News category: Staff

Vacancy for Receptionist/Arts and Cultural Events Assistant at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

DUTIES General reception duties including answering telephone calls; greeting and looking after guests; arranging and serving refreshments. Communicating professionally with various partners by managing emails, phone calls, setting up internal/external meetings. Assisting the Programme Director with event planning and hospitality arrangements; regular evening work required (approximately once a week). Providing administrative support to deliver evening

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Jason James, director of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, receives OBE

Many congratulations to Jason James, director of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, on having received an OBE in The King’s Birthday Honours 2023.

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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Monthly Inspiration

Welcome to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Monthly Inspiration Newsletter. We hope that these monthly articles written by staff, trustees, and friends of the Foundation will allow our community to engage with a variety of Japan-related topics and stories.

Links to our discontinued series of Weekly Isolation Inspiration series can be found here.

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Gallery Assistant Internship

Opportunity: we are looking for a Gallery Assistant Intern to join the events team at the Foundation to assist in preparing and coordinating our exhibitions and events.  

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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration

Welcome to the  Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration instalments to see us through the Covid-19 period of staying at home. We are intent on continuing to support closer links between the UK and Japan. We hope that these weekly digests of news will allow everyone at home to continue engaging with Japan.

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'Yoshino Arrowroot' by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki: A New Translation

In the fourteenth installment of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation’s Weekly Isolation Inspiration newsletter, the Foundation’s Director General Jason James proposed to publish his translation of “Yoshino Kuzu”  by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki at the rate of one chapter a week (there are six chapters in total).

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Opportunity: Social Science Events Internship

We are looking for interns to join the events team to assist in target research for our social science seminars.

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Opportunity: Events Internships

We are looking to take interns to join the events team at the Foundation to assist in planning, preparing and coordinating our events. Our programme covers a wide range of events related to Japan, including lectures, seminars, book launches, culinary tastings and exhibitions. To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to rosalind.grubin@dajf.org.uk, copied to nana.ota@dajf.org.uk, by Friday 20th July 2018.

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Opportunity: Events Internships

We are looking to take interns to join the events team at the Foundation to assist in planning, preparing and coordinating our events. Our programme covers a wide range of events related to Japan, including lectures, seminars, book launches, culinary tastings and exhibitions. To apply, please send your CV to nana.ota@dajf.org.uk by Friday 23rd February 2018.

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Stuart Chambers appointed as new Trustee of the Foundation

On Wednesday 16 November, the Trustees were pleased to confirm the appointment of Mr Stuart Chambers as a Trustee of the Foundation.

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