1 January 2022
“Drive My Car” takes a meditative trip down memory lane. Murakami Haruki’s short story of a driver growing closer to her passenger is adapted by Hamaguchi Ryusuke into an understated and precise reflection on language, emotion and loss. Here you can read a super review of the film by Daiwa Scholarship alumna, Dr Becca Voelcker.
Read on3 December 2021
Artist and Daiwa scholarship alumnus Carl Randall has been invited for a fifth consecutive year to take part in Small is Beautiful at Flowers Gallery, Cork St., Mayfair London. The exhibition features small scale works by internationally recognised artists, and is running until 8 January 2022. Carl lived in Tokyo for 10 years,
Read on25 November 2021
Having been available for sale through the National Portrait Gallery London shop over the past few years, prints of Carl Randall’s paintings are now available to purchase directly from the artist. Limited edition signed giclee prints of his Japan and London paintings, as well a selection of signed and mounted drawings, can be purchased via
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 on4 November 2021
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was recently commissioned by Bob Bob Ricard to create a series of four new portrait paintings of restaurateurs and people in the hospitality industry for their new £30 million restaurant in the Leadenhall building in the City of London. The portraits depict celebrated French chef and author
Read on21 October 2021
2019 Daiwa Scholar Kathleen Reilly has been selected to take part in Designart Tokyo 2021, one of Japan’s largest design and art festivals from 22 to 31 October 2021. This year’s exhibition theme is “chance”. Here you can see a video of Kathleen being interviewed about her work.
Read on6 October 2021
The Purpose of Capitalism: Lessons from Japan, is directed by Daiwa Scholarship alumna (1999) Victoria James, and will soon be aired on CNBC. It takes an inside look at some of the largest and oldest Japanese companies to find the answer. While the Western business world wakes up to ‘purpose’ as a means to address
Read on14 September 2021
1) The flagship Daiwa Scholarships programme was established in 1991. It is a unique 19-month programme of language study, work placement, and homestay in Japan, following a month of Japanese language study in the UK. It only open to UK nationals.
2) The Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies is a postgraduate scholarship programme to support the study of Japanese Studies in either Japan or the UK. Only UK citizens who hold or are completing a degree in Japanese Studies, defined as a course focussing primarily on the study of Japan, and containing a substantial Japanese language component are eligible to apply.
27 July 2021
In this radio essay, former Daiwa Scholar Dr Chris Harding recalls the first time Tokyo was due to host the Olympic Games in 1940 and talks about Daimatsu ‘The Demon’ Hirobumi – the zealous coach who achieved a gold medal for Japan’s women’s volleyball team in the 1964 Olympics. It makes for a fabulous listen!
Read on14 June 2021
We offer our congratulations to the artist and author Edmund de Waal on having been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours on 12 June 2021. Edmund was one of the first recipients of a Daiwa Scholarship, following the establishment of the programme by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 1991. De Waal is renowned
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