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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.
Canadian International School (Tokyo) Chiba Korean Primary and Junior High School; Christian Academy in Japan; Chuo Elementary School (Tokyo) Colegio Hispano Americano de Gunma; Columbia International School
The school was destroyed in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 74 of its 108 students, who had been sheltering in the school on the instructions of their teachers rather than evacuating to higher ground, were killed as the tsunami ran up the nearby Kitakami River. Only four of the students present when the tsunami struck the school survived.
Today, there have been instances of organisations and events bearing the name of terakoya in modern Japan, such as the Nichiren-affiliated Hosei-ji temple in Tokyo which held a two-day terakoya gathering in which elementary schoolers engaged in religious practices such as the copying of Buddhist images (写仏 shabutsu) and disciplined study of sutras while seated in the seiza style, in ...
Kyoto International School; Marist Brothers International School; New International School (Tokyo), Tokyo; Nishimachi International School, Tokyo [1] Osaka International School; St. Mary's International School; Saint Maur International School; Seisen International School, Tokyo; Tokyo International School; Tokyo Korean School; Tokyo West ...
It was created in 1993 as the merger of Kinka Elementary School (錦華小学校), Nishikanda Elementary School (西神田小学), and Ogawa Elementary School (小川小学校). The Kinka building became the Ochanomizu Elementary building.
Elementary schools in Japan (61 P) G. ... Japanese school stubs (1 C, 212 P) Pages in category "Schools in Japan"
Gakushūin in 1933 Gakushuin emblem. The Gakushūin (学習 院), or Gakushuin School Corporation (学校法人学習院), historically known as the Peers' School, [1] is a Japanese educational institution in Tokyo, originally established as Gakushūjo (学習所) to educate the children of Japan's nobility. [2]