Japanese School of Guam
グアム日本人学校
Address
Map
170 Terao Street, Mangilao, GU 96913

Mangilao
,
Guam

United States
Coordinates13°26′52″N 144°48′32″E / 13.447854°N 144.809026°E / 13.447854; 144.809026
Information
TypePrimary & middle school
Grades1-9
Websitejapaneseschoolguam.com

The Japanese School of Guam (グアム日本人学校, Guamu Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Mangilao, Guam.[1][2] It includes both day school and weekend supplementary school divisions, and the school also holds Japanese language classes.[3] As of April 2013 Toyohito Yoneyama is the chairperson of the school.[4]

History

Prior to the establishment of the day school, Japanese children in Guam attended a special supplementary Japanese school.[5] 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.[6]

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 of 1988.[7][8] 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.[6] The dedication occurred the previous March.[9] The building, with 10 classrooms, had a total cost of $2,000,000.[10]

The school received its current name on March 17, 1999 (Heisei 11).[6][11]

A kindergarten division was created in 2002, with 2 students enrolling that year.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Private Schools in Guam Archived 2014-01-02 at the Wayback Machine." (Archive) Morale Welfare & Recreation Office, Guam (MRW Guam). March 19, 2012. p. 2 of 4. Retrieved on January 2, 2014. "170 Terao St, Mangilao, Guam 96913."
  2. ^ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Mangilao CDP, GU" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  3. ^ Home page. Japanese School of Guam. Retrieved on January 12, 2015. "Faculty 1 : FULLTIME DIVISION (Guam Nihonjin Gakko) Faculty 2 : SUPPLEMENTARY DIVISION(Guam Hoshu-Ko) Faculty 3 : JAPANESE LANGUAGE CLASS"
  4. ^ Kerrigan, Kevin. "First Hawaiian Bank Donates $5,000 to the Japanese School of Guam." (Archive) Pacific News Center. Tuesday April 9, 2013. Retrieved on January 2, 2014.
  5. ^ Glimpses of Guam. Glimpses of Micronesia, Volumes 24-25. Glimpses of Guam, Incorporated, 1984. p. 21. "Yet, while Japanese children on Guam devoutly attend a special Japanese school to enhance their reading, writing and[...]"
  6. ^ a b c "About Us." Japanese School of Guam. Retrieved on December 5, 2017.
  7. ^ Congressional Record, V. 146, Pt. 7, May 24, 2000 to June 12, 2000. United States Congress. Government Printing Office, 2004. p. 10628. "Between 1987 and 1989, he was a member of the committee to establish a Japanese school on Guam." (Tribute to Akira Inoue)
  8. ^ a b "沿革 | グアム日本人学校 グアム補習授業校" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-03-25.
  9. ^ Taitano, Zita Y. (1990-03-25). "New Japanese school building dedicated". Pacific Daily News. Agana Heights, Guam. p. 3A. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Kohler, Christine (1989-09-02). "Japanese school in the making". Pacific Daily News. Agana Heights, Guam. p. 5. - Clipping from Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "北米の日本人学校一覧（平成24年4月15日現在）." Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. January 13, 2015. Retrieved on December 20, 2017. "グアム日本人学校 [...] The Japanese School of Guam 旧　アガナ日本人学校（平成11年3月17日変更）"

Further reading

(in Japanese)

External links

Mangilao, Guam
Education in Guam
International schools in the United States
Overseas Japanese day and boarding schools
Overseas Japanese weekend/supplementary schools (Hoshū jugyō kō)
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