Japanese School in Zurich

Japanese School in Zurich チューリッヒ日本人学 Japanische Schule in Zürich

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Florastr.18a 8610 Uster Uster Switzerland
Coordinates	Coordinates: 47°20′51″N 8°43′14″E / 47.347464°N 8.720460°E / 47.347464; 8.720460
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Type	Primary & middle school
Grades	1-9
Website	jszurich.ch

The Japanese School in Zurich (German: Japanische Schule in Zürich, Japanese: チューリッヒ日本人学 Chūrihhi Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Uster, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland, situated in the Zurich metropolitan area.^[1] It has a day school division and it has a weekend complementary school that meets on Wednesdays and Saturdays.^[2] It is the sole non-boarding Japanese day school in Switzerland,^[3] and it serves kindergarten, elementary school, and junior high school (equivalent to Zurich cantonal Sekundarstufe I).

Japanese School in Zurich's primary education program (elementary) is approved as Primarstufe by the bureau for elementary school (Volksschulamt), administration for education (Bildungsdirektion), canton of Zurich. However, not the Kindergarten.^[4]

Also Japanese School in Zurich's lower secondary education program (junior-secondary) is approved as Sekundarstufe by the bureau for elementary school (Volksschulamt), administration for education (Bildungsdirektion), canton of Zurich.^[4]

On October 20, 1975, the Japanese Language School in Zurich (German: Japanische Schule Zürich), the predecessor institution, opened with 15 students. On April 23, 1988, the permanent day school Japanese School in Zurich opened with 57 students, of which 50 were elementary school students and 7 were junior high school students.^[5]

Students take Japanese and English courses, and they also take German two times every week.^[3]

References

↑ Home page. Japanese School in Zurich. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.
↑ "English page Archived 2014-01-02 at Archive.is." Japanese School in Zurich. Retrieved on 7 March 2015.
1 2 "Eine Insel Nippons mitten in der Schweiz" (Archive). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 9 June 2005. Retrieved on 23 April 2015. "Bei der 1988 gegründeten Tagesschule in Uster handelt es sich um die einzige japanische Schule in der Schweiz,[...]" and "[...]lässt das Gespräch mit der Journalistin durch den japanischen Englischlehrer und die Schulsekretärin übersetzen und versichert, die Schüler aller Stufen müssten zweimal pro Woche Deutsch büffeln - neben Englisch und Japanisch."
1 2 "Aufsicht Privatschulen" (official site) (in German). Zurich, Switzerland: Volkschulamt, Bildungsdirektion, Kanton Zürich. 14 April 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
↑ Home page (English) (Archive). Japanese School in Zurich. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.

External links

Official website
Japanese School in Zurich (in Japanese)/(in German)
Japanese School in Zurich (Archive) – Mid-2000s
Japanese School in Zurich (Archive) – 1999–2000

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Overseas Japanese day and boarding schools

Schools with Japan system senior high school classes are marked with asterisks (*). Weekend/supplementary schools (hoshū jugyō kō) are located in a separate template

Nihonjin gakkō

Africa	Cairo Johannesburg Nairobi
Australia	Melbourne Perth Sydney
East, South, and Southeast Asia	Bangkok Beijing Colombo Dalian Dhaka Guangzhou Hanoi Hong Kong Ho Chi Minh City Islamabad Jakarta Kaohsiung Karachi Kuala Lumpur Manila Mumbai New Delhi Seoul Shanghai(*) Shenzhen Singapore Sriracha, Thailand Suzhou Taichung Taipei Yangon
Europe	Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Brussels Bucharest Budapest Düsseldorf Frankfurt Hamburg London Madrid Milan Moscow Munich Paris Prague Rome Rotterdam Vienna Warsaw Zurich
Middle East	Abu Dhabi Bahrain Doha Dubai Istanbul Jeddah Riyadh Tehran
Mexico and Central America	Mexico City Panama City San José
South America	Lima Manaus Rio de Janeiro São Paulo
United States	Chicago Greenwich (New York area) Guam New Jersey (New York area)

Shiritsu zaigai
kyōiku shisetsu

Unapproved by MEXT

Closed

Closed nihonjin gakkō	Athens
Closed Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu	Gyosei International School UK() Lycée Konan() Lycée Seijo() South Queensland Academy() Sundai Ireland() Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School() Toin Gakuen Schule() Tokai University Boarding School()
Closed unapproved schools	International Bilingual School

Turkey is not included in the classification of Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT).
Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and usually only include, within the Japanese system, primary and junior high school levels. Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools.
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Overseas Japanese weekend/supplementary schools (Hoshū jugyō kō)

With Japanese
gov't teachers

Europe	Brussels Geneva London
North America	Chicago Dallas Detroit Guam Houston Los Angeles area JWS of New York Portland, Oregon Princeton, New Jersey San Francisco JS Seattle area Toronto
Oceania	Queensland

W/o Japanese
gov't teachers

Europe	Düsseldorf Madrid Zurich
North America	Minneapolis JS Minnesota JS Montreal Orlando St. Louis
Oceania	Canberra Melbourne
South America	Quito

Int'l schools w/
MEXT-designated
Japanese sections

Unapproved
by MEXT

The Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) designates most of these schools as hoshū jugyō kō. Schools in italics are not designated as such by MEXT.

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Japanese School in Zurich

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