa Scholars Graduation in Tokyo

And there it came. At what would in normal circumstances already have been a busy time for Daiwa Scholars, with most of them moving homes, settling bills and having to say goodbye to friends made, far bigger problems in the world meant that for most of us, the Daiwa Scholars Graduation Ceremony became almost a side-show.

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24 March 2020

Joy Hendry with the Kumagai Family

45 years of Research in Japan

In autumn 2019, the anthropologist Professor Joy Hendry returned to the village of Kurotsuchi in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan to present and work on historical materials, and to gather data for a final book-length account of her long-term fieldwork in the area. Here you can watch her son’s evocative film ‘Understanding Japanese Culture – 45 years researching a village in rural Japan’.

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18 February 2020

Carl Randall exhibiting at Christie's Auction House on Thursday 20 February

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been invited to exhibit at Christie’s auction house London this Thursday, 20  February, as part of of a fund-raising event for The Art Academy London (an independent central London art school he occasionally gives workshops at).  Link below the event (artists showing): [DOWNLOAD text=”Silent Auction for Art Academy”

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18 February 2020

Former Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has received The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette

The Government of Japan has conferred The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette upon Professor Marie Conte-Helm in recognition of her long-standing dedication and significant contribution to the promotion of mutual understanding and cultural exchange between Japan and the United Kingdom. The ceremony took place on Thursday 30 January 2020. As Director General

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22 January 2020

Wolverhampton Literature Festival: Kazuo Ishiguro, Perspectives from Japan

This event invites critics from Japan to give their culturally specific perspective on one of the finest and most loved writers of or time: Kazuo Ishiguro.  Which Japanese literature, cinema and the culture have had a formative impact on Ishiguro’s authorship?  How Japanese is Ishiguro anyway? Whilst Motoko Sugano will show war paintings that informed Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World, other

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