News category: Grants

9 January 2023

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from musical performances and workshops with shamisen virtuoso Hidejiro Honjoh, to scientific research into the emergence of life.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: September 2022. Professor Siân Bowen, from Arts University Bournemouth, has received a grant to travel to Japan as part of an interdisciplinary team to explore the integral relationships between plants and

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7 September 2022

Oki performing in the UK from 11 November 2022

Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November.   The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko

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30 June 2022

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from a stage adaption by Joe Hisaishi and the Royal Shakespeare Company of Studio Ghibli’s 1988 animated feature film My Neighbour Totoro to scientific research on the formation of exomoons

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round (March 2022). Academics from Durham University and Niigata University will use a grant to facilitate reciprocal visits, resulting in workshops, collaboration, and research into the materials used in anime production for

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4 May 2022

'Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan' - exhibition to open in September 2022!

In the March 2019 funding round, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Daiwa Foundation Award of £7,000 to English Heritage / Jōmon Archeological Sites World Heritage Inscription Committee to support a visit to Japan (featured on page 25 of  our 2019/20 Annual Review: https://dajf.org.uk/…/Daiwa-Annual-Review-2019-20-Web.pdf). In October 2019, curators and officials from English Heritage, Wiltshire Museum

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8 October 2021

Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan by Dr Jelena Stojković wins Best Art Publication 2021

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: https://dajf.org.uk/event/surrealism-and-photography-in-1930s-japan-the-impossible-avant-garde

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11 August 2021

Sandra Wilson Dundee

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from the innovative use in decorative art of precious metals recovered from electronic waste to scientific research into hydrogen fuel cells

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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