25 March 2022
The book provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan’s future relations with the world
Read on2 March 2022
The Daiwa Foundation is proud to announce that Yukako Tanaka has been shortlisted for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize.
Read on21 January 2022
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round.
Read on1 January 2022
“Drive My Car” takes a meditative trip down memory lane. Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryusuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss. Here you can read a super review of the film by Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Dr Becca Voelcker.
Read on3 December 2021
Artist and Daiwa scholarship alumnus Carl Randall has been invited for a fifth consecutive year to take part in Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork St., Mayfair London. The exhibition features small scale works by internationally recognised artists, and is running until 8 January 2022. Carl lived in Tokyo for 10 years,
Read on27 November 2021
Welcome to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration instalments to see us through the Covid-19 period of staying at home. We are intent on continuing to support closer links between the UK and Japan. We hope that these weekly digests of news will allow everyone at home to continue engaging with Japan.
Read on25 November 2021
Having been available for sale through the National Portrait Gallery London shop over the past few years, prints of Carl Randall’s paintings are now available to purchase directly from the artist. Limited edition signed giclee prints of his Japan and London paintings, as well a selection of signed and mounted drawings, can be purchased via
Read on19 November 2021
Japan: Courts and Culture opens at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace on 8 April 2022.
It will continue until 12 March 2023.
10 November 2021
Many congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alumna and award-winning author Dr Eluned Gramich on wining the Ghastling Novella Prize with her new story, Sleep Training! “This book was a clear winner from the outset. It is a story that addresses and explores motherhood and female experience; childbirth and postnatal depression with authenticity. This story breaks the
Read on4 November 2021
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was recently commissioned by Bob Bob Ricard to create a series of four new portrait paintings of restaurateurs and people in the hospitality industry for their new £30 million restaurant in the Leadenhall building in the City of London. The portraits depict celebrated French chef and author
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