News for May 2019

Carl Randall included in two London Portrait Painting Exhibitions

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

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Carl Randall - commissioned to create paintings for Raffles at The OWO/Kioku by Endo

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall was commissioned by The Creative Restaurant Group to make a series of paintings for Kioku by Endo – a high-end Japanese restaurant in Whitehall London, located on the top floor of the luxury hotel Raffles at The OWO (in between Downing Street and Trafalgar Square). “Michelin-starred chef Endo

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We are delighted to be supporting aspects ot the lecture series connected to “Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige” showing at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester until 15 November 2026. You can find a list of the talks here: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beneaththegreatwave/events-programme/ Exhibition details can be found via this link: https://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/beneaththegreatwave/

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Thirty-Six Views of a Haiku: poetry translation workshop with Heidi Clark (co-founder of the Translators' House Press)

Alumna (Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies) Heidi Clark is holding a poetry translation workshop at East Bristol Books on Thursday 26 March. Doors open at 18:00 with the event starting at 18:15. The event finishes at 20:00. Why do people produce different translations of the same source text? In this workshop, participants will be introduced

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Rest in Peace, Arthur Stockwin

In early January 2026, all of us at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation were saddened to hear of the death of Professor Arthur Stockwin. He was a towering figure in Japanese Studies in the UK, and a long-standing friend of the Daiwa Foundation, sometimes speaking at or moderating our events, but most memorably as a member of the interview panel assessing potential Daiwa Scholars.

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Daiwa Ichiban Lecture: Eddie Jones on “Driving for Excellence”

In the fourth lecture of the Daiwa Ichiban Lecture Series Eddie Jones, the head coach of the England rugby team, spoke on “Driving for Excellence” at the residence of Britain’s Ambassador to Japan, Paul Madden.

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Carl Randall's Waterloo Bridge to be on display at the RA Summer Exhibition 2019

Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall will be exhibiting his recent large oil painting Waterloo Bridge, London at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019 from 10  June to 12  August  at The Royal Academy of Arts, central London. Approximately 700 works from public submission were selected from over almost 12,000 international entries.

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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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Manga マンガ at British Museum, 23 May to 26 August 2019

Divided into six different ‘zones’ the exhibition promises to be a playful and immersive showcase of original Japanese manga, its relevance and importance to Japanese culture and history and Manga’s influence across the globe. Some highlights of the exhibition include the 17m long Shintomiza Kabuki Theatre Curtain (featuring painted demons and ghosts), high profile loans from famous Japanese artists (including Hokusai and Kyosai) through

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