The Japanese School in Zurich (german: Japanische Schule in Zürich, ja, チューリッヒ日本人学校 ''Chūrihhi Nihonjin Gakkō'') is a
Japanese international school in
Uster
Uster (High Alemannic: ''Uschter'') is a town and the capital of the Uster District in the Swiss canton of Zürich.
It is the third largest town in the canton of Zürich, with almost 35,000 inhabitants, and is one of the twenty largest towns i ...
,
Canton of Zürich,
Switzerland, situated in the
Zurich metropolitan area. It has a day school division and it has a
weekend complementary school that meets on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is the sole non-boarding Japanese day school in Switzerland,
[Eine Insel Nippons mitten in der Schweiz]
Archive
. '' Neue Zürcher Zeitung''. 9 June 2005. Retrieved on 23 April 2015. "Bei der 1988 gegründeten Tagesschule in Uster handelt es sich um die einzige japanische Schule in der Schweiz, .. and " ..ässt das Gespräch mit der Journalistin durch den japanischen Englischlehrer und die Schulsekretärin übersetzen und versichert, die Schüler aller Stufen müssten zweimal pro Woche Deutsch büffeln - neben Englisch und Japanisch." and it serves kindergarten, elementary school, and junior high school (equivalent to Zurich cantonal Sekundarstufe I).
Japanese School in Zurich's primary education program (''elementary'') is approved as ''Primarstufe'' by the bureau for elementary school (''Volksschulamt''), administration for education (''Bildungsdirektion''), canton of Zurich. However, not the Kindergarten.
The Japanese School in Zurich's lower secondary education program (''junior-secondary'') is approved as ''Sekundarstufe'' by the bureau for elementary school (Volksschulamt), administration for education (''Bildungsdirektion''), canton of Zurich.
On 20 October 1975, the Japanese Language School in Zurich (german: Japanische Schule Zürich), the predecessor institution, opened with 15 students. On 23 April 1988, the permanent day school Japanese School in Zurich opened with 57 students, of which 50 were elementary school students and 7 were junior high school students.
Home page
(English)
. Japanese School in Zurich. Retrieved on 2 January 2014.
Students take Japanese and English courses, and they also take German two times every week.
See also
* Kumon Leysin Academy of Switzerland
is a private high school in Leysin, Switzerland, founded by the Kumon Gakuen Educational Foundation in 1990.
The school, a '' Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu'' ( 私立在外教育施設) or an overseas branch of a Japanese private school, , private Japanese high school in Switzerland
Further reading
*
Japanische Schule
" ''Schweiz Aktuell''. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a Swiss broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF). The n ...
. 15 April 2002.
References
External links
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Japanese School in Zurich
Japanese School in Zurich
(Archive) – Mid-2000s
Japanese School in Zurich
(Archive) – 1999–2000
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Buildings and structures in the canton of Zürich
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Educational institutions established in 1988
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