News category: Scholarships

THE鍵KEY makes its London debut at two festivals in June and August 2019

THE鍵KEY: Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s site-specific, dramatic musical work, inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki’s novelThe Key (1956) featured in Powell Tuck Associates’ event on 27 June 2019 as part of the London Festival of Architecture, and made its UK debut as part of the Tête à Tête Opera Festival in August 2019.

THE鍵KEY received its world premiere to great acclaim at Nakacho House, Tokyo in May 2018, supported by The Mutomai Fund and Kickstarter Donators and went on to have a longer run of performances at Hirakushi Denchu House and Atelier, 19 to 26 May 2019, supported by Arts Council Tokyo and the Japan Arts Council.

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Carl Randall's Waterloo Bridge to be on display at the RA Summer Exhibition 2019

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall will be exhibiting his recent large oil painting Waterloo Bridge, London at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019 from 10  June to 12  August  at The Royal Academy of Arts, central London. Approximately 700 works from public submission were selected from over almost 12,000 international entries.

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Carl Randall's 'Shibuya' used on cover of 'Gateways to Drawing'

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

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Daiwa Scholar, Edmund Stenson's new documentary, "Finding Fukue" wins prize

2017 Daiwa Scholar Edmund Stenson’s new documentary, Finding Fukue  has  won the best film award in the NSI (National Screen Institute Canada) Online Short Film Festival.  The film went live on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) website and on YouTube last year. It reached nearly half a million views in two weeks, and the Foundation

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Daiwa Scholarships and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies: Information Session

We will be holding a talk about the Daiwa Scholarships programme and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies on Wednesday 22nd May at 3pm at  Daiwa Foundation Japan House.

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Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation joins with the Cambridge Trust to fund Master’s students from Japan

A Master’s student from Japan will be able to study at Cambridge from this October thanks to a new scholarship, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Cambridge Scholarship, which will be jointly funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Cambridge Trust. The scholarship will fund the tuition fee for any one-year Master’s course available at the University, up to a cap of £35,000, as well as a stipend. It is tenable at any College within the University of Cambridge. Applicants must be citizens of Japan.

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Tokyo Street Scene by Carl Randall on display at Art Fair Tokyo 2019

A new, large Japan painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is being exhibited at ART FAIR TOKYO 2019, March 7th – 10th, Tokyo Japan. It is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, exhibiting artists include Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Leonard Fujita, Michael Craig-Martin, Taro Okamoto, Julian Opie; as well as a range of more traditional Japanese arts (ink and calligraphy paintings, nihonga, pottery, netsuke).

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Supporting Anglo-Japanese Apple Relations!

As a Daiwa Scholar, Ed Knight spent September 2008 oblivious to the unfolding global financial crisis. He was on his homestay living in the foothills of the Japanese Alps whilst working on a Japanese apple orchard in Nagano prefecture. He has continued to support UK-Japan apple links and recently hosted a group of apple growers from Nagano on a visit to the UK. To find out more, please read on.

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Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded the Ambassador's Commendation

On 29 October 2018, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation was delighted to be awarded the  Ambassador’s Commendation. Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka commended the Foundation for its accomplishments in fostering closer links between Japan and the UK. The award was bestowed during a reception to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Foundation and was attended by many recipients of

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The "Yamatorige” Project: Returning a National Treasure to its Rightful Home

One of our 2017 Daiwa Scholars Tumi Markan is currently helping to run the international component of the campaign – to raise the capital needed to buy the famous “Yamatorige (山鳥毛)”, an art sword designated as a National Treasure of Japan, for the internationally-recognised Bizen Osafune Sword Museum – both creating and running the online crowdfunding page, as well as working with the museum’s master craftspeople to create promotional and informative content for the project.

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