TheShanghai Japanese School (SJS) is aJapanese international school serving primary and junior high school levels inShanghai. It has two campuses, one inHongqiao and one inPudong. The school's teachers are Japanese citizens.[1] The school also has a senior high school component.
As of 2020[update] the principal of the Pudong campus is Naoto Sashida(?) (佐次田 直人,Sashida Naoto)(?),[2] and the principal of the Hongqiao campus is Kenji Fujihara (藤原 鎌次,Fujihara Kenji).[3]
In April 1987, the school was founded asThe Japanese Government General Consulate of Shanghai, Shanghai Japanese School.[1] The school has since changed its name to the currentShanghai Japanese School.
ThePudong campus (Japanese and Traditional Chinese: 浦東校, Simplified Chinese: 浦东校, Hepburn: Hotō/Pūton Kō, Pinyin: Pǔdōng Xiào),[5] with 4,643 square metres (49,980 sq ft) of space, has 71 teachers and serves 1,079 students in the elementary and junior high school levels.[1] TheHongqiao campus (Japanese and Traditional Chinese: 虹橋校, Simplified Chinese: 虹桥校, Hepburn: Honchao Kō, Pinyin: Hóngqiáo Xiào) inMinhang District,[6] with 8,727 square metres (93,940 sq ft) of space, has 61 teachers and 1,340 students in elementary school.[1] The SJS Senior High School is located on the Pudong campus.[7]
Schools with Japan system senior high school classes are marked with asterisks (*). Weekend/supplementary schools (hoshū jugyō kō) are located in aseparate template
Turkey isnot included in the classification of Europe by theJapanese Ministry of Education (MEXT). Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and usually only include, within the Japanese system, primary and junior high school levels.Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools. MEXT categorizes Japanese sections of European international schools ashoshū jugyō kō part-time schools and not as full-time schools.See the template for part-time schools.
