Category: English

Happy Halloween

On Tuesday, October 29th, the English Club celebrated Halloween by making Jack O`Lanterns and playing a Halloween quiz game. It was the first time for the students to carve their own pumpkins. They enjoyed the experience very much. Read More

72nd Saitosai

This weekend, September 7th and 8th 10:00am-2:00pm, will be Yamamurakokusai`s 72nd Annual Cultural Festival, Saitosai. This year`s theme is “Banbahonto”, meaning there is an extremely prosperous momentum. Schedule for the gym performances Saturday Sunday 10:10-10:40 Light Music Club 10:10-10:20 English Club 10:45-10:55 Yosakoi 10:25-10:35 Chorus 11:00-11:15 Baton Twirling 10:40-10:50 Yosakoi 11:50-12:20 Dance 10:55-11:10 Baton Twirling Read More

Studying English in Canada 2024 (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada)

In mid-August six of our students had a unique opportunity to study and experience a homestay in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada for a week. Abbotsford is a culturally diverse city of over 150,000 people located in the southeast portion of British Columbia tucked away in the Fraser Valley only ten minutes away from the US Read More

Yamamura Kokusai Open Campus

On July 7, 2024, Yamamura Kokusai will hold an open campus for current third year junior high school students. Students will have an opportunity to try different classes from 9:00-12:45. Available classes: Strategies for passing the entrance exam (Math, Japanese, English), Fun with Roots (Math), Extracting DNA from Broccoli, Make Healthy Nikuman, Learning strategy for Read More

Q&A with our Resident Exchange Student

For those interested in coming to school in Japan, I interviewed our current exchange student on his life here in Japan. He came to Japan in August 2023 and will leave July 2024 Q: What made you want to study abroad in Japan? A: My mom was an exchange student when she was my age Read More

British Hills Experience – Christmas 2023

23 of our students brought in the holiday season over 3 days (December 26th ~ 28th) at our annual English language study excursion to British Hills, Japan’s leading English immersion village in the snow-laden mountains of southern Fukushima. In a setting designed to evoke the feeling of visiting the UK, students participated in a wide Read More

British Hills

British Hills

Christmas sends Yamamura Kokusai students to British Hills for the real experience… snow! British Hills is a replica village built atop of a mountain in Fukushima. Owned by the Kanda Group, it is designed using British architecture and furniture with stone buildings and half-timbered lodgings, tables, chairs, wardrobes, chandeliers, even snooker tables brought from Britain Read More

School Festival

Yamamura Kokusai School Festival 2022

The School Festival is BACK! Yamamura Kokusai High School relaunched the school festival this year! Guests, parents, and junior high school students were invited over two days to taste the vivid flavors of Yamamura Kokusai. With no food on sale, students outdid themselves to entertain the visitors. Culture events, such as tea ceremony, flower arranging Read More

School Festival

Yamamura Kokusai High School held its school festival (bunkasai or culture festival)! The students’ power and teachers’ support made the festival possible and a great success this year. Calligraphy club, wind ensemble, yosakoi troup, pop band, baton twirling team and dance teams performed live in the gym, relayed to classroom screens for safe viewing. Pre Read More

Speech and Recitation Contest

The speech and recitation contest came under attack amongst safety concerns this year. The Japanese Debate was called off, but with a record number of students interested, the speech and recitation contests went ahead. This year 13 students applied for the speech contest and 15 for the recitation. Rehersals took place in empty classrooms or Read More

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