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12 June 2024

Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange June 2024 - with Yudai Kamisato

Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange June 2024 14-29 June 2024 In this second edition of the Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange, the theme of encounters in theatre will be considered. What happens when we encounter the other in theatre? What are the linguistic and political implications? Just like when we cross borders, misunderstandings, misinterpretations, mistranslations and mis-deliveries

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3 April 2024

Kikuko Kanai's Capriccio Okinawa on BBC Radio 3

Via the link below you can listen to Okinawan composer Kikuko Kanai’s ‘Capriccio Okinawa’, a work from one of the first Japanese women to compose in a western style, and its first performance in the UK. She transcribed traditional Okinawan melodies to use in the work, which also features the instrument at the heart of

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21 March 2024

Art & Exhibitions Grants

Exhibition by Jason-Wilsher Mills - Daiwa Foundation Small Grant recipient - at Wellcome

In 2022 we awarded a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant to enable travel to Japan by the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills. As part of a collaboration with Keio Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) and supported by Arts Council England and Shape Arts, Jason delivered an artist residency and workshops for local disability groups in spring 2023.

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8 February 2024

'On an Endless Road' - a programme of music by and about trailblazing Japanese women

In the satsuma biwa tradition, performers recite tales of historical battles and warriors whilst accompanying themselves on the instrument. When studying the biwa, Francesca Le Lohé began thinking of other kinds of ‘warriors’ and felt the biwa to be the perfect vehicle to engage new audiences with historical trailblazing women. This work celebrates the life of writer and feminist anarchist Itō Noe, killed by Japanese state forces when she was just 28.

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20 September 2023

Japan Recovery in Action - Tohoku's MCT | James Clark & Robbie McKain: 21 September 2023

In 2021 the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Small Grant to support travel writer James Clark and filmmaker Robbie McKain on a trip to Tōhoku in late 2022. They are working on a feature documentary about the resilience of the communities affected by the 2011 tsunami. The documentary follows their journey on the 1,000 kilometre-long

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14 July 2023

Grants

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from a Daido Moriyama retrospective at the Photographers’ Gallery, to research into promoting renewable CO2-free hydrogen and ammonia technologies as future green fuels.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 35 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: March 2023. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will unite Northern Ireland’s taiko drumming with Japan’s world-famous KODO group by supporting Foyle Obon festival directors Fiona and Katsu

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20 June 2023

Carving the Picture Book of Everything with David Bull

In 2022, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Small Grant to the British Museum to support travel to Tokyo by Dr Capucine Korenberg, a senior scientist based at the Scientific Research Department at The British Museum. She travelled to Tokyo to interview and film woodblock printmakers, David Bull and Motoharu Asaka, as they embarked on the

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22 May 2023

Shamisen virtuoso, Hidejiro Honjoh will be performing with the London Sinfonietta on 25 May 2023

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Small Grant to London Sinfonietta in its September 2022 funding round to support travel to the UK by Shamisen virtuoso Hidejiro Honjoh. Honjoh, currently in London, has taken up a residency – culminating in a Shamisen masterclass – at St Ignatius College, a state secondary school for 1,045 eleven

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6 April 2023

Grants

Disaster Preventive Parks - Living with Nature in Tōhoku - Written by Eleni Mente, Small Grant Recipient

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that hit the Tōhoku area in March 2011 was a natural disaster that stayed in the headlines around the world for days. What became known as ‘3/11’ was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, and directly affected four prefectures: Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. The ensuing

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6 March 2023

Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’ on 10 and 11 March 2023 in Oxford

‘Missing bodies, missing voices’ engages critically with historical actors whose movements and words can deepen, challenge and change the accepted conceptual and chronological orders of historical knowledge of postwar Japan.

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