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15 September 2025

Special Video Screening: Scarlet River by Reijiro Wada - showing until Monday 20 October

In a reflection on the current intensification of geopolitical conflicts, the Daiwa Foundation invites visitors to view the video work SCARLET RIVER by Reijiro Wada. It was filmed in 2023 at the Motoyasu River, which flows through the centre of Hiroshima City. The landscape’s associated tragedies are captured through a double-glazed window filled with red wine, creating a scarlet scene.

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12 September 2024

Ura Matsuri 2024 - Saturday 19 October 2024 at Hoxton Hall

– Date and Time: Saturday 19th October (Doors 6:30pm / Show 7pm) – Location: Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton St, London N1 6SH – Ticket price: £12 / £15 plus booking fee Press Release can be found here – Line-up: Frank Chickens / Beibei Wang / Vera Chok / NO CARS / Tenzin Sisters / Kamura Obscure / Mai & Fear

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6 September 2024

Crafts Council event with former Daiwa Scholar Edmund de Waal on 24 October

On 24 October, campaigner, writer and former Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas will discuss her new book Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story with master potter, artist, writer and former Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Edmund de Waal, for whom notions of migration, culture and identity have long been a focus, through projects

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16 July 2024

Space and Us Symposium & Reception - UCL-Japan Youth Challenge 2024 - 2 August 2024 from 1pm

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting this year’s UCL-Japan Youth Challenge, a prestigious summer school programme for pre-university students from both the UK and Japan. Students will attend a series of university-style lectures on a wide range of subjects by academics from leading UK universities including UCL (University College London), and engage

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8 February 2024

'On an Endless Road' - a programme of music by and about trailblazing Japanese women

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. 

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