Recently funded

Asada Masashi, ‘ASADAKE’, 2005, Type-C print

In order to see the type and variety of projects that the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation fund, please take a look at the successful projects from previous rounds.

March 2013 Round September 2012 Round March 2012 Round September 2011 Round March 2011 Round March 2010 Round September 2010 Round

A selection of current & forthcoming events and activities supported by the Foundation

Ledbury Poetry Festival, 5 – 14 July 2013
Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan at the Wellcome Collection, Thursday 28 March – Sunday 30 June 2013
Basketry and Beyond Festival, Dartington, May 2013: Masashi Kutsuwa and Mr Shinichi Kito will participate in an international festival of basketry and three-month exhibition showcasing the basket craft associated with cormorant fishing on the Nagara River
All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku from Friday, 26 April to Sunday, 1 September 2013 at the Mori Art Museum http://www.dajf.org.uk/news/all-you-need-is-love-from-chagall-to-kusama-and-hatsune-miku-from-friday-26-april-to-sunday-1-september-2013-at-the-mori-art-museum
Collaboration between Liverpool John Moores University and Waseda University into nuclear contamination of water: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/NewsUpdate/viewarticle/447/Staff
Dr Alexander Weiss, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, has recently written below about his collaborative research into chimpanzees. He was awarded a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant in 2007. HIs article can be read here.
Natural History Museum (NHM) and Lake Biwa periphyton research exchange: Dr Kanako Ishikawa from Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, Otsu, Japan, visited Dr Anne D Jungblut (NHM Life Sciences Department) in April 2012 as part of a project supported by a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant that aims to establish a Lake Biwa periphyton species list and carry out public engagement events on biodiversity, management and conservation of Lake Biwa, Japan.
King’s College London, NIHR King’s Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre UK-Japan Project, March 2011 onwards
HeadSpace’s Artistic Residencies in Japan
The British Association of Japanese Studies’ ‘Discover Japanese Studies’ website for those interested in pursuing Japanese Studies at university