News for February 2025

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). The brief Carl

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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 Foundation funds projects ranging from a comparative historical study of monetary systems in pre-modern Afro-Eurasia to a knowledge exchange in inclusive coaching methods in disabled football

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

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The Daiwa Foundation funds projects ranging from an exploration into 'Katsuben Benshi' performance work, to shared learning and communication between Cancer Caring Centres in Japan and the UK.

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (www.dajf.org.uk) has published details of its Small Grants and Awards awarded to support a total of 32 UK-Japan projects in its latest funding round: September 2024. A Daiwa Foundation Small Grant supported travel by two Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) staff, Professor Stephen Widdicombe – PML’s Director of Science and Deputy Chief

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Nepali students in health and social care sectors in Japan and in the UK

Dr Radha Adhikari, University of the West of Scotland, shares the findings of a research trip to Japan, supported with a Daiwa Foundation Award, which looks at how Nepali Higher Education students in the UK and Technical Trainees in Japan contribute to the labour shortages in these countries. Project Partners: Professor Jeevan R Sharma (University

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