27 July 2021
In this radio essay, former Daiwa Scholar Dr Chris Harding recalls the first time Tokyo was due to host the Olympic Games in 1940 and talks about Daimatsu ‘The Demon’ Hirobumi – the zealous coach who achieved a gold medal for Japan’s women’s volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics. It makes for a fabulous listen!
Read on14 June 2021
We offer our congratulations to the artist and author Edmund de Waal on having been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on 12 June 2021. Edmund was one of the first recipients of a Daiwa Scholarship, following the establishment of the programme by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 1991. De Waal is renowned
Read on9 June 2021
This Japan Foundation event features a group of UK theatre professionals – who have looked towards Japan for source materials in their respective productions – at an informal roundtable talk. We are delighted that Alex Rutter, a 2015 Daiwa Scholar, will be taking part.
Read on2 June 2021
Text by former Daiwa Scholar, Michael Reddish.
On Saturday, 4th August 2012, Yusuke Suzuki will represent Japan in the 20km Race Walk. We first met sixteen years ago during my homestay with the Suzuki family as part of my Daiwa Scholarship.
Read on20 April 2021
Announcing the new Daiwa Scholars 2021, Jason James, Director General of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, said: “We held Zoom interviews on 5 March and selected four new recipients of Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies, which support postgraduates in this field. Part of these interviews takes place in Japanese, which must be daunting for the candidates!
Read on9 March 2021
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was recently interviewed, speaking with Carla Tofano for Metralla Rosa (a channle dedicated to in-depth conversations with prominent personalities in the creative world) about his Japan and London paintings, and his development/career in general. This link takes you to an accompanying page to the interview, with introductory text
Read on11 February 2021
Kathleen Reilly, one of the 2019 Daiwa Scholars, is an artist and metalworker. In February 2021 she was featured on Japanese television to highlight her current work placement in Niigata Prefecture’s Tsubame-Sanjo, an area celebrated for its metalworking factories and workshops.
Read on3 December 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been invited to exhibit two artworks in this year’s Small is Beautiful exhibition at Flowers Gallery, until 10 January 2021. Flowers is one of the UK’s leading commercial galleries, with galleries in New York, Hong Kong, East and Central London; representing prominent British figurative painters such as
Read on20 November 2020
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been selected for this year’s ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, with a new painting ‘On the Horizon (After Lucas & Kuruganti)’. The event, sponsored by ING bank, is usually held at The Mall Galleries in London, but this year due to coronavirus is held exclusively online. The exhibition runs until 31 December 2020, and all works are for sale.
Read on5 November 2020
Former Daiwa Scholar Dr Christopher Harding’s new book, ‘The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives’ was published in November 2020.
The book’s twenty portraits take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako, via shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers.
