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Daiwa Scholarship alumna Alex Rutter directing Romeo + Juliet in Tokyo

Daiwa Scholarships alumna Alex Rutter  is directing a version of Romeo and Juliet at the Bunkamura Theatre in Tokyo. The show runs until 12 February 2023.

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Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from musical performances and workshops with shamisen virtuoso Hidejiro Honjoh, to scientific research into the emergence of life.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: September 2022. Professor Siân Bowen, from Arts University Bournemouth, has received a grant to travel to Japan as part of an interdisciplinary team to explore the integral relationships between plants and

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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Monthly Inspiration

Welcome to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Monthly Inspiration Newsletter. We hope that these monthly articles written by staff, trustees, and friends of the Foundation will allow our community to engage with a variety of Japan-related topics and stories.

Links to our discontinued series of Weekly Isolation Inspiration series can be found here.

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Meiji Civil War Losers in Noncolonised Asia: Miyazaki Tōten’s Siamese Sojourn (1877-1896): online talk on 19 December at 1pm (JST)

Joel Littler, Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies 2021, will be giving an online presentation at Kyushu University on Monday 19 December at 1pm (JST).   Joel’s profile can be found on our website here: https://dajf.org.uk/scholarships/japanese-studies/scholars/daiwa-scholars-in-japanese-studies-2021  The 4th ISGS Global Seminar 地球社会統合科学府 第4回グローバルセミナー : ‘Meiji Civil War Losers in Noncolonised Asia: Miyazaki Tōten’s Siamese Sojourn (1877-1896)’

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Carl Randall painting on show at the O Art Museum in Tokyo, 15 to 21 December 2022

‘Nihonbashi’, a painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is being included in an exhibition at a museum in Tokyo this month. The acrylic on canvas painting (73 x 91cm, 2020) was originally commissioned by a private art collector in Japan, who asked Carl to make a painting featuring the ‘Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway’.

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Daiwa Scholarship alumnus Carl Randall exhibiting at Flowers Gallery from 24 November 2022 until 7 January 2023

A new miniature painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is exhibiting in Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery on Cork Street in central London from 24 November 2022 until 7 January 2023. The painting ‘Self Portrait as a Balloon (Fear of Earthquakes)’ is based on Carl’s experiences of being in Japan during

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Peace Symposium at the Guildhall, City of London - 6 December 2022

On Tuesday 6 December, members of the Portland Japanese Garden’s faculty will be hosting a Peace Symposium at the Guildhall in the City of London, in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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Daiwa Scholarships alumna Kathleen Reilly has won a 2022 Dezeen Design Award

Kathleen Reilly has won a 2022 Dezeen Design Award in the Homeware category. Oku is a knife design which she developed in Tsubame City, Japan while on the Daiwa Scholarship! Very many congratulations to Kathleen on winning another award so soon! 👏👏👏 https://www.dezeen.com/awards/2022/winners/oku/  

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Kathleen Reilly wins a British Business Award 2022 - organised by the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan

Very many congratulations go to Daiwa Scholarships alumna Kathleen Reilly on winning one of the British Business Awards 2022: “Study UK Alumni of the Year” sponsored by the British Council Japan.

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Gallery Opening Hours Dec-Jan 2022/2023

We are sorry to announce that the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s gallery will be closed all day on Thursday and Friday, 1 and 2 December 2022 due to building maintenance.
Our current exhibition La Mer by Yuken Teruya is on until 25 January 2023.

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