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31 October 2025

Noh Reimagined 2025 - crowdfunding campaign

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

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10 October 2025

Hāfu2Hāfu: A Photography exhibition exploring mixed-identity makes its UK debut: 16 to 30 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

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26 September 2025

Song of Rona Island (World Premier)

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

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15 September 2025

Special Video Screening: Scarlet River by Reijiro Wada - showing until Monday 20 October

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.

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21 August 2025

Overseas Undergraduate Research Internship (University of Victoria Canada) - Second World War Nikkei Persecution around the Pacific

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

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15 August 2025

Exploring a Japanese Fishing Village through Art

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.

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4 July 2025

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is thrilled to be supporting Playbox Theatre's trip to Japan in 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

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19 June 2025

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from a taiko performance at the 50th Japan Week in Manchester to an analysis of multispectral images of asteroid samples

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

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