28 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 on7 November 2025
Daiwa Scholar and artist Carl Randall has been invited to take to take part in exhibitions in two central London commercial galleries this month: The Distinctive Eye: Singular Voices in British Painting The Distinctive Eye: Singular Voices in British Painting at Panter & Hall Gallery, Pall Mall London, 11 to 21 November 2025 The ten
Read on7 October 2025
Daiwa Scholarships 2026: Language Study, Homestay & Work Placement in Japan – apply by 4 December 2025 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity supporting UK-Japan links through awarding Daiwa Scholarships and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies; offering grants to support UK-Japan collaboration and organising events including seminars, and exhibitions at its London headquarters.
Read on13 June 2025
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and artist Carl Randall Artist is taking part in two exhibitions this summer: His painting ‘Take Me Anywhere But Here’ has been selected for The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2025, 17 June to 17 August. This will be his fifth year, exhibiting at the Summer Exhibition: ‘Boy & Girl at
Read on10 September 2024
Artist and metalworker and Daiwa Scholarships alumna Kathleen Reilly will be taking part in this year’s London Design Festival which runs from 14 to 22 September. She will also be giving talks at Japan House London on 14 September and at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on 24 September about her knife design: Oku. An Oku
Read on6 September 2024
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
Read on28 August 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Joel Littler, Daiwa Scholar in Japanese Studies (alumnus), has been awarded a prestigious Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies. These Fellowships provide recent graduates with the opportunity to continue their doctoral research at Harvard and produce publishable work from their dissertations. We wish him all the very
Read on15 July 2024
Huge congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alum Gareth Mattey who has been awarded a theatre translator mentorship by Foreign Affairs. Gareth will be translating a Japanese play to be performed in London next year! Throughout the programme, Gareth and cohort will receive mentoring and take part in workshops to nurture their knowledge and skills for theatre
Read on11 July 2024
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s oil painting ‘Alain at Kew’ is now on display at the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. 50 paintings were chosen from 1,647 entries from 62 countries. The exhibition is free to visit and on until 27 October 2024, after which
Read on13 June 2024
Artist and author and Daiwa Scholarships alumnus Edmund de Waal will chair the 2024 Booker Prize judging panel. He is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney. They will be looking for the best works of
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