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8 September 2023

Job opportunity at the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

Our friends at the Great Britain-Sasakawa Foundation are inviting applications for the role of Programmes Executive at The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (GBSF). GBSF supports educational cultural and scientific links between Japan and the UK. The Programmes Executive plays a key role in a small team in London and Tokyo in ensuring that the impact of the grant activity contributes to making a difference in UK-Japan Relations.

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14 July 2023

Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from a Daido Moriyama retrospective at the Photographers’ Gallery, to research into promoting renewable CO2-free hydrogen and ammonia technologies as future green fuels.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 35 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: March 2023. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will unite Northern Ireland’s taiko drumming with Japan’s world-famous KODO group by supporting Foyle Obon festival directors Fiona and Katsu

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5 July 2023

Vacancy for Receptionist/Arts and Cultural Events Assistant at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

DUTIES General reception duties including answering telephone calls; greeting and looking after guests; arranging and serving refreshments. Communicating professionally with various partners by managing emails, phone calls, setting up internal/external meetings. Assisting the Programme Director with event planning and hospitality arrangements; regular evening work required (approximately once a week). Providing administrative support to deliver evening

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20 June 2023

Carving the Picture Book of Everything with David Bull

In 2022, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Small Grant to the British Museum to support travel to Tokyo by Dr Capucine Korenberg, a senior scientist based at the Scientific Research Department at The British Museum. She travelled to Tokyo to interview and film woodblock printmakers, David Bull and Motoharu Asaka, as they embarked on the

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