6 July 2021
On Thursday 17th June 2021, the jury for the 9th iteration of the UK’s largest contemporary arts prize – Artes Mundi – voted unanimously to divide a £60,000 prize fund among all six shortlisted candidates. On this landmark award, stated by Art Asia Pacific to be ‘the highest-valued contemporary art award in the United Kingdom’,
Read on28 June 2021
In 2019, supported with a Daiwa Foundation Award, ten primary school children from five Coventry primary schools travelled to Japan. The pupils collaborated with five schools in Japan on Olympic-based projects. Outcomes of the project have been far-reaching, including a Japan Arts Festival in Coventry, an Olympic Torch relay between 60 Coventry schools, a Japanese Peace Garden and further Japan-related education.
Read on27 June 2021
From 2pm on Sunday, 1st August 2021, author and Daiwa Foundation Small Grant recipient Jayne Joso will be introducing her recently published Japan Stories at Herne Hill Books in Herne Hill, London. In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of
Read on14 June 2021
Neighbouring is a 4-day on-line workshop from 15 to 18 June 2021 programmed as a part of Glasgow International 2021 that brings together practitioners from Japan and Scotland to give voice to and partake in a shared desire for closeness and intimacy despite physical separation and barriers to engagement.
Read on10 June 2021
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 (September 2020).
Read on3 June 2021
In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of life in contemporary Japan. Meet the sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia-struck father, a young woman who returns to haunt her killer, a widow losing her mind who knits
Read on31 March 2021
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.
Read on10 March 2021
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.
Read on15 December 2020
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
Read on15 November 2020
The publication ‘Japan: Courts and Culture’ tells the story of 400 years of British royal contact with Japan. It explores how exquisite decorative arts were central both to direct diplomatic relations and to indirect cultural connection. On 16 July at 6pm, Rachel Peat from the Royal Collection Trust will be discussing her new book ‘Japan: Courts and Culture’ with Professor Nicole Rousmaniere.
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