• Source: Japanese School of Guam

      • The Japanese School of Guam (グアム日本人学校, Guamu Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Mangilao, Guam. It includes both day school and weekend supplementary school divisions, and the school also holds Japanese language classes. As of April 2013 Toyohito Yoneyama is the chairperson of the school.


      History


      Prior to the establishment of the day school, Japanese children in Guam attended a special supplementary Japanese school. The Guam Japanese Association began considering making one in March 1972 and it opened by May 1973. It occupied the conference room of the Japan Airlines office at Guam Airport, then St. John's School beginning in September 1975, then to the Fujita Hotel beginning in September 1979, then six classrooms in Tamuning Elementary School beginning in July 1987.
      Around the years 1987-1989 there was a committee held to establish a Japanese day school in Guam, with the decision to formally create a Japanese school being made in April 1988. The day school opened in April 1989 as the Agana Japanese School (アガナ日本人学校 Agana Nihonjin Gakkō). Originally its campus was the Pacific Islands Club (PIC) Hotel in Tamuning, near Hagåtña (Agana), which now housed both day and weekend schools. In April 1990 the permanent campus in Mangilao opened. The dedication occurred the previous March. The building, with 10 classrooms, had a total cost of $2,000,000.
      The school received its current name on March 17, 1999 (Heisei 11).
      A kindergarten division was created in 2002, with 2 students enrolling that year.


      See also



      American School in Japan, American international school in Tokyo


      References




      Further reading


      (in Japanese)

      Shibano, Juichi (2018). "日本人学校における教員のトランスナショナルな教育実践 グアムの在外教育施設を事例に" [A Case Study of Teachers’ Transnational Educational Practices in the Japanese School of Guam]. Multicultural Relations (in Japanese) (15): 35–49. doi:10.20657/jsmrejournal.15.0_35. - Profile - Shibano's name is written in Japanese as 芝野 淳一.
      Shibano, Juichi (2014). "日本人学校教員の「日本らしさ」をめぐる実践と葛藤 : トランスナショナル化する在外教育施設を事例に" [Teachers' Practice and Conflict of "Japaneseness" in Transnationalized Japanese Educational Institutions Overseas : A Case Study of the Japanese School of Guam]. 教育社会学研究 (95). 東洋館出版社: 111–130. - See profile at CiNii. English Abstract Available.
      馬渕 豊 (前グアム日本人学校:静岡県浜松市立神久呂小学校). "グアム日本人学校における言語の教育(教科指導) ." 在外教育施設における指導実践記録 33, 59-62, 2010-12-24. Tokyo Gakugei University. See profile at CiNii.
      小平 孝昌 (栃木県小山市立大谷東小学校・グァム日本人学校(前)). "グアム日本人学校における総合的な学習の実践(第3章総合的な学習)." 在外教育施設における指導実践記録 28, 36-39, 2005. Tokyo Gakugei University. See profile at CiNii.


      External links


      (in Japanese) Japanese School of Guam - Full day and weekend school page
      Japanese School of Guam (English site) at Google Sites
      (in Japanese) Japanese School of Guam old website (geocities.co.jp/NeverLand/3604/) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
      (in Japanese) Guam Hoshuko old website (geocities.jp/guamjapanese_school/index.html) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
      (in Japanese) Japanese School of Guam old website (gvb.com/jsg/index.html) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
      (in Japanese) Japanese School of Guam at the Japan Club of Guam (グアム日本人会 Guamu Nihonjinkai)
      (in Japanese) Japanese School of Guam at the Wayback Machine (archive index) at the Japan Club of Guam
      (in Japanese) Japan Club of Guam

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