Cairo Japanese School

Cairo Japanese School カイロ日本人学校 مدرسة القاهرة اليابانية
Address
NAZLET EL BATRAN EL AHRAM GIZA, A.R.EGYPT Giza Egypt
Coordinates	29.9744442°N 31.155054000000064°E / 29.9744442; 31.155054000000064
Information
Type	Japanese international school
Website	cjseg.jimdo.com

Cairo Japanese School (カイロ日本人学校, Kairo Nihonjin Gakkō, CJS; Arabic: مدرسة القاهرة اليابانية) is a Japanese international school located in Giza, Egypt in Greater Cairo.^[1] The school serves elementary and junior high school levels.^[2]

History

The school was established in 1972. The current building in Giza, in proximity to the pyramids, opened in 1988. Kajima Company built the campus.^[3]

As of March 1, 2006, 53 students were enrolled.^[4]

By February 2011 the school had 28 students. Due to political unrest related to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, the school closed temporarily and most of the students left Egypt.^[2] By July 2013 there were 33 students at the school. The school again closed temporarily due to political unrest related to the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.^[5]

Notable alumni

• Fairouz Ai, voice actress (elementary school)

See also

• Japanese people in Egypt
• Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology

References

1. Home Archived 2014-01-02 at archive.today (Archive). Cairo Japanese School. Retrieved on 2 January 2014. "NAZLET EL BATRAN EL AHRAM GIZA, A.R.EGYPT"
2. "Cairo Japanese school shuts down due to political unrest." (Archive, Alternate) Kyodo at Deccan Herald. Sunday February 6, 2011. Retrieved on 5 January 2014.
3. Scott, Anastasia. "C.J.S Cairo Japanese School" (Archive). Cairo Japanese School. August 19, 2001. Retrieved on April 17, 2015.
4. "学校の概要." () Cairo Japanese School. Retrieved on 5 January 2014. "カイロ日本人学校に在籍する児童生徒は５３名（２００６年３月1日現在）で、[...]"
5. "エジプト混乱、邦人警戒　ツアー中止、企業は国外退避." Archived 2014-01-05 at archive.today Asahi Shimbun. 5 July 2013. Retrieved on 5 January 2014. "小中学生３３人が通うカイロ日本人学校は、不測の事態を避けるために６月３０日から臨時休校。クーデター前後に２家族が帰国した。校長の山村良一さん（５５）は「先行き不透明で再開の判断が難しい。早く落ち着いて[...]"

Further reading

• 眞壁 四郎 (滋賀県長浜市立長浜南小学校・カイロ日本人学校(前)). "カイロ日本人学校における学校経営(第6章学校経営)." 在外教育施設における指導実践記録 27, 105–108, 2004. Tokyo Gakugei University. See profile at CiNii.

External links

• Cairo Japanese School (in Japanese)
• Cairo Japanese School at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Japanese)
• Cairo Japanese School at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Japanese) (Archive 2001–2002)
• Cairo Japanese School at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Japanese) (earlier archive)
  • "English information". Archived from the original on 2001-08-19. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
• Cairo Japanese School Alumni Association (カイロ日本人学校 同窓会) (in Japanese)