Yokohama Yamate Chinese School
Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan · Est. 1898
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- Students
- 629
- Established
- 1898
- Curriculum
- Chinese-Japanese bilingual, integrated elementary and junior high (Japanese curriculum plus Chinese)
About this school
Yokohama Yamate Chinese School traces its origins to Yokohama Datong School, which opened in February 1898 after Sun Yat-sen encouraged the local Chinese community to found a school; the site calls it the world's first modern overseas Chinese school. After a split in 1952, classes moved to temporary buildings in Yamate, and the school took its current name in 1957. It became a school corporation approved by Kanagawa Prefecture in 1966 and moved to a new building in Yoshihama-cho in 2010, when the Panda Kindergarten also opened.
The school runs an integrated nine-year programme. In the elementary years pupils focus on subjects taught in Chinese, such as Chinese, mathematics and Chinese society, alongside content matching Japanese elementary schools. In junior high the emphasis shifts to Japanese-system subjects including Japanese, mathematics, English, science and social studies. Chinese is the main campus language. Pupils use their own tablets from Grade 4.
In 2023 the school had 629 pupils (441 elementary, 188 junior high) and 59 teachers. The building includes a library, specialist rooms and a gymnasium.
