2 March 2018
From 5 to 17 March, Carl Randall’s portraits of movie producer Jeremy Thomas CBE, actor Sir Antony Sher, Gregory Doran, and zoologist Desmond Morris will be exhibited at The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries London, SW1.
Read on22 February 2018
Julie Brook will give an introduction to her land based sculptural work in wild and remote landscapes in Scotland, Libya and NW Namibia and talk about her current project in the Outer Hebrides and Japan: 6pm, 27 February 2018, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Read on12 February 2018
Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Soho Theatre in association with Noda Map present ONE GREEN BOTTLE, by Hideki Noda, translated and adapted by Will Sharpe: the European premiere of an absurd comedy from the team behind the international hit “The Bee”. Showing Friday 27 April – Saturday 19 May 2018 at 7.15pm (matinees 2.30pm).
Read on1 February 2018
Mami Mizutori, a Trustee of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, is named Assistant Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Read on24 January 2018
We are looking to take interns to join the events team at the Foundation to assist in planning, preparing and coordinating our events. Our programme covers a wide range of events related to Japan, including lectures, seminars, book launches, culinary tastings and exhibitions. To apply, please send your CV to nana.ota@dajf.org.uk by Friday 23rd February 2018.
Read on22 January 2018
The Little Mochi Man is A Thousand Cranes’ new show for children aged 4 -7, their family and friends. It tells the tale of the runaway Mochi Man who escapes from the larder in search of adventure across Japan. The production is on national tour from 28 January to 30 May 2018. Venues include Watermans, Half Moon, artsdepot, the egg, Nuffield, Greenwich Theatre, The Cockpit, Cambridge Junction, The Courtyard, Hereford, Polka Theatre, Stratford Circus, The Civic Barnsley, Little Angel and Salisbury Playhouse.
Read on16 January 2018
Charlotte Payne, a former Daiwa Scholar and Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholar, is a PhD candidate based at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. She is investigating the potential impacts of increased consumption of edible insects and looking at the potential of edible insects to meet the current need for a protein source that is
Read on15 December 2017
The featured two miniature paintings are included in the group exhibition Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork St. Central London, 14th December 2017 – 6th January 2018. Flowers is one of the UK’s leading commercial galleries, with galleries in New York, Central London and East London, representing prominent British figurative painters such as Peter Howson, Ken
Read on29 November 2017
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of grants awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (September 2017). The Foundation will support artists Eleanor Morgan and Sam Curtis to travel to Japan to enhance their skills in “gyotaku” or fish rubbing, after which they will run workshops in London to encourage people to learn about ocean ecology.
Read on27 November 2017
Applications are invited for either of the above posts, which will initially be based in the Sainsbury Institute’s offices in the Cathedral Close, Norwich and later to be based on the UEA campus in the Norwich Research Park when the Institute is relocated within a few years. The successful candidate will strengthen the Institute’s research profile, develop and deliver its new MA teaching
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