8 July 2020
In the fourteenth installment of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration newsletter, the Foundation’s Director General Jason James proposed to publish his translation of “Yoshino Kuzu” by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki at the rate of one chapter a week (there are six chapters in total).
Read on24 June 2020
On 24 June 2020, author and Daiwa Scholarship alumna Natasha Pulley spoke about her latest novel, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow. This sequel to The Watchmaker of Filigree Street takes readers to Japan, “where time, destiny and love collide to electrifying effect.” The video is available to watch on Exeter Library’s Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/ExeterLibrary/videos/679855939232329/ Natasha spoke about and
Read on16 April 2019
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s Japan drawing ‘Shibuya’ has been used on the front cover of Gateways to Drawing, A Complete Guide, a book about drawing published by Thames & Hudson. Inside features drawings by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, van Gogh, Raphael, Durer, Ingres, Ando Hiroshige, Breughel, Daumier, Cezanne, Delacroix, William Blake, Alice
Read on8 February 2019
Japan Now is the chance to explore contemporary writing and culture from Japan. With a new wave of Japanese fiction hitting UK bookshelves, meet the writers alongside translators and contemporary artists at this annual event, exploring gender, history, society and everything in between. It will be held from 18th-25th February.
Read on14 February 2017
Japan Now returns to the British Library on Saturday, 25 February with a packed day exploring contemporary writing and culture from this fascinating country. Alex Kerr, author of Lost Japan, reflects on the beauty and destruction of the Japanese landscape, and leading writers, including Hiromi Kawakami, author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, Masatsugu Ono and
Read on10 November 2015
Former Daiwa Scholar (2012-2013) Eluned Gramich’s memoir of her homestay on the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Woman Who Brings the Rain has been published as an ebook after being awarded the WWF Cymru Prize for Writing on Nature and the Environment in February
Read on29 June 2015
You can listen to 2013 Daiwa Scholar Natasha Pulley talking with Jeremy Sallis on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.
Read on23 July 2014
Although most of the Japanese events are featured at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, there are a few unmissable events at the Edinburgh Book Festival and International Festival. Be sure to check out Haruki Murakami’s new book release, and Midori 2’s concert recital in which she brings the two genres of classical and electronic music together, featuring Mario Davidovsky.
Read on15 July 2014
Hyper Japan returns to Earl’s Court this summer with an exciting line up of events, covering all aspects of popular and traditional Japanese culture. Ranging from food, gaming, anime and technology, the unmissable event opens its doors on the 25th of July and runs through the weekend to the 27th.
Read on27 June 2014
Eluned Gramich completed a BA at the University of Oxford, and an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She participated on the Daiwa Scholarship 2012 programme, to explore Japan’s literature and culture. Her first published short story, Oku Hanafu was published in ‘Rarebit’, edited by Susie Wild in 2014.
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