The day school was founded on 23 April 1981, with the first campus at Osdorfer Landstraße 390/392 in Hamburg.[2]
The current building in Halstenbek, designed by Architekten R+K, was completed in 1994.[3] The school building has 3,500 square metres (38,000 sq ft) of space and includes athletic facilities. As of 2013 the school had 110 students and 13 teachers; the Japanese government sends the teachers to Germany.[4]
A couple, Jürgen and Christa Heidorn, gave an orchard to the Japanese school.[5]
The Britannica International School is being built on the site of the Japanese school.[6]
The Japanisches Institut Hamburg (ハンブルグ補習授業校 Hanburugu Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a Japanese weekend educational programme, holds its classes in the Hamburg Japanese school building.[7] It has done so since 1994.[4]
Main entrance
Japanese School
School culture
Haruo Yamashita (山下 晴夫, Yamashita Haruo, 1946-1998) created the lyrics and melody of the school song.[8]
^"Top Page." (Archive) Japanische Schule in Hamburg. Retrieved on 2 January 2014. "Japanische Schule in Hamburg e.V. Dockenhudener Chaussee 77/79 25469 Halstenbek"
^"Foundation" () (創立/Gruendung). Japanische Schule in Hamburg. February 24, 2001. Retrieved on April 24, 2016.
^ abKolarczyk, Arne. "Japaner feiern Jubiläum." Hamburger Abendblatt. 12 June 2013. Retrieved on 2 January 2016. "Dies gilt als Geburtsstunde der Japanischen Schule, die seit 1994 an der Dockenhudener Chaussee in Halstenbek ansässig ist." and "Seitdem ist die Ganztagsschule, die 110 Schüler montags bis freitags besuchen, eine offizielle Regelschule des Landes. Die 13 Lehrer schickt das dortige Bildungsministerium nach Deutschland, unterrichtet wird streng nach den japanischen Lehrplänen." and "Drei Jahre nach dem ersten Gespräch konnte der Neubau des Schulgebäudes eröffnet werden. An der Dockenhudener Chaussee steht den Schülern ein 3500 Quadratmeter großes Gelände inklusive Sportplatz und einer Sporthalle zur Verfügung."
Schools with Japan system senior high school classes are marked with asterisks (*). Weekend/supplementary schools (hoshū jugyō kō) are located in a separate template
Turkey is not included in the classification of Europe by the Japanese 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 as hoshū jugyō kō part-time schools and not as full-time schools. See the template for part-time schools.
