Hong Kong Japanese School and Japanese International School 香港日本人学校 香港日本人學校 | |
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![]() Primary and junior high campus in Happy Valley, Wan Chai District | |
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Primary & Secondary: No. 157 Blue Pool Road International: No. 4663 Tai Po Road, Tai Po, NT | |
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Type | Elementary and junior high school |
Grades | 1–9 |
Website | www |
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Traditional Chinese | 香港日本人學校 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 香港日本人学校 | ||||||||||
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Kanji | 香港日本人学校 | ||||||||||
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The Hong Kong Japanese School and Japanese International School (HKJS&JIS) is a Japanese international school in Hong Kong. It consists of a Japanese section and international section. The Hong Kong Japanese School Limited operates the school system. [1]
The Japanese primary and secondary school sections are in a campus located along Blue Pool Road,in Happy Valley. [2] The international school is in Tai Po. The Tai Po campus opened in 1997. [3] The Japanese secondary school was previously located in Braemar Hill,North Point. [4]
As of 2020 [update] the principal of the secondary section is Osamu Kobayashi (小林修,Kobayashi Osamu), [5] the principal of the Hong Kong Island Japanese elementary school is Yoshitaka Yamazaki (山崎秀哲,Yamazaki Yoshitaka), [6] the principal of the Tai Po Japanese elementary school is Misato Kitanaka (北中美郷,Kitanaka Misato), [7] and the principal of the international section is Joshua Blue, [8] replacing Simon Walton,who retired in 2022. [9]
A school for Japanese children opened in 1946,with eight people employed to teach. South China Morning Post stated the initial enrollment was 70. [10]
According to the HKJS website,it was established in May 1966 (Showa 41), [11] and opened on 10 May of that year. According to Vivienne Poy,her father,Richard Charles Lee,helped facilitate the establishment of the school. It opened because the government of Japan dedicated a subsidiary budget for it. The initial enrollment was 70, [12] and the initial principal was Ichiro Fujita (藤田一郎 [13] ,Fujita Ichirō). [12]
The initial location was floors two and three of Tower Court [12] (崇明大廈). [14] Its official opening ceremony was on 15 October. At the time it covered only primary grades,and its enrollment was 84. [15] Additional space in the Ling Ying Building (嶺英商場 [14] ) was used, [16] beginning in April 1971,for kindergarten and primary school classes. [17] The current Japanese section elementary campus opened on 24 January 1976. On 23 October 1982 the Japanese section junior high campus opened. [16]
Beginning circa 1994 the school engaged in exchange programmes with Hong Kong schools for children from Hong Kong and with other international schools in Hong Kong and Macau. [18]
In 1996 protesters against Japanese claims on the Senkaku Islands/Diaoyu Islands did activities outside of the Happy Valley school,as part of the Senkaku Islands dispute. Principal Akihiro Kaku argued that the consulate general would have been a more appropriate protest area,not the school. [19] The Hong Kong Post characterized the incident as an attack against the school. [20]
In 1994 the school system asked the Hong Kong government for permission to build a new school for an international section. [10] The international school in Tai Po opened in 1997. The funds used to build the campus came from a grant issued by the Hong Kong government. [21]
In April 2018 the junior high school moved to the Happy Valley campus. [22]
The Japanese division uses the Japanese school calendar and curriculum while the English-medium international division uses Hong Kong's school calendar. The international division has students who will reside in Hong Kong and/or otherwise reside outside of Japan in the long run. [23]
157 Blue Pool Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kongand "Home". Hong Kong Japanese School Primary School Section. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
157 Blue Pool Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong
香港日本人学校香港校中学部 校長 小林 修
香港日本人学校香港校校長山崎秀哲
2019年 4月 北中 美郷(きたなか みさと) 香港日本人学校大埔校 校長
開園式を挙行 71 年 4 月児童生徒数増のため嶺英校舎を借り上げ(幼稚部・小学部の一部)
中学部は、2018年4月の新年度より、以下の所在地に移転します. No. 157 Blue Pool Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong. (香港校と同じ場所です)
(in Japanese)