It opened in October 1973, making it the first Japanese school in Spain and the third-oldest in Europe if the Canary Islands are counted as being in Europe.[2] A Japanese teacher arrived to the island as it opened.[3] The school served members of the Japanese community involved in the fishing industry. Due to regulations, the business decreased in size, and accordingly the school decreased in size.[4]
In 2001, the Japanese fleet was moved from Las Palmas, leading to a reduction in the area's Japanese community. The number of students fell below the minimum number supported by the Japanese government.[3] It was closed in March 2001,[5] and was replaced by the Escuela Complementaria Japonesa de Las Palmas (ラスパルマス日本語学校), a part-time school.[3] The decline of the Japanese community of Las Palmas led many institutions catering to the Japanese community, including the day school, to close.[2] The closure of the day school resulted in the demise of the island's Japanese cultural exchange programme.[6]
References
^"欧州の日本人学校一覧" (Archive). MEXT. Retrieved on 6 April 2015. "ラス・パルマス Japanese School of Las Palmas Carretera Del Centro 47, Tafira Alta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Espana "
^ abÁvila Tàpies, Rosalía (University of Kyoto) and Josefina Domínguez Mujica (Universidad de Las Palmas). "The Canary Islands in the Japanese Imaginary: The Analysis of Three Contemporary NarrativesArchived 2015-11-26 at the Wayback Machine" (Spanish: Canarias en el imaginario japonés: el análisis de tres narrativas contemporáneas;, PDF archive). Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos ISSN 0570-4065, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2011), no. 57, pp. 525-56. Received 26 May 2010. Accepted 30 June 2010. English abstract available. CITATION, p. 528 (PDF 4/38): "El descenso de japoneses afectó a estas instituciones y a la asistencia prestada. Así,[...]El colegio japonés «rasuparumasu nihonjin gakko-» en Tafira Baja, abierto en el año 1973 (octubre) como el tercer colegio japonés más antiguo de Europa y el primero de España, se cerró definitivamente en el 2000 (marzo)."
^"ラスパルマス日本人学校の概要" (Las Palmas Japanese School profile). Las Palmas Japanese School. June 10, 2000. Retrieved on January 13, 2019. "企業も目立ち、児童・生徒数も多かった。しかし、近年アフリカ西海岸のタコ・イカ漁に対する規制が厳しくなり、企業の事務所移転や人員削減があり、本校の児童・生徒数も減少の傾向にある。こうした中で、小規模・少人数学級の特性を生かして、基礎・基本の徹底はもちろん、「創造活動」と「情緒・体力養成の活動」の2本立で、"
^"INTERCAMBIOS CULTURALES CON LA CULTURA JAPONESA EN EL CEIP "MANOLO ORTEGA"". Intercambio de experiencias (Revista 4). Tamadab (Centros de Profesorado de Gran Canaria), Government of the Canary Islands. 2001-04-25. Retrieved 2019-01-13. Pero lamentablemente todo tiene un final, en este caso se trata del cierre definitivo del colegio japonés de Las Palmas, [...] Siempre es triste que un centro deba cerrar sus puertas,
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Turkey is not included in the classification of Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and usually only include, within the Japanese system, primary and junior high school levels. Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools. MEXT categorizes Japanese sections of European international schools as hoshū jugyō kō part-time schools and not as full-time schools. See the template for part-time schools.
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