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What is it like to study in Japan?
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I'm quite curious about Japan's education system. What month do they start their school year and when will it end? What grade level is the English subject being taught? What school activities do they have? ======================================================== |
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on 2005-02-27 13:38:52 |
This website will give you all the details about the school year. English is taught from 6th or 7th grade i think. They have lots of activities, what you would expect from a school in any country. 
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hello, Sei. -japanese children starts to go to elementary school at 6 years old and finish at 6th grade(at the age of 12) and then go to junior high school for 3 years. elementary school and junior high school is the compulsory education in japan. then they go on to high school for usually 3 years. -their school year usually starts in April and ends in march. they have 3 semesters a year. -they have summer vacation for one and half months in July-August, two weeks winter holiday around Xmas and new year, and two weeks spring holiday during March-April. -they starts to learn English at first grade in junior high school, which means 7th grade, at the age of 13. -the first English text book starts with the sentences like "Hi, Mike!" "Hi, Ken" "How are you?" things. :) Hope it helps somehow. ;) cue |
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by ParaParaJMo
on 2005-03-17 08:52:08
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I studied abroad in Japan for summer school back in 2001 so I can probably give some information myself. Some places are now starting English in earlier grades. I have a lot of friends who are now English teachers in Japan and some of them work in pre-schools, kindergartens, or teach at elementary schools. My host mother is an elementary school teacher and they started teaching English in her classes already. They mostly taught basic words like animals and objects, but not structured sentences or anything like that. What's interesting at the high school I went to, they mostly encouraged you to write in cursive, and I haven't written in cursive since third grade (with the excemption of my signature, other than that, I forgot). Anyway when I went, they still had the Saturday schools (mostly on like the first and last Saturday fo the month where I lived in in the Hiroshima prefecture). I know as of 2002, they stopped doing that in general. My brother-in-law's best friend who is Japanese is personally against it. When I was there we had the sports day where the classes go against each other. You could either do soccer, baseball, basketball, or volley ball. I think volley ball was all the girls could do sadly. Anyway, I played baseball and we got 4th place. The class I was in was 3rd year and group 4 (ala Onizuka Eikichi's class in the GTO anime). A lot of the exchange students I went with went to really strict schools. Like the girls could not wear loose socks, not even have pierced body parts, could not go to karaoke bars or any crap like that. My schools was pretty laid back.
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by riffscreamer
on 2005-03-27 19:03:21
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How many levels do they have? They have Junior High and other stuff right? How many years do they spend in school? |
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| The better to know is ro experience it yourself... its interesting... |
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by riffscreamer
on 2005-03-31 22:17:25
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| Do you guys know any exchange student program I can apply to to become an exchange student in Japan? |
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| try asking the Japanese Embassy in your country... you could get some info.. like I did... |
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by riffscreamer
on 2005-04-04 02:34:05
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| Thanks. |
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by ParaParaJMo
on 2005-04-10 08:31:44
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I went to Japan through Youth for Understading (www.yfu.org). They have grades 1-6, 1-3 in Junior High, and 1-3 in high school. High school is actually optional in Japan but people go anyway.
If Guns Kill People Then Pencils Mispell Words
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| in japan you will experience girls in mini skirts... well thats one, and others well, being bullied, raped by seniors and school allowance is cheap. there's nothing you can expect from japan campus life. my life became miserable for the past 11 years though. |
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| Wow, you got some pretty powerful word to disencourage someone to go study in Japan.. |
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School in Asia is cool. Especially lunchtime. No formal cafeteria, just have lunch inside the classrooms. Students'll be dragging the desks everywhere, to sit next to their best buddies. The worst thing is the stupid cleaning duties. I swept the stairs, with my friend sand sister. ANd if you didnt do the job right, if the moniter found one speck of dust, you'd be yelled at. >_<  |
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hey parapara that site you gave me, you did that one? at what age/school? im 19 now, freshman in college. How much did you end up spending/where did you study. How long 1 semester? full year?? all the credits transfer? I ask this because my school has a study abroad program that i'm applying for but I wonder if this 3rd party one is cheaper. Can you apply financail aid towards it? because you can with my schools and i think that's what will make it cheaper. anywho if you can get in contact with me and let me know that would be appreciated. aol instant messenger: lowtcp yahoo e-mail: shor_t_2006@yahoo.com thank yas.
If you are japanese you must speak to me for I am always trying to learn new things!
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by ParaParaJMo
on 2005-04-19 22:05:14
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YFU is only for high school. I did it when in the summer between my junior and senior year of high school
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by shio rocks
on 2005-04-21 04:38:07
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Firemiste, it's not true for the whole of asia. Singapore's totally different from what you described, except for cleaniness duty. That's kinda similar, except we clean classrooms. Anyway, I'm getting off topic. School in Japan sounds cool. Really interested, but my parents are very against the very thought of schooling in Japan. But maybe my school band might be going to Japan again on exchange programme. Yay. Missed the last one, but it sounded like a lot of fun... 
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>>in japan you will experience girls in mini skirts... well thats one, and others well, being bullied, raped by seniors and school allowance is cheap. there's nothing you can expect from japan campus life. my life became miserable for the past 11 years though. ah. yeah, it happens. except that, in my case, it didn't happen in japan or anywhere near it. i guess it depends on the timing and what type of people you've met. y'know. >>School in Asia is cool. of course schools in asia are cool. ^o^ some schools have lunchbreaks as long as 2 hours, like those in Taiwan. some students in schools, as firemiste has mentioned, have lunch inside classrooms. but again, in my case, we didn't have lunch inside classrooms because there's no formal cafeteria. we did it because we only had HALF-an-hour (sometimes none due to cleaning duties/prefect duties/class rep duties)lunchbreaks and there's no way we could finish our meals by the time we manage to reach the canteen or whatever. and partly because we wanted to finish our homework during lunchtime so that we could attend tuition classes after school.
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