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The front of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center Complex, formerly the Nihon Go Gakko. Nihon Go Gakko (シアトル日本語学校, Shiatoru Nihongo Gakko), also known as the Japanese Language School (JLS), is a National Register of Historic Places in King County based at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington located on the periphery of the Seattle International District.
Japanese in the United Kingdom include British citizens of Japanese ancestry (Japanese: 日系イギリス人, Hepburn: Nikkei Igirisujin) or permanent residents of Japanese birth or citizenship, as well as expatriate business professionals and their dependents on limited-term employment visas, students, trainees and young people participating in the UK government-sponsored Youth Mobility Scheme.
The school taught classes on the English language, the Japanese language, and Japanese culture. [7] During World War II the building was used to gather Japanese residents during World War II, before sending them to internment camps. [8] The University of Washington bought the building in 1993 after it established a campus in Tacoma.
Seattle's Japanese community received almost no active support during this time. Among the few exceptions included University of Washington President Lee Paul Sieg, who took a leadership role in advocating for and facilitating the transfer of Nisei students to universities and colleges outside the West Coast to help them avoid being interned. [28]
Lower Columbia College, Longview; Moody Aviation, Spokane; North Seattle College, Seattle [8] Olympic College, Bremerton [9] Pierce College, Lakewood; Seattle Central College, Seattle [10] Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon; South Seattle College, Seattle [11] Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane; Tacoma Community College, Tacoma
The IUC offers one 10-month program during the academic year and another shorter program during the summer months. The programs are focused on advanced Japanese suitable for professional or academic use, [3] and prospective students must have completed at least two years of college-level training and pass a language exam to be eligible for enrollment. [4]
In addition to its undergraduate journal, Jackson Journal, the school also houses two refereed journals, the Journal of Japanese Studies and the Journal of Korean Studies. The Sephardic Studies Digital Library Collection is a collection of digitized works concerning Sephardic Jews, at the University of Washington in Seattle. It was created by ...
British Japanese or British-Japanese may be: Britons in Japan; Japanese community in the United Kingdom; As an adjective, ...