The Japanese School of Amsterdam (JSA, , Amusuterudamu Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Amsterdam."JSA-tope.htm."The Japanese School of Amsterdam. Retrieved on 2 February 2014. "Karel Klinkenbergstraat 137, 1061AL Amsterdam" As of 1997, the JSA is the Japanese school for about 66% of the Japanese nationals in the country.Farber, Jules B. ... But give me Amsterdam (4th Edition). , 1997. , 9789021593760. p. 96 (See View #2). "The Japanese School of Amsterdam, founded in 1979 with a primary and junior high school curriculum for an initial 42 students, now has circa 350 pupils and serves two thirds of all the Japanese in the Netherlands. The parents are primarily businessmen, educators, and diplomats. [...] Dutch language classes are mandatory for the first 5 grades. An exchange[...]" The Japanese government subsidizes the school. - JPG, text, PDF of whole paper (PDF page 5/32)

History It was founded in 1979 with 42 students in elementary and junior high school levels.

Its original location was on Frans Halsstraat.

The school was established to provide a Japanese-style education to children of Japanese national employees living in the city. It had 320 students in 1989. - JPG, text, PDF of whole paper (article on PDF page 43/52)

As of April 2022, there were about 170 students enrolled at the JSA.

Culture As of 1989, the students at the school had some baseball tournaments in which local Dutch schools and international schools using the United States system were opponents, but otherwise, according to Rozemarie de Ruiter of Leeuwarder Courant, the students did not mingle with local children often.

Curriculum Students in grades 1-5 are required to take Dutch classes. In 1989, each student, every week, had two hours of Dutch as a second language classes. The school also has English classes.

Demographics Most of the students' parents are diplomats, businesspeople, and teachers. As of 1989, many students return to Japan after the final year of junior high school.

Operations The school has had a longstanding exchange programme with the Oudvaart School in Sneek. The programme originated from the parents of one student who previously attended the Fenneport School but later transferred to JSA; they continued to have contact with their child's former school and developed contacts between the two institutions.

See also

Japanese people in the Netherlands Japanese School of Rotterdam

References

External links

The Japanese School of Amsterdam