18 November 2024
Having previously been Headmaster of Tonbridge School, Christopher faced a very different challenge at the Daiwa Foundation, where he had to start pretty much from scratch, hiring staff and designing programmes to realise the ambitions of its founder, Yoshitoki Chino KBE, Chairman of Daiwa Securities.
Read on5 November 2024
Upon entering Hackney’s Hoxton Hall on a Saturday evening in October, visitors were greeted by a sign in Japanese calligraphy that said ‘Kannazuki’ or ‘Godless month’—a reference to the Shinto tradition of October as a month without gods. The venue, originally built for Victorian-era working-class East Londoners, had been transformed into the setting for ‘Ura Matsuri’ or ‘Ura’ Festival—where ‘ura’ means ‘flip side’ or ‘the other side’. ‘Alt-festival’ is an approximate translation, in the sense that the event was characterised by its unconventionality, gleefully turning things upside down (perhaps while the gods weren’t looking).
Read on21 September 2024
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 2024. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will support a free one-day event exploring the culture of the shakuhachi, consisting of a film screening, talks, and performances.
Read on17 September 2024
Filmmaker and Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Edmund Stenson’s latest film will be shown at the BFI this October. Blink is directed by Edmund Stenson and Daniel Roher (the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny is one of their previous films). The screenings are as follows: 13 October, 11:45 14 October, 18:15 19 October, 12:45 The trailer can be found
Read on12 September 2024
– Date and Time: Saturday 19th October (Doors 6:30pm / Show 7pm) – Location: Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London N1 6SH – Ticket price: £12 / £15 plus booking fee Press Release can be found here – Line-up: Frank Chickens / Beibei Wang / Vera Chok / NO CARS / Tenzin Sisters / Kamura Obscure / Mai & Fear
Read on10 September 2024
Artist and metalworker and Daiwa Scholarships alumna Kathleen Reilly will be taking part in this year’s London Design Festival which runs from 14 to 22 September. She will also be giving talks at Japan House London on 14 September and at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on 24 September about her knife design: Oku. An Oku
Read on6 September 2024
On 24 October, campaigner, writer and former Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas will discuss her new book Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story with master potter, artist, writer and former Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Edmund de Waal, for whom notions of migration, culture and identity have long been a focus, through projects
Read on30 August 2024
In our March 2024 grants round we awarded funding to support travel to the UK by Japanese mask maker Hideta Kitazawa. He will participate in a series of events connected to Nohgaku (noh and kyogen). He will deliver mask-making demonstrations and engage in talks at, amongst other locations, the British Library, Japan House London, Durham University’s
Read on28 August 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Joel Littler, Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies (alumnus), has been awarded a prestigious Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies. These Fellowships provide recent graduates with the opportunity to continue their doctoral research at Harvard and produce publishable work from their dissertations. We wish him all the very
Read on27 August 2024
The 33rd Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Japanese will be held on Tuesday 5 November 2024. The closing date for applications is 22 September 2024. For more information and an application form: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/33rd-sir-peter-parker-awards-spoken-business-japanese A flyer can be found here .
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