5 May 2021
オスカー受賞者・映画プロデューサージェレミートーマスによる講演会
本講演会ではオスカー受賞者の映画監督兼プロデューサー、ジェレミー・トーマス氏が、日本の文化が邦画界に及ぼしている影響について、また何故日本人の映画監督や俳優と仕事をするようになったかを語ります。監督がどのように脚本プロジェクトと向き合い、世界中の観客を魅了し続けているのかを探ります。司会は、映画プロデューサーの市山尚三氏が担当。
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30 April 2021
Children's Day activities at Pantechnicon London 1-3 May 2021
One for families, teachers and anyone who wants to get creative!
Join in the fun for Japanese Children’s Day this coming bank holiday weekend (1 to 3 May) at Pantechnicon, London with taiyaki ice creams and koi carp flag-making with Danish illustrator Alfred Bramsen.
20 April 2021
Announcing the Daiwa Scholars and Daiwa Scholars in Japanese Studies 2021
Announcing the new Daiwa Scholars 2021, Jason James, Director General of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, said: “We held Zoom interviews on 5 March and selected four new recipients of Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies, which support postgraduates in this field. Part of these interviews takes place in Japanese, which must be daunting for the candidates!
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Small Grant recipient, Professor Apala Majumdar awarded the Suffrage Science Award!
Very many congratulations are due to Professor Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde) on her Suffrage Science Award! She is also a recipient of a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant. Professor Majumdar specialises in the mathematics and modelling of nematic liquid crystals and partially ordered materials, including their applications in industry.
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Music from Fukushima: The Miracle of the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta have made a video showing how individual members and the whole community have benefitted from coming together and making music in the wake of the tsunami.
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Carl Randall speaking with Metralla Rosa on career and his Japan and London paintings
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was recently interviewed, speaking with Carla Tofano for Metralla Rosa (a channle dedicated to in-depth conversations with prominent personalities in the creative world) about his Japan and London paintings, and his development/career in general. This link takes you to an accompanying page to the interview, with introductory text
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Women Make Animation: Animated Shorts from Japan on/from 13 March 2021
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2021, WOW Women’s Film Club invited Eiko Meredith, the director of Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival, to hand-pick a selection of animated shorts crafted by up-and-coming female animators working in Japan, and to organise an online Creative Workshop by Japanese animator and illustrator Chie Arai. The Japanese shorts can be watched live via the Eventive website on 13 March, and will remain available for a week.
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"An Affair with a Village" - Professor Joy Hendry's latest book
Released on Monday 15th February 2021, Extremis Publishing is pleased to announce a new book by Professor Joy Hendry. In An Affair with a Village, the renowned and award-winning anthropologist relates her experiences with the remarkable village of Kurotsuchi, where she undertook a year’s fieldwork as a doctoral student. She made a number of wonderful friends, and over
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Kathleen Reilly at work in Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata
Kathleen Reilly, one of the 2019 Daiwa Scholars, is an artist and metalworker. In February 2021 she was featured on Japanese television to highlight her current work placement in Niigata Prefecture’s Tsubame-Sanjo, an area celebrated for its metalworking factories and workshops.
Read on15 December 2020
The Octopus & FOUND KOBE JAPAN
For the last three years, artist Stefan Jennings and photographer Jane Kelly have been researching and working on FOUND KOBE JAPAN. This project centres on an anonymous photographic album that was found dumped in a skip and which depicts a life lived in Japan in the 1920s, focusing on the international community living in Japan
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