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The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS, ) is a weekend Japanese school as well as a two week summer school serving the
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" San Francisco Japanese School. Retrieved on September 27, 2016. " Address San Francisco Japanese School 22 Battery Street, #612 San Francisco, CA 94111" and "San Francisco Grades K-6 A.P. Giannini MS 3151 Ortega St. San Francisco, CA ..Grades 7-11 Lowell HS 1101 Eucalyptus Dr. San Francisco, CA" and "San Jose Grades K-6 The Harker School Blackford Campus 3800 Blackford Ave. San Jose, CA ..Grades 7-11 J.F. Kennedy MS 821 Bubb Road Cupertino, CA"
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and was the world's second largest overseas Japanese weekend school in 2006.Kano, Naomi (加納 なおみ ''Kanō Naomi''). "Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population" (Chapter 6). In: García, Ofelia, Zeena Zakharia, and Bahar Otcu (editors). ''Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City'' (Volume 89 of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism).
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The school is supported by the Japanese government. The SFJS rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016. The student body was 1,116 in 2006. Two of the schools are in San Francisco and two are in the South Bay. For elementary students it operates out of the A. P. Giannini Middle School in San Francisco and
The Harker School Blackford Campus The Harker School is a private, non-profit school located in San Jose, California. Founded in 1893 as Manzanita Hall, Harker now has three campuses: Bucknall, Union, and Saratoga, named after the streets on which they lie. About The Bucknall ca ...
in San Jose. For junior high school and high school students it operates out of Lowell High School in San Francisco and the J. F. Kennedy Middle School in
Cupertino Cupertino ( ) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 57,8 ...
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History

The school was first established in 1968. The school previously had the English name San Francisco Japanese Language Class, Inc (SFJLC), and it previously held junior high and high school-level classes at Hyde Junior High School in Cupertino while its elementary level classes were out of Kennedy Middle.北米の補習授業校一覧


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. January 2, 2003. Retrieved on April 8, 2015. "サンフランシスコ San Francisco Japanese Language Class, Inc(連絡先)760 Market Street, No.816 San Francisco, CA 94102, U.S.A. ..小学部)c/o J.F.Kennedy Jr.High School 821 Bubb Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014, U.S.A ..中・高等部)c/o Hyde Jr, High School 19325 Bollinger Rd., Cupertino, CA 95129, U.S.A "
At a later point it previously held high school classes at Herbert Hoover Middle School in San Francisco.About

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. San Francisco Japanese School. Retrieved on April 17, 2015.
As of 2006, there were increasing numbers of Japanese permanent residents and fewer numbers of Japanese temporary residents. The economic decline of Japan and the reduction in overseas corporate postings was the cause of the latter condition.Kano, Naomi. "Japanese Community Schools: New Pedagogy for a Changing Population" (Chapter 6). In: García, Ofelia, Zeena Zakharia, and Bahar Otcu (editors). ''Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City'' (Volume 89 of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism).
Multilingual Matters Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...
, 2012. , 9781847698001. START: p
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CITED: p
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See also

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History of the Japanese in San Francisco There is a Japanese American and a Japanese national population in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area. The center of the Japanese and Japanese American community is in San Francisco's Japantown. History Japan had maintained an officia ...


References


Further reading

* 梶田 正巳 and 松本 一子 (名古屋大学教育学部:愛知淑徳大学留学生別科).
<原著>サンフランシスコ日本語補習校と現地校に通う子どもたち

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. ''Bulletin of the School of Education'' (名古屋大學教育學部紀要). Psychology (心理学) 46, 15-20, 1999-12-27. Nagoya University
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