31 October 2025
Noh Reimagined, the festival dedicated to the artistry of Noh theatre, returns to Kings Place, London from 28 to 29 November 2025. Now in its fifth edition, the festival invites audiences to explore the timeless spiritual and aesthetic power of Noh through rare classical performances, cross-cultural innovation, and world premieres that bridge Japan and Scotland in unprecedented
Read on10 October 2025
Multippl are pleased to present Hāfu2Hāfu: a photography exhibition exploring mixed-identity. Hāfu2Hāfu is a project created by Netherlands-based Japanese-Belgian photographer Tetsuro Miyazaki, who set out to photograph a hāfu – a person with one Japanese parent – from every UN-recognised country. Alongside the black and white photographic portraits, taken with hāfu from over 100 countries, are pressing
Read on30 September 2025
The editors of Diversifying Accountability: Exploring Nikkei Struggles for Memory and Redress Around the Globe seek proposals from prospective authors for chapters in this edited scholarly book.
Read on26 September 2025
Matsukaze & Song of Rona Island • Contemporary • Kings Place Date: Sat 29 Nov Start time:7.30pm (Doors: 7pm) Daiwa Scholarships alum Gareth Mattey is the dramaturg for this piece: Song of Rona Island (World Premier) Rona, a tiny island in the Outer Hebrides, was once home to a chapel founded by St Ronan in the
Read on15 September 2025
In a reflection on the current intensification of geopolitical conflicts, the Daiwa Foundation invites visitors to view the video work SCARLET RIVER by Reijiro Wada. It was filmed in 2023 at the Motoyasu River, which flows through the centre of Hiroshima City. The landscape’s associated tragedies are captured through a double-glazed window filled with red wine, creating a scarlet scene.
Read on21 August 2025
The Past Wrongs Future Choices global research network is seeking one undergraduate student research internship from selected UK universities to work with their digital archives and develop public history pieces focussing on the mass internment/incarceration, uprooting, and dispossession by Allied settler nations around the Pacific of their Nikkei populations during the Second World War. Headline
Read on15 August 2025
A Small Grant was awarded in March 2025 to support travel to Kitaushima village, Sado Island by artists Michael Collier, who recorded the sounds of swallows and other birds in order to then render them into visual pieces, and Hazel Barron-Cooper, who conducted research for watercolour paintings. Our funding is also supporting travel by Professor John Williams from Sophia University to screen his documentary film about Kitaushima at the BAJS Conference in Cardiff.
Read on4 July 2025
Playbox Theatre’s touring company consists of 24 members, including 20 young people, who will be working extensively in schools and with participants of Model Language Studio across Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture. Using Playbox Theatre’s signature approach to creative education, Playbox will be delivering English language workshops to hundreds of Japanese students in partnership with the excellent MLS. Playbox’s
Read on19 June 2025
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 32 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: March 2025. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will support the travel of 35 pupils and 4 teaching staff from Gosforth Academy, Newcastle, to a Tokyo school, where
Read on13 June 2025
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall Artist is taking part in two exhibitions this summer: His painting ‘Take Me Anywhere But Here’ has been selected for The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2025, 17 June to 17 August. This will be his fifth year, exhibiting at the Summer Exhibition: ‘Boy & Girl at
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