27 March 2026
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
Read on19 March 2026
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/
Read on3 March 2026
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
Read on2 February 2026
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.
Read on22 January 2026
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 24 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: September 2025. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant will support the travel to Japan of five cast and team members from Raw Material Arts Limited to tour the
Read on29 September 2022
This year marks 50 years since the reversion of Okinawa to Japan. We look back at the past half-century and use interviews with Okinawan people to consider from various perspectives the current situation in Okinawa, whose history and culture are different from mainland Japan. The second interview is with Chо̄kei Futenma, Director of the Himeyuri Peace Museum. Mr. Futenma started working for the museum when it opened in 1989, and was appointed Director in 2018, becoming the first Director to be born after the War. We asked him about the Battle of Okinawa and his efforts to ensure it is not forgotten, from the opening of the museum up to the present, and continuing into the future.
Read on18 September 2022
Very many congratulations to Daiwa Scholarships alumna Kathleen Reilly who has been shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards. ‘Oku’ is a new knife design produced in collaboration with highly skilled craftsmen in Tsubame City – an area renowned for over 400 years of metalworking in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. https://www.dezeen.com/awards/2022/shortlists/oku/
Read on16 September 2022
Very many congratulations to former Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies Scholar Warren A. Stanislaus who was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for his article “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain” (2022). The Ian Nish Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an early career researcher in any
Read on13 September 2022
The Foundation will be closed on Monday 19 September, the day of Her Majesty’s funeral.
Read on7 September 2022
Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko
Read on6 September 2022
16 Daiwa Scholars from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts have arrived in Japan! The start of the programme has been delayed by two years in the case of the 2020 Scholars and by one year in the case of the 2021 Scholars. We wish them a great twelve months of language study (at Waseda),
Read on6 September 2022
We are delighted to be supporting the Japan strand at this year’s Cheltenham Literary Festival with a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant! The Festival runs from 7 to 16 October 2022. The Festival will include a conversation with Mieko Kawakami “Polka Dots Forever: Celebrating Yayoi Kusama” manga workshops with Chie Kutsuwada and a
Read on4 September 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and figurative painter Carl Randall was invited by the Japan Society London to give a talk on 4 July 2022. (Link to the video of the talk is below.) The talk took place at the Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, central London. In this illustrated lecture Carl gave an insight into his series
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