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An elementary school class in Japan. In Japan, elementary schools (小学校, Shōgakkō) are compulsory to all children begin first grade in the April after they turn six—kindergarten is growing increasingly popular, but is not mandatory—and starting school is considered a very important event in a child's life.
A typical classroom in a Japanese junior high school. The lower secondary school covers grades seven through nine, with children typically aged twelve through fifteen. There are 3.2 million primary school students in Japan as of 2023, down from over 5.3 million in 1991. [35]
The term summer vacation or summer break refers to a school break in the summer between school years and the break in the school academic year. Students are off anywhere between two weeks to three and a half months. Depending on the country and district, staff might be partially or fully excluded.
In Japan, this usually refers to school meals served as lunch. The origin of school meals provided in Japan is in 1889, where an elementary school provided free meals for children who could not bring food to school. Post–World War II school meals usually had a loaf of bread and skimmed milk, although rice returned to school meals in 1976.
Peppy Kids Club (ペッピーキッズクラブ, peppi kizzu kurabu) is a private eikaiwa English conversation school run by iTTTi Japan for children from 2.5 years old to high-school age. As of 2012 [update] , Peppy Kids Club has over 1400 locations with 95,000 students in every prefecture including Okinawa. [ 1 ]
Chiben Gakuen Middle School (Campuses in Nara and Wakayama) Fukuoka Daiichi High School; Friends School; Horikoshi High School; Joshibi High School of Art and Design; Musashi Junior & Senior High School; Kaisei Academy; Yamamura Kokusai High School; Taku Senior High School; Seien Girls' High School; Kobe Ryūkoku Junior High School, High School ...
Japanese people school), also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan intended primarily for Japanese citizens living abroad. It is an expatriate school designed for children whose parents are working on diplomatic, business, or education missions overseas and have plans to repatriate to Japan.
Benjamin, Gail. Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School through the Eyes of an American Anthropologist and Her Children. New York: New York University Press, 1998. DeCoker, Gary, editor. National Standards and School Reform in Japan and the United States. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. Ellington, Lucien.