San Francisco Japanese School

San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS) is one of the largest extra curricular Japanese schools supported by the Japanese government outside of Japan. Over 1,700 children living in the greater San Francisco Bay Area attend our classes. The classes are held 46 days throughout the year; 36 Saturdays and 10 during a focused two week session in the summer. SFJS was founded in 1968 by the Japanese community in the Bay Area. The purpose of SFJS is to provide Japanese academic curricula in the Japanese language compatible with both local requirements and the standard educational curricula in Japan, to help children develop sufficient knowledge and abilities that would allow them to successfully transfer to a school in Japan, if their family circumstances dictated such transfer, and grow into active players in the international society. The Japanese government supports SFJS by sending three teachers (Principal and two Vice-Principals) on expat-assignments from the Japanese public school syst...