New Jersey Japanese School

The New Jersey Japanese School ニュージャージー日本人学校
Address
117 Franklin Ave, Oakland, NJ 07436 Oakland, Bergen County , New Jersey United States
Coordinates	41.02841°N 74.22650°W / 41.02841; -74.22650
Information
Type	Primary & middle school
Grades	1-9
Website	newjerseyjapaneseschool.org

The New Jersey Japanese School (ニュージャージー日本人学校, Nyūjājī Nihonjin Gakkō, NJJS) is a private school, Japanese school located in Oakland, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, in the New York City metropolitan area.^[1] It is one of the two Japanese day schools operated by the Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai), a nonprofit organization which also operates two Japanese weekend school systems in the New York City area.^[2]

The school's students are primarily Japanese expatriates. It has 59 students in grades 1–9 as of August 2022^[3] with a student-teacher ratio of 4 to 1^{[citation needed]}. The goal of the school is to prepare them for the Japanese educational system when the students eventually return to Japan. It occupies space rented from the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. As of 2009^[update] it had 90 students.^[4]

History

The Japanese School of New York established a branch campus in New Jersey on April 1, 1992, with grades one through four.^[5]

Its original enrollment was 13, but by May 1993 it had 60 students. That month, the school employed three Americans as teachers, while Japanese people had other teaching positions.^[6]

On April 1, 1999, the branch campus became its own school, The New Jersey Japanese School.^[5]

See also

• Japanese in New York City
• Japanese Weekend School of New York - Japanese weekend school in the New York City area
• New York Seikatsu Press
• American School in Japan, American international school in Tokyo

References

1. "アクセス・マップ Archived 2013-10-31 at the Wayback Machine" ("Access Map") Map. The New Jersey Japanese School. Retrieved on January 9, 2012. "117 Franklin Ave, Oakland, NJ 07436"
2. "学校案内" (Archive). Japanese Educational Institute of New York (ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会). Retrieved on April 15, 2015. The names of the weekend schools as stated on the pages should be "The Japanese Weekend School of New York" and "The Japanese Weekend School of New Jersey" - note that the Japanese names between the day and weekend schools are different.
3. "学校沿革 – ニュージャージー日本人学校" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-03-25.
4. Devencentis, Philip, Christina Hernandez, Chris Nesi, and Marsha Stoltz. "Celebrating Thanksgiving in many languages." Waldwick Suburban News. Wednesday November 25, 2009. 2 (Archive of page 1 and Archive of page 2). Retrieved on January 9, 2012.
5. "本校の歩み Archived 2014-01-17 at archive.today." The Japanese School of New York. Retrieved on January 10, 2012. "１９９２．　４．　１ New Jersey分校開校。１年～４年 各１学級設置。" and "１９９９．　４．　１ New Jersey分校独立。"
6. Wickenhaver, Janet (1993-05-25). "School bridges cultural divide". The Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. p. B-3. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.

Further reading

• 西田 直嗣 and 鈴木 晶子. "A Creative Music Composition to Student in The New Jersey Japanese School : To Make Tone Row" (ニュージャージー日本人学校における「創造的音楽学習」の取り組み : 音列を創る). 群馬大学教育学部紀要. 芸術・技術・体育・生活科学編 47, 17–25, 2012. 群馬大学教育学部. See profile at CiNii.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• New Jersey Japanese School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
• The Japanese Educational Institute of New York (in Japanese)