Taipei Japanese School

Taipei Japanese School (TJS) is a Japanese international school located in Shilin District, Taipei. TJS was established in 1947 and mainly serves the children (up to junior high school) of Japanese expatriates in Taiwan.

Taipei Japanese School
台北日本人学校 台北市日僑學校
Location
No. 785, Section 6, Zhongshan North Road, Shilin District, Taipei City, Taiwan 111 台北市士林区中山北路6段785号 臺北市士林區中山北路六段785號 Taipei Taiwan
Information
Type	Japanese international school
Established	1947
Principal	Hirotoshi Kondo (近藤裕敏)
Enrollment	768 (as of April, 2020)
Website	www.tjs.tp.edu.tw

Taipei Japanese School
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	台北市日僑學校
Simplified Chinese	台北市日侨学校
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Táiběishì Rìqiáo Xuéxiào
Japanese name
Kanji	台北日本人学校
Transcriptions Romanization Taibei Nihonjin Gakkō

The former TJS campus as seen from Taipei American School

Traditionally, TJS students have returned to Japan to commence their high school education, while a minority choose to attend Taipei American School, which is located across the street. Among the TJS students who chose the latter option was Taiwanese-Japanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro.^{[citation needed]} TJS moved to its current location in Tianmu in 1983.^{[1][page needed]}

With the departure of many Japanese expatriate families from Taiwan during the 1990s,^{[citation needed]} TJS saw its enrollment decline significantly between 1990 and 2010.^[2] However, enrollment began to bounce back by the 2010s.^{[citation needed]}

Notable alumni

• Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor
• Yuriko Ishida, actress
• Hikari Ishida, actress
• Asei Kobayashi, composer

See also

• Taiwan portal
• Japan portal
• Schools portal

Republic of China-aligned Chinese international schools in Japan:

• Osaka Chinese School
• Tokyo Chinese School
• Yokohama Overseas Chinese School