21 March 2024
In 2022 we awarded a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant to enable travel to Japan by the artist Jason Wilsher-Mills. As part of a collaboration with Keio Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) and supported by Arts Council England and Shape Arts, Jason delivered an artist residency and workshops for local disability groups in spring 2023.
Read on23 February 2024
Mister Timeless Blyth by Alan Spence (Tuttle) has been longlisted for the The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Imprisoned as a conscientious objector during the first World War and interned as an enemy alien in Japan during the second, Reginald Horace Blyth was a poet, a scholar, a musician, a linguist and a man
Read on8 February 2024
In the satsuma biwa tradition, performers recite tales of historical battles and warriors whilst accompanying themselves on the instrument. When studying the biwa, Francesca Le Lohé began thinking of other kinds of ‘warriors’ and felt the biwa to be the perfect vehicle to engage new audiences with historical trailblazing women. This work celebrates the life of writer and feminist anarchist Itō Noe, killed by Japanese state forces when she was just 28.
Read on8 February 2024
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Dr Christopher Harding will be on Start the Week on BBC Radion 4 on 12 February talking about his new book, The Light of Asia. “The writer Christopher Harding takes a closer look at the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America. In his book, The Light of Asia,
Read on20 December 2023
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 29 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: September 2023. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will support travel to the UK by performance duo Usaginingen (pictured) to perform the UK premiere of their new work
Read on20 November 2023
On Friday 19 January 2024, the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition will present a celebratory evening of chamber music from current competition winner Can Çakmur and Chairperson Noriko Ogawa, plus special guests, to mark the launch of the 2024 Competition. https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/classical/can-cakmur-and-friends/ 6.30pm – 7pm Pre-concert talk with Noriko Ogawa and Claire Jackson, former editor of International
Read on23 October 2023
Rebellious Bodies is a brand new festival across the UK to reintroduce audiences to Butoh, the ground-breaking Japanese dance form.
Read on12 October 2023
Japan-Britain Contemporary Theatre Exchange will take place on Thursday and Friday, 2 and 3 November 2023 in Lancaster and on 6 November in Salford. The programme includes site-specific theatre workshop ‘Democracy as a Verb’ led by the award-winning Japanese theatre director Yuta Hagiwara from Tokyo, lectures by one of the leading Japanese theatre scholars Professor
Read on2 October 2023
Clifton Scientific Trust works to develop and implement innovative programmes that engage school students of all ages and backgrounds in new ways with working scientists, engineers and medics, locally, nationally and internationally.
The ideal candidate will have imagination, creativity, leadership and teamworking skills, experience in fundraising and building partnership networks. He/she would be expected to have some knowledge of schools at primary and secondary level, a broad understanding of science/engineering and some knowledge of Japan.
Read on2 October 2023
