21 April 2022
大和日英基金は30年以上にわたり日英交流の促進に貢献してきました。 基金の活動内容については 以下をご覧ください。 https://dajf.org.uk/ja/about 東京事務局では現在3名で運営していますが、日本での活動を支えるフルタイムの職員を募集しています。 英語が堪能で ボランティア精神をもって職務に取り組んでくれる方を希望します。 勤務地：四ツ谷（駅から徒歩5分） 勤務時間：9:00～18:00 関心のある方は東京事務局宛にお問い合わせください。 tokyo.office@dajf.org 03-3222-1205
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Composer and Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Francesca Le Lohé’s new original musical drama is inspired by ŌGAI Mori’s novel Vita Sexualis. Ōgai was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. The musical drama will be performed in Tokyo on 19 and 20 May 2022! “Stumbling across the long-forgotten diary of an ancestor, a young woman is
Read on31 March 2022
With more luggage than one person probably needs, I boarded my flight to Tokyo on the 21st of March, arriving on the 22nd in time to start the new semester at Waseda University. I’m currently in a share house living situation, and although I planned to start my search for more permanent accommodation right away, a surprising
Read on25 March 2022
The book provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan’s future relations with the world
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The Daiwa Foundation is proud to announce that Yukako Tanaka has been shortlisted for this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize.
Read on21 January 2022
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.
Read on1 January 2022
“Drive My Car” takes a meditative trip down memory lane. Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryusuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss. Here you can read a super review of the film by Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Dr Becca Voelcker.
Read on3 December 2021
Artist and Daiwa scholarship alumnus Carl Randall has been invited for a fifth consecutive year to take part in Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork St., Mayfair London. The exhibition features small scale works by internationally recognised artists, and is running until 8 January 2022. Carl lived in Tokyo for 10 years,
Read on27 November 2021
Welcome to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration instalments to see us through the Covid-19 period of staying at home. We are intent on continuing to support closer links between the UK and Japan. We hope that these weekly digests of news will allow everyone at home to continue engaging with Japan.
Read on25 November 2021
Having been available for sale through the National Portrait Gallery London shop over the past few years, prints of Carl Randall’s paintings are now available to purchase directly from the artist. Limited edition signed giclee prints of his Japan and London paintings, as well a selection of signed and mounted drawings, can be purchased via
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