27 October 2021
The Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference will take place on Friday 29 October 2021, 3pm to 8pm as part of the Japan 2021 Humanities Cultural Programme led by the University of Oxford, 22 October to 10 December 2021. The conference features Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies alumnus, Warren Stanislaus. “This conference will explore how the
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2019 Daiwa Scholar Kathleen Reilly has been selected to take part in Designart Tokyo 2021, one of Japan’s largest design and art festivals from 22 to 31 October 2021. This year’s exhibition theme is “chance”. Here you can see a video of Kathleen being interviewed about her work.
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Many congratulations to Dr Jelena Stojković whose book Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan was awarded the Best Art Publication 2021 in the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2021. We were delighted to support her research with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant and hosted her talk/book launch on 9 September 2020: http://armanios.co.uk/dev/daiwa2/event/surrealism-and-photography-in-1930s-japan-the-impossible-avant-garde
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The Purpose of Capitalism: Lessons from Japan, is directed by Daiwa Scholarship alumna (1999) Victoria James, and will soon be aired on CNBC. It takes an inside look at some of the largest and oldest Japanese companies to find the answer. While the Western business world wakes up to ‘purpose’ as a means to address
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The BFI has very generously shared a great offer (2 tickets for the price of 1) for the duration of their fabulous JAPAN 2021: 100 YEARS OF JAPANESE CINEMA season, running from October to December. Simply quote JAPAN241 when booking! https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/article/japan
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1) The flagship Daiwa Scholarships programme was established in 1991. It is a unique 19-month programme of language study, work placement, and homestay in Japan, following a month of Japanese language study in the UK. It only open to UK nationals.
2) The Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies is a postgraduate scholarship programme to support the study of Japanese Studies in either Japan or the UK. Only UK citizens who hold or are completing a degree in Japanese Studies, defined as a course focussing primarily on the study of Japan, and containing a substantial Japanese language component are eligible to apply.
9 September 2021
Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival returns this month as Chapter’s first visiting film festival since lockdown measures ended. Although the festival screenings will have reduced seating due to social distancing, there’s still a great programme of events, with films such as The Deer King, Ride Your Wave, On-Gaku, and Studio Ghibli’s latest Earwig and the Witch. An important part of
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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 (March 2021). Dr Catherine Butler from Cardiff University will travel to Japan to research the popularity of British children’s literature in Japan, and its influence on Japanese literature and popular culture, leading to a published monograph.
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In this radio essay, former Daiwa Scholar Dr Chris Harding recalls the first time Tokyo was due to host the Olympic Games in 1940 and talks about Daimatsu ‘The Demon’ Hirobumi – the zealous coach who achieved a gold medal for Japan’s women’s volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics. It makes for a fabulous listen!
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On Thursday 17th June 2021, the jury for the 9th iteration of the UK’s largest contemporary arts prize – Artes Mundi – voted unanimously to divide a £60,000 prize fund among all six shortlisted candidates. On this landmark award, stated by Art Asia Pacific to be ‘the highest-valued contemporary art award in the United Kingdom’,
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