14 September 2026
Onsen, an oil painting by Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall, has been used on the cover of the book Skinship published by Salt Publishing. Skinship is a collection of poems by author Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, who like Carl, spent 10 years living in Japan. The title Skinship comes from a Japanese loan word fusing
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
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 on11 May 2023
Very many congratulations to Daiwa Scholarship alumna Natasha Pulley who is on the longlist for the annual Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Best Published Novel! “From the longlist, six titles will be selected by the same panel to progress to the shortlist, after which the titles progress to the expert judging panel. The Prize will
Read on23 March 2023
The book ‘What Is It That Will Last? Land and Tidal Art of Julie Brook’ will be published on 3 April 2023. Julie Brook was a Daiwa Foundation Art Prize finalist in 2015.
Read on6 September 2022
We are delighted to be supporting the Japan strand at this year’s Cheltenham Literary Festival with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant! The Festival runs from 7 to 16 October 2022. The Festival will include a conversation with Mieko Kawakami “Polka Dots Forever: Celebrating Yayoi Kusama” manga workshops with Chie Kutsuwada and a
Read on25 March 2022
The book provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan’s future relations with the world
Read on10 November 2021
Many congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alumna and award-winning author Dr Eluned Gramich on wining the Ghastling Novella Prize with her new story, Sleep Training! “This book was a clear winner from the outset. It is a story that addresses and explores motherhood and female experience; childbirth and postnatal depression with authenticity. This story breaks the
Read on27 June 2021
From 2pm on Sunday, 1st August 2021, author and Daiwa Foundation Small Grant recipient Jayne Joso will be introducing her recently published Japan Stories at Herne Hill Books in Herne Hill, London. In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of
Read on3 June 2021
In Japan Stories – Jayne Joso’s collection of short fiction, each story centres on a particular character to become part of a mosaic of life in contemporary Japan. Meet the sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia-struck father, a young woman who returns to haunt her killer, a widow losing her mind who knits
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