22 January 2015
We are very sad to report that Lord Brittan, a long-standing Trustee and supporter of the Foundation, has died. Our heartfelt condolences to his family.
Read on20 January 2015
The British Association for Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation are delighted to announce that the annual Japan Foundation / BAJS Post-Graduate Workshop will be held on Wednesday 11th March, 2015 in Leeds.
Read on15 January 2015
Fog Bridge by Fujiko Nakaya, part of: IBT15 Bristol International Festival. Watch Pero’s Bridge disappear behind a veil of fog… The world is getting warmer – but how will this change our weather? And how might a changing climate disrupt our lives?
Read on14 January 2015
Carl Randall, former Daiwa Scholar, has been invited to be part of a discussion panel at The London Art Fair, on the theme of Art, Identity and Migration on Friday 23rd January, 1- 2 pm at The Business Design Centre, Islington.
Read on8 January 2015
Kentaro Kobayashi, the award-winning Japanese comedian, playwright, performer, is coming to London in February 2015 to unveil his brand new show Mr Potsunen’s Peculiar Slice of Life. Mr Potsunen’s Peculiar Slice of Life (UK Premiere) will be shown on at 7:30pm on 3 and 4 February 2015 at Leicester Square Theatre, London.
Read on8 January 2015
Founded in 2009, Flash of Splendour is a groundbreaking non-profit organisation, working to empower marginalised, disabled and institutionalised children and young people through the arts. Inclusivity is key to its practice. As a pioneering children’s creative arts organisation, it works with music, literature and poetry, the visual arts and theatre to transform lives.
Read on10 December 2014
Two former Daiwa Scholars, Edmund de Waal and Merryn Somerset Webb, are taking part in the Financial Times Seasonal Appeal auction (a tour with Edmund and lunch with Merryn). The Financial Times Seasonal Appeal is supporting the International Rescue Committee.
Read on9 December 2014
A Tale of Samurai Cooking – A True Love Story (Bushi no kondate) is a Japanese film directed by Yûzô Asahara (2013, 122 Minutes). Its UK release date is 12 December 2014, from when it will show at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema. Bookings are now available: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/details/2773/a-tale-of-samurai-cooking–special-introduction/. Here is a review by Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian). Mark Kermode reviews it here and your can hear him talking about it via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOCkdUINDM.
Read on8 December 2014
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has published details of grants awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (September 2014 round). The Barbican’s ‘Ninagawa at 80 season’ will comprise two new stage adaptations to mark theatre director Yukio Ninagawa’s 80th year: Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, playing from 21-30 May 2015. Another project supported is research by academics from Queen’s University Belfast collaborating with the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, to unravel the ecology of an understudied, globally distributed predator, the ocean sunfish.
Read on5 December 2014
Since 2007, the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University, Japan Campus has hosted summer interns from many universities across the world. These unpaid summer internships for non-TUJ students (undergraduate and graduate) offer a unique opportunity to spend a productive summer in Tokyo. Below is the summary of the programme.
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