Teach at Tamagawa Academy

K12 School

Private school

Internationally accredited

About Tamagawa Academy

Tamagawa Academy is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2019. The school was established in 1929 and built upon a balanced educational philosophy encapsulated in Zenjin (‘Whole person’) education.

Tamagawa Academy has been authorized as an International Baccalaureate World School since 2009 and currently offers the IB Middle Years and Diploma Programmes bilingually in English and Japanese. In addition to the IB, in 2016 the school started the Bilingual Elementary School (BLES) Program in its kindergarten and elementary school in order to prepare children for the MYP and DP.

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Japan at a glance

Country information

Capital:

Tokyo

Language:

Japanese

Population:

127,799,000 (10th)

Currency:

Yen (¥) / En (円 or 圓) (JPY)

Government:

Unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy

Major Religion(s):

Buddhism, Shinto

Climate:

Temperate

Country quick facts

More than 70% of Japan consists of mountains, including more than 200 volcanoes.

Mt. Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, is an active volcano.

A nice musk melon, similar to a cantaloupe, may sell for over $300US.

There are four different writing systems in Japan, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

Japan’s literacy rate is almost 100%.

There are around 1,500 earthquakes every year in Japan.

The first novel, The Tale of Genji, was written in 1007 by a Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.

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