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The IUC is considered one of the top Japanese schools in the world. [6] Former U.S. ambassador to Japan and vice-president Walter Mondale called it "imperative for the sake of America's future relations with [Japan]", and former ambassador and Speaker of the House Thomas Foley noted that its graduates play a "central part" in the U.S.-Japan ...
When she returned to Hawaii, Tachikawa decided to start her own, all-girls school called the Tachikawa Jogakko in Honolulu. She wanted to mold her students into yamato nadeshiko, ideal Japanese women. [4] Though the school closed during World War II, it reopened in 1949 as a co-educational Japanese language school. It grew to 650 students at ...
Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools, HMS first opened its doors in 1949 and was the first Buddhist school established outside Japan. HMS has a maximum student-teacher ratio of 18:1. Japanese-language classes are part of the curriculum at all grade levels. The campus ...
The dialogical approach to Japanese-American intercultural encounter. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI. Yoshikawa, M. J. (1984). Culture, cognition, and communication: Implications of the “paradoxical relationship” for intercultural communication. Communication and Cognition, 17(4), 377-385.
By 1991 many overseas Japanese high schools were accepting students who were resident in Japan, and some wealthier families in Japan chose to send their children to Japanese schools abroad instead of Japanese schools in Japan. [12] While Japan was experiencing a major recession called the Lost Decade in the 1990s, so were nihonjin gakkō. Many ...
The oldest U.S. Japanese weekend school with Japanese government sponsorship is the Washington Japanese Language School (ワシントン日本語学校, Washington Nihongo Gakkō), [20] founded in 1958 and serving the Washington, DC metropolitan area. [21]
By 1920, 98% of all Japanese children in Hawaii attended Japanese schools. Statistics for 1934 showed 183 schools taught a total of 41,192 students. [26] [27] [28] Today, Japanese schools in Hawaii operate as supplementary education (usually on Friday nights or Saturday mornings) which is on top of the compulsory education required by the state.
Hawaii Tokai International College (HTIC) is an American two-year liberal arts college located in Kapolei, Hawaii. It was established in Honolulu on May 22, 1992, in the Mo‘ili‘ili community neighboring Waikiki. Initially called "Tokai International College," its first academic term began on October 8, 1992.