THE DAIWA ANGLO-JAPANESE FOUNDATION — grant history
Latest income
£920k
Grants listed (FY2025)
60
Listed grants total
£253k
Accounts grants total
£260k
listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts
What this funder supports
Causes funded
Where grantees operate
- Throughout England
- Malaysia
- Canada
- India
- Bangladesh
- Lancashire
- Cumbria
- China
- Gloucestershire
- Japan
What changed: FY2023 → FY2025
| Change | Grantee | FY2023 | FY2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| new | Maggie Keswick Jencks Institute of Science and Technology (Dr Tetsuo Nohara) | — | £16k |
| new | Saitama Arts Foundation, Saitama Arts Theatre | — | £15k |
| new | Playbox Theatre | — | £12k |
| new | Tokai University, Research Institute | — | £12k |
| new | University of Manchester, Department of Chemical Engineering | — | £11k |
| new | THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON | — | £9k |
| new | National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Kumamoto College | — | £9k |
| new | Bournemouth University, Department of Humanities and Law | — | £9k |
| not listed | London Centre | £15k | — |
| not listed | Vanishing Point Theatre Company | £15k | — |
| not listed | Won of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities and Arts | £12k | — |
| not listed | Soas, University of and Sciences; Tsuru University, Faculty of Letters; Haruki Murakami Library | £12k | — |
| not listed | University of Aberdeen, Department of Planetary Sciences | £11k | — |
| not listed | University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science | £10k | — |
| not listed | Thirty Three Thirty Three (33-33) | £10k | — |
| not listed | De Montfort University, School of Pharmacy | £9k | — |
Grants made, per its accounts filings
| Recipient | Year | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maggie Keswick Jencks Institute of Science and Technology (Dr Tetsuo Nohara) | FY2025 | £16k | Support for mutual visits, support and training between Maggie’s UK and Maggie’s Tokyo to aid communication and shared learning; including a conference in Japan for Maggie’s Tokyo, Maggie’s UK and other Japanese healthcare organisations, 2025 to 2026. Project Partners: University of Sussex, Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre; University of Brighton, Centre for Precision Health & Translational Medicine |
| Saitama Arts Foundation, Saitama Arts Theatre | FY2025 | £15k | Support for travel to Japan by 20 members of the Akram Khan Company to take part in performances in Saitama and lead workshops as part of the Dance Redirection programme, which provides training for young dancers in Japan, June 2025. Project Partner: Akram Khan Company |
| Playbox Theatre | FY2025 | £12k | Support for 19 young people from England to experience an intensive and educative ten days living, and working, with an inspiring arts organisation in Tokyo, July 2025. Project Partner: Model Language Studio (Tokyo) |
| Tokai University, Research Institute | FY2025 | £12k | Support for reciprocal UK-Japan research visits by academics at the University of Sussex, University of Brighton, and Tokai University combining their respective expertise as they research the possibility of CO2 absorption, September 2024 onwards. |
| University of Manchester, Department of Chemical Engineering | FY2025 | £11k | Support for reciprocal travel by teams of UK and Japan-based researchers from the University of Manchester, the University of Tokyo, and RIKEN collaborating on research into understanding the sulfonamide biosynthesis in Streptomyces bacteria, January to autumn 2025. Project Partners: University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences; RIKEN, Department of Sustainable Resource Science |
| Zoological Society of London | FY2025 | £9k | Support for reciprocal UK-Japan trips by academics collaborating on the recovery of native wildlife and ecosystems, as well the transferability of rewilding approaches by identifying actors, conditions, and barriers to successful rewilding and the reintroduction of extinct wildlife, 2025. Project Partner: Ritsumeikan University, College of Policy Science |
| National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Kumamoto College | FY2025 | £9k | Support for five reciprocal visits by researchers at Kumamoto College and Nottingham Trent University focusing on the development of an intelligent prosthetic arm, leveraging advancements in neuromorphic computing, August and December 2024. Project Partner: Nottingham Trent University, Department of Computer Science |
| Bournemouth University, Department of Humanities and Law | FY2025 | £9k | Support for reciprocal visits by academics in the UK and Japan undertaking collaborative research into deepfake technology and the legal implications for the UK and Japan, with a particular focus on copyright, data protection, privacy and fraud law, December 2024 and April 2025. Project Partners: University of Aberdeen, School of Law; Waseda University Law School |
| University of Birmingham, City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI) | FY2025 | £9k | Support for four reciprocal visits by experts engaged in identifying policy lessons regarding devolution and governance structures and their links with economic growth by conducting policy-exchange between colleagues in Osaka and Birmingham, July and September 2024. Project Partners: Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA); Otemon Gakuin University, Faculty of Regional Development |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum | FY2025 | £9k | Support for travel to Japan by artist duo Dunhill & O'Brien to create a new large-scale interactive installation and public programme for Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum's exhibition, 'Pleasure in Making: The Creative Spirit of DIY for Living’, July to October 2025. |
| Tokyo University of the Arts | FY2025 | £6k | Support for travel to Japan by four UK artists taking part in a public roundtable event with Japan-based artists and curators at Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, in conjunction with a group exhibition 'Making Poetry with Solid Objects: Drawing and Sculpture’, 28 June 2024. |
| British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) | FY2025 | £5k | Support for reciprocal flights by members of the British Educational Leadership, Management & Administration Society (BELMAS) and the Japanese Association for the Study of Educational Administration (JASEA) to meet and take part in conferences in the UK and Japan with a view to establishing long-term networks and collaboration on educational leadership and establish a Memorandum of Understanding, July 2025. |
| University of the Arts London, London College of Communication | FY2025 | £4k | Support for four BA photography students from University of the Arts London to participate in Tokyo’s T3 Photo Festival and work collaboratively with Japanese peers to initiate a longer-term collaborative project and cultural exchange opportunities, October 2024. |
| Architectural Association Visiting School | FY2025 | £4k | Support for travel to Japan by two participants to take part in an intensive ten-day course for 16 architecture students and recent graduates from the UK and Japan, providing an introduction to the working practices of Manazuru's granite industry and low-carbon building, April 2025. |
| Hiroshima University Centre for Academic Practice and Resources | FY2025 | £4k | Support for reciprocal travel by academics from Hiroshima, Newcastle, Glasgow and Oxford Universities taking part in seminars and meetings in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Newcastle on nurturing doctoral students' development - with a focus on pedagogy and well-being, August and November 2024. |
| Loughborough Business School | FY2025 | £4k | Support for reciprocal UK-Japan visits by academics at Loughborough and Akita International University to collaborate on a comparative study of the macroeconomic and microeconomic drivers of gross domestic fixed capital formation in Japan and the UK, 2025. |
| University of Essex, Essex Business School | FY2025 | £4k | Reciprocal visits by academics at Essex and Shizuoka Universities exploring the work-life balance of UK and Japan-based doctors to elucidate the underlying reasons for the high workload of doctors especially in Japanese settings, resulting in workshops and articles, October 2024 onwards. |
| Jurassic Maths Hub, Primary Maths Team (in partnership with Devon Education Services, Maths Team) | FY2025 | £4k | Support for travel to Japan by Maths education professional development leads to boost their knowledge of Japanese approaches to curriculum design and development with the aim of sharing learning across the national maths hub network and schools in the hub region, February 2025. |
| Plymouth Marine Laboratory | FY2025 | £4k | Support for travel to Tokyo by two Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) staff (Professor Stephen Widdicombe - PML's Director of Science and Deputy Chief Executive, and Amy Kenworthy - Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability [OARS] Project Manager) to present at the World Ocean Summit in March 2025, and attend strategic meetings on Ocean Acidification (OA) thus furthering links with partners and stakeholders whilst raising awareness of recent research on the extent and impacts of OA globally. |
| Barbican Centre (Trust) | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK by artist Miyu Hosoi and technician to finalise and install a new audio installation - her first public work in the UK - for Barbican exhibition produced in partnership with East Japan Railway Foundation for Cultural Innovations, May to August 2025. |
| Design Museum | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Tokyo in March 2025 by two curators to develop and deliver ‘NIGO - From Japan With Love’, an exhibition (2026) which will explore the designer's practice across fashion, music, design and architecture, and his influence on pop culture over the last 30 years. |
| Dance Vibez CIC (Cumbernauld) | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by three dancers to train with and learn from Studio Hana, Hip Hop International gold medallists, ahead of representing Scotland for the first time at Hip Hop International, and with the aim of sharing their knowledge through workshops and masterclasses back in Scotland, March 2025. |
| University of Southampton, School of Education | FY2025 | £3k | Support for reciprocal visits in February and June 2025 by academics analysing recent PISA 2022 data, focusing on the use of technology in maths lessons in Japan and England. Based on this and prior literature they aim to co-create, with maths teachers, a prototypical digital maths book. |
| Nottingham Trent University, School of Architecture, Design and Built Environment | FY2025 | £3k | Support for a first collaboration to establish bridges between Saga and Nottingham Trent Universities in the fields of architecture and cultural heritage by examining and sharing knowledge about mosques and migrant architecture in both countries, autumn 2024. |
| Yamashita, Megumi | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel in Japan by Megumi Yamashita in early 2025, comprising visits to 20 to 30 craft makers associated with Sumo wrestling and documenting their craftsmanship via photography. The research will result in publications coinciding with the upcoming Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in October 2025. |
| Elsa Tierney and Kumiko Kihara | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by two UK-based artists researching the origin of Mitsuro Hikime, a Japanese wax sculpting technique, tracing the technique back to Sado Island and engaging in historical research and artist collaborations; a comprehensive book and lectures will ensue with a view to helping preserve this technique, September 2024. |
| Birmingham City University, School of Art | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan in October 2024 to interview artists for the development of a manuscript 'The Art of Contemporary Japan' to be published by Thames & Hudson in 2026, in parallel with the expansion of Birmingham's Centre for Chinese Visual Arts to East & Southeast Asia. |
| Kyoto Institute of Technology | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK by Professor Chie Fukada to collaborate with UK universities (Birmingham, Northumbria, Coventry) on research comparing experimental data on metaphor and crossmodal association in music education in Japan and the UK, spring and autumn 2025. |
| Cardiff University | FY2025 | £3k | Support for a three-week research visit to Japan in July 2025 by Dr Christopher Hood to observe the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the end of World War II and of the world’s deadliest single plane crash, JL123, resulting in a monograph. |
| Young, Dot | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan to research the cultural heritage, artisan skill and environmental sustainability of Washi paper production with a view to further developing Washi as a sustainable sculptural material, and leading to creative collaborations, talks and lectures, January 2025. |
| University of Surrey, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering | FY2025 | £3k | Support for reciprocal visits by academics at Surrey and Kyushu Universities focusing on research into CO2 capture and reduction with a view to developing numerical models for the electrochemical CO2 reduction electrolyser designed by Professor Yamauchi's group, July and September 2024. |
| University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art | FY2025 | £3k | Support for a visit to Tokyo University of the Arts by Professor Graham Ellard to lead 'How to Work Better - teaching art, examined’: a public symposium and forums exploring approaches to teaching in an international context, 2025. |
| University College London, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by two of UCL's pre-clinical imaging team for a first collaboration with counterparts at Osaka University with a view to improving the sensitivity of pre-clinical MRI for the longitudinal monitoring of lung cancer, August 2024. |
| University College London, Department of Anthropology | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by two academics coordinating and presenting at a symposium in Kyoto on thanatology, bringing together researchers in the comparative thanatology field to create a roadmap for the future of this new discipline as a hypothesis-testing field, June 2024. |
| Royal Holloway, University of London, Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK by mask maker Hideta Kitazawa to deliver demonstrations throughout the UK and to assist in the development of a new Noh piece centring on a mask maker, to coincide with a Noh-related exhibition at the Embassy of Japan, September to December 2024. |
| SOAS, University of London, Department of East Asia/British Museum | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to London in September 2024 by two Japan-based academics to take part in a workshop related to ‘Creative Collaborations: Salons & Networks in Kyoto & Osaka 1780-1880! a UK-Japan project, exploring the role of the arts in society, leading to a high quality book in 2025. |
| University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by UK researchers to deliver a workshop at Seirei General Hospital, Hamamatsu that brings together clinicians from across Japan to enhance their understanding of Charles Bonnet syndrome and introduce UK-developed clinical guidelines, 2025. |
| University of Oxford, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK by panellists from Japan participating in talks and panel discussions at SOAS and Oxford with representatives of the Japanese diaspora, scholars, and younger cohorts to explore the diasporic experience in the UK and to commemorate the archiving of these accounts, June 2024. |
| University of Surrey, Department of Microbial Sciences | FY2025 | £3k | Support for visit to Japanese universities to give seminars and initiate herpes virology research collaborations to facilitate design of future collaborative research projects, publications and grant applications, Spring 2025. |
| London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of International History | FY2025 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK by two Japanese academics to take part in the workshop, "Non-European Modernity: Japanese and East Asian Ideas of the West in the Twentieth Century’ which aims to reconsider the meaning of ‘European modernity' from the perspective of Japan, 2025. |
| Fé, Eduardo (University of Manchester, Department of Social Statistics | FY2025 | £3k | Support for a one-month research visit to Tokyo University by Dr Fé to undertake collaborative research with Professor R Tanaka at the University of Tokyo on the socioeconomic, cognitive and health consequences of retirement for workers in the UK and Japan and to meet academics from other institutions, April 2025. |
| Moore, Francis | FY2025 | £3k | Support for a free one-day event in London investigating the culture of the shakuhachi, consisting of a screening of Katsuya Nonaka’s film ‘Future Is Primitive’, talks, and performances; participants will include players Katsuya Nonaka, Kiku Day, Clive Bell, and organiser Francis Moore, autumn 2024. |
| Wilde, Sam | FY2025 | £3k | Support for transport and accommodation costs associated with artist-in-residence programmes at Lake Saiko and Kobe City with a focus on creative exploration through a continuation of a Yokai sculpture series and Japanese ceramic anthology that the artist previously exhibited at the Young V&A and Turner Contemporary respectively. The residencies will culminate in an exhibition in Kobe at the end of the four-month stay. |
| University of East London, School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan to disseminate research output at the 12th International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision at Kitakyushu, and the establishment of interdisciplinary research collaboration and outputs with universities in Japan, May to June 2025. |
| University of Birmingham, School of Mathematics | FY2025 | £2k | Support for reciprocal visits by academics at Birmingham and Kobe Universities to collaborate on the establishment of a data-driven modelling framework for surfactants, leading to publications and co-design of substantial grant applications, June 2024 to May 2025. |
| British Music Association Japan | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan by Sarah-Jane Lewis (soprano) to rehearse and perform with musicians Ayaka Tanimoto (mezzo-soprano) and Kentaro Nagai (pianist) in a concert bringing together repertoire by UK and Japanese composers at ALTO concert hall, Kyoto, 2025. |
| University College London- Japan Youth Challenge (JYC) | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to London by Biwa player and poet Satoshi Takemoto to address and engage with participants at this year's Japan Youth Challenge, a ten-day summer school for high school students from Japan and the UK, aimed at broadening their career perspectives and promoting cultural exchange, 2024. |
| Warnell, Phillip | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Tokyo by Dr Phillip Warnell to witness, interview and write on 'Katsuben Benshi' performance work currently being undertaken by Koyata Aso in her performative accompaniment of silent films in an auditorium environment, for a book project with Anthem Impact series, April 2025. |
| Cambridge University Anglo-Japanese Society | FY2025 | £2k | Support for a collaborative event connecting UK university-based Japanese societies in order to build a stronger network across the nation. The event will feature talks from students and alumni and it is hoped it will become an annual occasion, 19 October 2024. |
| Benika Mochizuki Dance Company | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to the UK by Benika Mochizuki to work with dance practitioner, Maryam Pourian, on a research and development community dance project East meets West Community Training Programme’ in Plymouth, 1 to 14 August 2024. |
| University of Southampton, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Dr Gregory Perry | FY2025 | £2k | Support for academics at Southampton and Okayama Universities to investigate routes for CO2 capture towards sustainable methods for making medicines, agrochemicals and other important molecules, March and September 2025. |
| Finan, Dr Dorothy | FY2025 | £2k | Support for a visit to the UK by Professor Kaori Suetomi to collaborate with Dr Dorothy Finan in meeting key stakeholders as part of a comparative scoping exercise into improvements to safeguarding measures aimed at children and young people within the entertainment industries in the US and Japan, July 2025. |
| Fountain, Dr Daniel (University of Exeter) | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Kyoto in September 2024 to meet the founder and organizers of Memorial Quilt Japan, established in 1990 by textile artist Hiroshi Saito, to document quilts and conduct interviews. |
| Kittos, Dr Haris (Royal College of Music, London) | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Tokyo for rehearsals and the premiere of a new composition for traditional Japanese instruments in collaboration with the Japanese ensemble Mahoroba (conceived by shamisen player Hidejiro Honjoh) and the Royal College of Music, March 2025. |
| Loughborough University, School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel by Dr Jazaierly and colleague, organising a symposium on the relation between Architecture and Philosophy at University of Tokyo. The event will include Kengo Kuma, recently awarded the Imperial Prize & the Japan Art Academy Prize for the V&A Dundee, 2 July 2024. |
| Maskell, Catherine | FY2025 | £2k | Support for a six-week residency during autumn 2024 for two Glasgow-based ceramicists, which will culminate in an anagama firing and exhibition at Shiro Oni Anagama in Gunma Prefecture. Longer term outcomes of the project would be to build a small, wood kiln within the city of Glasgow, and a ceramics community hub. |
| McCabe, Alice (Metafleur) | FY2025 | £2k | Support for floral art designer Alice McCabe and bamboo fence maker Akihiro Mashimo to collaborate in developing new ways of working sustainably with flowers on a large scale, bringing Japanese bamboo fencing techniques and UK floral art skills together in joint installations. |
| Nottingham Trent University, School of Science and Technology | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan to share novel materials synthesized by UK chemists with physicists in Japan whose expertise in specialised measurement techniques will make it possible to build a collaborative network to fully investigate these materials' properties, September 2024. |
| London School of Economics, Dept of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method | FY2025 | £2k | Support for research in Tokyo and Osaka by Dr Kate Vredenburgh to examine AI and the future of work across Japan and the UK, so as to facilitate knowledge exchange and research links across UK and Japanese universities and to gather new data in Japan for a project on the future of work and AI, April 2025. |
| The Wave of the City and the Citizens Exhibition Executive Committee | FY2025 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan by Playable City representatives to participate in a project fostering partnerships between Japan and UK designers in urban redevelopment and citizen participation alongside an exhibition at the gallery BUG during Tokyo Architecture Festival, May 2025. |
| London Centre | FY2023 | £15k | Project Partners: University of Tokyo; ICHIU Architectural Concepts & Design; University of Central Lancashire; University of Cambridge. Support for five historians, software designers, and heritage researchers collaborating with colleagues in Japan in the application of Virtual Reality (VR) technology to preserve the history and heritage of Hashima Island, known colloquially as Battleship Island, April 2023. |
| Vanishing Point Theatre Company | FY2023 | £15k | Project Partner: Kanagawa Arts Theatre. Support for reciprocal UK-Japan flights by performers and artists developing work for a new international collaboration project between Vanishing Point and Kanagawa Arts Theatre, June 2023 and March 2024. |
| Won of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities and Arts | FY2023 | £12k | Project Partner: University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts. Support for travel by eight scholars and artists taking part in a series of events to explore the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami in the context of virtual technologies, digital BIES, CHE. |
| Soas, University of and Sciences; Tsuru University, Faculty of Letters; Haruki Murakami Library | FY2023 | £12k | Support for travel to Japan by a team wellbeing, social cohesion, and shifting perceptions of reality, October 2022 in Japan and March 2023 in Wolverhampton. |
| University of Aberdeen, Department of Planetary Sciences | FY2023 | £11k | Project Partners: Okayama University, Institute for Planetary Materials mission (to be launched in the 2030s). Support for UK-Japan travel by academics from Aberdeen and Okayama Universities exploring a novel scenario for the prebiotic atmosphere and its impact on the emergence of life and to establish a collaboration with the LifeSprings, 2023. |
| University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science | FY2023 | £10k | Project Partner: Oxford Brookes University, School of Social Sciences. Support for travel to Japan by two specialists from Oxford Brookes collaborating with academics at The University of Tokyo in combining advanced technology with community-based approaches for the monitoring and conservation of endangered wildlife species, 2023. |
| Thirty Three Thirty Three (33-33) | FY2023 | £10k | Project Partners: SANA Inc; Dommune programme. Support for travel by a UK-based team including seven artists to collaborate with artists and musicians in Japan, culminating in a live performance at locations in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Sapporo among others, spring 2023. |
| De Montfort University, School of Pharmacy | FY2023 | £9k | Project Partners: Fukuoka University, Department of Chemistry; Gunma University, Department of Environmental Engineering Science. Support for reciprocal visits by academics at De Montfort and at Fukuoka and Gunma Universities to accelerate collaborations, through workshops and secondments, to explore a novel X-ray technique to monitor co-crystal dissolution in situ for design medicines, February and August 2023. |
| Barbican Theatre, Plymouth Future Undokai | FY2023 | £8k | Project Partners: Future Undokai; Japanese Undokai Foundation. Support for travel by five members of Japanese Undokai Foundation to spend two weeks in Plymouth creating a three-day Future Undokai event centred on large-scale interactive physical games which combine elements of interactive technology, April 2023. |
| University of Central Lancashire, Jeremiah Horrocks Institute | FY2023 | £8k | Project Partner: Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies. Support for four reciprocal UK-Japan research visits by academics at the University of Central Lancashire and at Kyoto University combining their respective expertise as they research the formation and evolution of exomoons around giant exoplanets, and their potential for harbouring life, September 2022 onwards. |
| Kyushu University, Graduate School of Medical Sciences | FY2023 | £8k | Support costs for reciprocal research trips by academics at Kyushu University (Professor Takahiro A. Kato) and Newham Centre for Mental Health London (Professor Jennifer Lau) to evaluate a new self-rated questionnaire measuring signs of pathological social withdrawal in young people in Japan, facilitating early intervention for those at risk of ‘hikikomori', winter 2023 onwards. |
| Royal Shakespeare Company | FY2023 | £7k | Project Partner: Studio Ghibli. Support for Executive Producer Joe Hisaishi’s accommodation costs, and venue costs to facilitate rehearsals for the stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbour Totoro developed in collaboration with Studio Ghibli, Nippon TV and London-based theatre company Improbable, August to October 2022. |
| Brunel University London, Experimental Techniques Centre | FY2023 | £7k | Support for reciprocal visits by researchers from Brunel and Doshisha Universities establishing methods for the upcycling of aluminium machining residues into high value alumina reinforced composite as well as looking into the improvements of copper alloys, using each other’s facilities and building on complementary expertise, resulting in papers, stronger links, and an MoU, spring 2023. |
| Mais Um | FY2023 | £6k | Support for travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko from the Ainu-vocal harmony group Marewrew, Manaw Kano and crew to hold six concerts at venues in Glasgow, London, Brighton and Oxford and to participate in a BBC radio session and talks, 11 to 19 November 2022. |
| Wilsher-Mills, Jason | FY2023 | £6k | Support for travel to Japan by artist Jason Wilsher-Mills, who will work with disability groups in Japan and the UK, creating two new sculptures and bringing the groups together using technology and art, in partnerships with SHAPE Arts and Keio Graduate School of Media Design, April 2023. |
| Second Hand Dance | FY2023 | £6k | Support for travel to Japan by six members of Second Hand Dance to perform We Touch, We Play, We Dance at an international festival in Okinawa for young audiences, then touring to Fukuoka, Kyoto and Kawasaki, 21 July to 8 August 2022. |
| Fail Better Records | FY2023 | £6k | Support for travel to Japan by members of three UK bands and a manager to take part in an eight-day music tour of a six-piece balkan/klezmer band (three members constitute a gypsy jazz & swing band, and three an English folk band) comprising four performances in Tokyo which will also result in video and photography documentation, March 2023. |
| Royal College of General Practitioners, Junior International Committee (Beyond Europe Team) | FY2023 | £5k | Support for travel to the UK by three early career GPs from Japan who will work together with three British equivalents on a Quality improvement project relevant and important to both UK and Japanese Primary Care, culminating in attendance at the RCGP annual conference and a period of observation at a UK GP Surgery. |
| William Adams Scholar Forum | FY2023 | £5k | Support for travel to the UK by a four-member delegation of academics from Japan to further their investigations into the origins of the William Adams family, resulting in a book, publications and enhanced links, autumn and winter 2022. |
| Bowen, Professor Sian (Professor of Drawing, Arts University Bournemouth) | FY2023 | £5k | Support for travel by an interdisciplinary team referencing Kew Garden’s 19th-Century collection of Japanese paper objects who will visit craftworkers, plant producers and botanical institutions in Japan to investigate integral relationships between plants and artisan skills, resulting in exhibitions in Japan and the UK and a publication of essays, October 2023. |
| Joshibi University of Art and Design | FY2023 | £5k | Support for reciprocal UK-Japan travel by scientists at Joshibi University of Art and Design and Liverpool Hope University participating in a cross-cultural comparison of the Stroop effect (delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli) in connection to colour, and whether it is affected by different writing systems, leading to seminars and publications, June 2022 to April 2023. |
| Jakubowicz, Dr Karina | FY2023 | £5k | Support for reciprocal UK-Japan travel by a Woolf scholar and a Woolf translator (into Japanese) to explore the contemporary Japanese feminist movement through Virginia Woolf's work, resulting in an open source podcast (first of several episodes on the topic) and article, summer/autumn 2023. |
| Cooper, Kate A | FY2023 | £4k | A 2-week trip to take part in the Aichi Triennale by K Cooper whose video installation focuses on her continued research on the bodily experiences of neurodivergent individuals and how these experiences create forms of knowledge, July to October 2022. |
| British Museum | FY2023 | £4k | Support for a trip to Japan by a British Museum scientist, which will involve research and the filming and interviewing of a woodblock printmaker creating prints of 12 of the 103 newly re-discovered Hokusai drawings, leading to a film for the Museum’s YouTube channel and a full set of the 12 prints, autumn 2022. |
| Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy | FY2023 | £4k | Support for an 11-day Japan concert tour by Scottish musicians Rachel Hair (harp) and Ron Jappy (guitar) who will collaborate with Japanese bodhran player Toshiya Motooka and teach Scottish music workshops to local Japanese musicians, May to June 2023. |
| Grizedale Arts | FY2023 | £4k | Support for travel from Japan by an architect and a craftsman to teach a group of students from the architecture, design and ecology communities how to use a seaweed-based plaster, wattle and daub insulation and joinery skills to build a cold food store, 17 to 30 April 2023. |
| University of Roehampton, School of Psychology | FY2023 | £4k | Support for UK-Japan visits by Dr Piril Hepsomaili from Roehampton and Professor Jun Nishihira from Hokkaido Information University who are studying the similarities and differences in individual variation in eating behaviours and practices, nutritional status, mental and sleep health in individuals who follow different types of diets in the UK and Japan, 2023. |
| Girlguiding North West England | FY2023 | £4k | Support for a 12-day cultural immersion trip to Japan for 16 older Girl Guides (Rangers) so they can explore and learn about both Japanese history and modern-day culture and build lasting connections with Girl Scouts of Japan and to share their experience with the NW England Guiding community and beyond, summer 2023. |
| Durham University, School of Modern Languages and Cultures | FY2023 | £4k | Support for travel by Durham and Niigata academics participating in workshops to promote the research, collection and exhibition of materials utilised by Japanese creators to produce anime, leading to an exhibition in Durham and an institutional partnership, July 2022 onwards. |
| theCoLAB | FY2023 | £4k | Support for a ten-day visit to Tokyo and the Echigo-Tsumari and Setouchi Triennials by three curators developing the Morecambe Bay Triennial in order to meet triennial organisers to discuss logistics and the challenges of the landscape for installation, and to meet artists, October 2022. |
| University of Lincoln, School of Chemistry | FY2023 | £4k | Support for reciprocal travel by researchers at Lincoln and Tsukuba Universities collaborating on research into the dynamics of anions e.g., nitrate, sulphate and phosphate (found in agricultural and industrial products) in order to control the quality of our waters and minimise environmental damage, autumn 2022. |
| Mito Arts Foundation | FY2023 | £4k | Support for travel to Japan by two UK-based artists, Hong Young In and Maria Farrar, to participate in an exhibition which will examine the social value of care and motherhood through the works of 17 artists, Caring: motherhood, Art Tower Mito, 18 February to 7 May 2023. |
| Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Digital Arts (SODA) and iSchool | FY2023 | £4k | Support for reciprocal visits by Tohoku and Manchester Metropolitan University academics collaborating on the design of accessible and universal controllers for Virtual Reality headsets: using smartphone interfaces and taking age, disabilities and culture into consideration, leading to conference papers, July 2022 onwards. |
| City, University of London, The City Law School | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by academics from City to take part in a workshop and to undertake interviews with lawyers and CEOs at video-game companies and with fans in order to evaluate and compare the impact of IP rights in Europe and Japan on video game fan culture in relation to derivative works, memorabilia and e-sports, spring 2023. |
| Szeman, Petra | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan and associated venue costs related to an exhibition and symposium in partnership with Tokyo University of the Arts, the first in a series of future collaborative efforts between UK and Japan, on contemporary art scenes focussing on technology and radical realities, October 2022. |
| Ikon Gallery | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK and contribution to the catalogue accompanying the first major solo exhibition of work by Japanese Ainu artist and musician Mayunkiki, comprising video, installation and sculptural work which will convey aspects of everyday life of her community, 9 September to 13 November 2022. |
| Howard, Professor John (Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities, King's College London) | FY2023 | £3k | Support for a research trip to Japan to assess the legacy of Kohei Yoshiyuki's work within the sociopolitical context of his times, demonstrating his oeuvre's centrality to photographic innovation & gender studies - an exhibition and photobook to follow, March/April 2023. |
| Open City Documentary Festival | FY2023 | £3k | Support for the transport of films to be screened at a retrospective of filmmaker Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1928-2008) and travel by a speaker taking part in an academic conference exploring Tsuchimoto’s work, Japanese post-war documentary, and filmic responses to Minamata, September 2022. |
| Théatre Lapis | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel to the UK by a Japan-based actor taking part in a collaborative staged concert titled Galaxy Train, a new musical based on Kenji Miyazawa’s novel, Night on the Galactic Railroad, and performed by Japanese and UK artists at The Other Place, Battersea, March 2023. |
| De La Warr Pavilion | FY2023 | £3k | Contribution to the outbound shipping of Minoru Nomata's artwork in order to support his first solo exhibition outside of Asia and De La Warr Pavilion’s first solo exhibition by a Japanese artist, accompanied by audience engagement and learning activities, May to 4 September 2022. |
| tarinainanika | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel costs associated with the UK tour of a physical theatre show about Japanese painter Rey Camoy with accompanying workshops and talks to teach self-expression and communication skills and inspire cross-cultural interest and understanding, autumn 2023. |
| Queen's College Translation Exchange | FY2023 | £3k | Support for a two-week residency at Oxford University for writer-translator Aoko Matsuda, with award-winning writer and Japanese-English translator Polly Barton who will work closely together to run a series of public events and develop two audio-visual resources, summer 2023. |
| Reaktion Books Ltd | FY2023 | £3k | Contribution towards the colour printing of Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era by Rosina Buckland, the first comprehensive overview of Japanese art, 1865 to 1915, including 200 illustrations, and which will serve as an introduction to Japanese art of this period for students worldwide. |
| Wasano, Ms Yuki | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel by London-based artist Hiraki Sawa to Kanazawa, his birthplace, where he will hold an exhibition of video work which will highlight issues surrounding amnesia and cognitive diversity, with associated talks and music events, 23 to 31 July 2022. |
| University of Oxford, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel by Japan-based academics taking part in a two-day international academic conference at Oxford entitled Defining Culture in Post-war Japan: Views from Alternative Perspectives which will focus on actors in rural areas, women and unwritten sources, spring 2023. |
| William Morris Gallery | FY2023 | £3k | Support for travel to Japan by curator Roisin Inglesby for research, building professional connections and project development of forthcoming (Spring 2024) exhibition on the relationship between Mingei and the Arts and Crafts Movement, 2023. |
| Anglia Ruskin University, Department of English and Media | FY2023 | £2k | Support for a two-week visit to Tokyo by Professor Eugene Giddens to undertake further textual research on the works of Caroline dramatist James Shirley at Meisei University Library, the largest single repository of Shirley original texts, 3 to 17 May 2023. |
| Jaques, Zoe (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education) | FY2023 | £2k | Support for a two-week research visit to Japan by Professor Zoe Jaques who is examining the way Anglophone children’s literature has been rethought and reworked for successive generations and how in Japan it is transformed by fashion, literary and performance culture, leading to a monograph, 5 to 17 June 2023. |
| Cheltenham Festivals | FY2023 | £2k | Support for the inclusion of an author from Japan in a Japan strand at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, also including manga workshops, a Japanese film screening and Japanese literature sessions, 7 to 16 October 2022. |
| Yamaguchi University, Graduate School of Innovation and Technology Management | FY2023 | £2k | Support for three research trips to the UK by Professor Seiya Takeuchi to study the UK's intellectual property protection measures for Artificial Intelligence software creations, January, March and September 2023. |
| London Sinfonietta | FY2023 | £2k | Support for travel to the UK by Shamisen virtuoso Hidejiro Honjoh who will undertake a week-long residency culminating in a Shamisen masterclass at St Ignatius College, a state secondary school for 1,045 11 to 18-year-olds in Enfield, and the performance of UK-based Dai Fujikura’s Shamisen Concerto, part of the Fireworks concert, at London’s Southbank Centre, May 2023. |
| University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies | FY2023 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan by Professor Edward Newman to explore peacebuilding in a changing international order with Japan-based scholars and policy stakeholders and to lead a seminar at International Christian University and build a network for future initiatives, 10 to 19 July 2023. |
| Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Hokkaido Programme | FY2023 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan by Professor Andrew Reeves to deliver lectures and group work at Hokkaido University, addressing education for sustainable development via local and regional collaborations and considering sustainable community design, 3 to 10 August 2023. |
| McGill, Mr Peter | FY2023 | £2k | Support for travel to Japan by journalist Peter McGill to conduct in-person interviews and other research for a book (working title: Gaijin Past The Gate, due date 2023) on foreign attempts to take charge of Japanese companies — such as Nissan and Olympus - during and after the Japanese asset price bubble. |