News tag: environment

Pureism Supperclub Review

Thanks to Pureism Shojin Ryori supperclub, I got the unique chance to sample beautifully presented Buddhist inspired cuisine whilst enjoying traditional Japanese music in a cosy North London venue.

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Japanese and European scientists studying the effects of ocean acidification

Scientists from Shimoda Marine Station at the University of Tsukuba have found volcanic vent systems off Shikine Island which release millions of litres of CO₂ per day. This provides a hugely exciting opportunity

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Former Daiwa Scholar Eluned Gramich has won the New Welsh Writing Award

Former Daiwa Scholar Eluned Gramich has won the inaugural New Welsh Writing Award which celebrates the finest non-fiction writing (in short form) on the theme of nature and the environment. Her winning essay, Scenes of a Hokkaidan Life, was about her homestay in Hokkaido while on the Daiwa Scholarship programme. It will be published in the summer edition of the New Welsh Review.

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'Fog invites people' - Fujiko Nakaya, 'Fog Bridge' artist, was in conversation at Tate Modern on 17 February 2015

Over a career spanning 40 years, Fujiko Nakaya has pioneered the use of water vapour as a sculptural media. Nakaya has fabulous English, so it was not surprising to hear that she had gone to school in Chicago. Later on she returned to New York to study. In her entertaining talk at Tate Modern yesterday, 17 February 2015, she gave an overview of her work and also engaged in a question and answer session. She is effortlessly charming and humorous.

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Fog Bridge by Fujiko Nakaya in Bristol, 13 to 22 February 2014

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?

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Two-Day Seminar on Energy Policy, Media Representations, and Public Perception of Nuclear Power after the Fukushima Disaster, 19-20 September 2013

The Welsh School of Architecture and the School of Psychology were delighted to present a 2-day seminar at Cardiff University, on 19-20 September,  bringing together academics from the UK and Japan in the area of energy policy, media studies, and risk perception.

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A Scholar's research into traditional insect cuisine in Japan

Charlotte Payne, a 2009 Daiwa Scholar, worked in the Kobokan community centre in Sumida-ku, and also as a researcher on Yakushima island, in Kagoshima during the work placement part of the programme.

Leaving Japan at the end of the Scholarship in March 2011, Charlotte went on to work with an NGO in India, and with the Medical Research Council and Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford.

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Joint research by the University of East Anglia and Hokkaido University into the changing Antarctic Ocean

Professor Shigeru Aoki, a researcher of the Antarctic Ocean at Hokkaido University, is currently engaged in collaborative research with Professor Karen Heywood, a world-leading scientist of Antarctic Ocean dynamics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in Norwich. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to have awarded him a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant. Professor Aoki has kindly written about his

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