7 July 2026
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall has a new Japan-themed painting on show at the Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition until 11 July at Gallery 8 in Mayfair, central London. His oil painting The Kokeshi Maker is one of 90 artworks chosen from 3,252 worldwide submissions. The show also includes paintings by Winifred Nicholson
Read on26 June 2026
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 31 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: March 2026. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will support the travel of 11 explorer scouts and 2 leaders from the 83rd Fife Scout Group to attend the
Read on28 April 2026
A new Japan painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall has been selected for this year’s Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition, 7 to 19 May. ‘Graveyard Getsuho’ will be included in the show at the Mall Galleries in central London. The painting will then also be shown at The Contemporary British Portrait
Read on27 March 2026
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was commissioned by The Creative Restaurant Group to make a series of paintings for Kioku by Endo – a high-end Japanese restaurant in Whitehall London, located on the top floor of the luxury hotel Raffles at The OWO (in between Downing Street and Trafalgar Square). “Michelin-starred chef Endo
Read on19 March 2026
We are delighted to be supporting aspects ot the lecture series connected to “Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige” showing at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester until 15 November 2026. You can find a list of the talks here: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beneaththegreatwave/events-programme/ Exhibition details can be found via this link: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beneaththegreatwave/
Read on28 May 2012
An interesting interview in the Weekend FT with Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
Read on25 May 2012
Last night, Frances Morris, Head of Collections (International Art) at Tate and former Head of Displays at Tate Modern, spoke at the Japan Foundation about curating the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Tate Modern, which is open until 5 June in London, before touring to the Whitney in New York in July. For Morris, there
Read on24 May 2012
Yesterday’s ‘PechaKucha for Japan’ event at Logan Hall, Institute of Education brought together an exciting, talented and eclectic mix of presenters and an audience of 500, according to the host and additional speaker for the evening, Michael Johnson (johnson banks).
Read on24 May 2012
Wide Open School is an unusual experiment in learning with courses devised and led by over 100 artists from 40 different countries. The School is open to everyone and begins on 11 June. Pianist and composer, Makoto Nomura, will be involved in three of the Wide Open School’s workshops.
Read on23 May 2012
At least three staff and two trustees of the Foundation went to see the Chiten “Coriolanus”, on at the Globe
Read on21 May 2012
Following is an account of her time in the UK by Daiwa Foundation Tohoku Scholar, Ms Teina Nakashima. Teina is an undergraduate studying geology at Tohoku University. She successfully applied for a Scholarship in order to study English in Cambridge from 12 February to 18 March 2012.
Read on21 May 2012
Paul Scalise of Tokyo University gave an interesting talk about Japan’s electric power problems at Oxford’s Nissan Institute
Read on18 May 2012
To the Japanese Embassy last night for a reception with the Emperor and Empress. There were a lot of rules and regulations for those attending, but this seemed understandable enough. Photographs were also forbidden, so I don’t have any. Standing with the Empress in front of a gold screen, the Emperor gave a short speech in slow, but extremely clear, English, thanking the people of the UK for their support after the Japanese earthquake last March.
Read on15 May 2012
The existence and condition of children’s outdoor environments in the post disaster Tohoku area of Japan was the focus of Helen Woolley’s recent visit to Japan in April 2012. Helen is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Reader in Landscape Architecture and Society in The Department of Landscape at The University of Sheffield.
Read on10 May 2012
On 23 May there will be an event at Logan Hall in Bloomsbury, London, called PechaKucha: Japan. Just over a year after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, in conjunction with D&AD, a collection of the design and communication world’s greatest stars are being gathered to share stories about Japan.
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