Kobe Chinese School

The Kobe Chinese School is composed of a primary department and a junior department. Totally, 620 students are in program, including 392 in the primary department and 228 in the junior department. It is the largest Chinese School in Japan and the largest full time overseas Chinese School in the world.

In 1999, Kobe Chinese School celebrated its 100th birthday. A hundred years ago, Liang qichao, in exile in Japan, learning from the lesson drawn from the failure of Qing Dynasty in the war with Japan, called on overseas Chinese to give their strong support to education. The next year, March the 1st, Kobe Chinese School was founded at the suggestion of Huaqiao from Canton, and had Tuyoshi Inukai as its first honorable president. In 1914, the Kobe Huaqiang School was founded by Guangdong Huaqiao. And in 1919, the Chinese School was founded by Huaqiao from Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei but not Guangdong. It is different to the Kobe Chinese School and the Kobe Huaqiang School in teaching the standard language of Chinese. The Kobe Huaqiang School and the Chinese School both used dialectics in teaching and were integrated to Hansin Chinese Gongxue in 1928, which were later united with Kobe Chinese Tongwen school in 1939 to establish Kobe Chinese School and began to teach in standard language of Chinese as a common language.

Presently, the nationalities of students are: Kajin who have the Japan nationality in 40% , and others such as Korean, Vietnamese, American, English, Thailand, Portuguese, Canadian, Indonesian. There are also some pure-blooded Japanese and 5 native Korean. With such an international diversity, the school emphasizes on melting into Japanese society and strengthening national pride at the same time. According to President Jin, the significance of national pride is the same to all the students, that is, Chinese students should be proud of being Chinese and Japanese students be proud of being Japanese. The ability of cooperation with and consideration for people from different countries are highly deemed. Students are also expected to be active contributor to friendship between China and Japan.
Courses are set followed these principles:

1. Nine years continuous education, ranging from the primary to the junior education, is carried on in the language of Chinese.

2. In the primary department, the textbook for the language of Japanese are the same shared by Japanese schools. Other textbooks are all written in Chinese (textbook for mathematics is translated from the Japanese textbook. Others such as Social Science use Chinese teaching materials, with the Japanese textbook as reference.)

3. In the Secondary Department, Japanese textbooks are adopted except for courses such as Language of Chinese, Geography of China and History of China. But courses are all given in Chinese and students kept their notes in Japanese.

4. Textbook for Language of Chinese, Geography of China and History of China are edited by the faculty on its own.

5. Training of skills also bears national characters. For example, Chinese local music, making of dumpling.

In the educational circles of Hyougo,Osaka, Kobe Chinese School is so well known for its high admission proportion to famous private and public senior school, that Kobe News remarked in May the 26th, 1999, on the 8th layout, that Kobe Chinese School is recognized as a famous nine-year continuous education school etc..And In the institution aspect, Hyougo prefecture and Osaka prefecture treat them as the same with compulsory education schools in Japan.
In consideration of gaining admission to senior schools, it is as good as Japanese schools.

	Kobe Chinese School The Kobe Chinese School is composed of a primary department and a junior department. Totally, 620 students are in program, including 392 in the primary department and 228 in the junior department. It is the largest Chinese School in Japan and the largest full time overseas Chinese School in the world. In 1999, Kobe Chinese School celebrated its 100th birthday. A hundred years ago, Liang qichao, in exile in Japan, learning from the lesson drawn from the failure of Qing Dynasty in the war with Japan, called on overseas Chinese to give their strong support to education. The next year, March the 1st, Kobe Chinese School was founded at the suggestion of Huaqiao from Canton, and had Tuyoshi Inukai as its first honorable president. In 1914, the Kobe Huaqiang School was founded by Guangdong Huaqiao. And in 1919, the Chinese School was founded by Huaqiao from Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei but not Guangdong. It is different to the Kobe Chinese School and the Kobe Huaqiang School in teaching the standard language of Chinese. The Kobe Huaqiang School and the Chinese School both used dialectics in teaching and were integrated to Hansin Chinese Gongxue in 1928, which were later united with Kobe Chinese Tongwen school in 1939 to establish Kobe Chinese School and began to teach in standard language of Chinese as a common language. Presently, the nationalities of students are: Kajin who have the Japan nationality in 40% , and others such as Korean, Vietnamese, American, English, Thailand, Portuguese, Canadian, Indonesian. There are also some pure-blooded Japanese and 5 native Korean. With such an international diversity, the school emphasizes on melting into Japanese society and strengthening national pride at the same time. According to President Jin, the significance of national pride is the same to all the students, that is, Chinese students should be proud of being Chinese and Japanese students be proud of being Japanese. The ability of cooperation with and consideration for people from different countries are highly deemed. Students are also expected to be active contributor to friendship between China and Japan. Courses are set followed these principles: 1. Nine years continuous education, ranging from the primary to the junior education, is carried on in the language of Chinese. 2. In the primary department, the textbook for the language of Japanese are the same shared by Japanese schools. Other textbooks are all written in Chinese (textbook for mathematics is translated from the Japanese textbook. Others such as Social Science use Chinese teaching materials, with the Japanese textbook as reference.) 3. In the Secondary Department, Japanese textbooks are adopted except for courses such as Language of Chinese, Geography of China and History of China. But courses are all given in Chinese and students kept their notes in Japanese. 4. Textbook for Language of Chinese, Geography of China and History of China are edited by the faculty on its own. 5. Training of skills also bears national characters. For example, Chinese local music, making of dumpling. In the educational circles of Hyougo,Osaka, Kobe Chinese School is so well known for its high admission proportion to famous private and public senior school, that Kobe News remarked in May the 26th, 1999, on the 8th layout, that Kobe Chinese School is recognized as a famous nine-year continuous education school etc..And In the institution aspect, Hyougo prefecture and Osaka prefecture treat them as the same with compulsory education schools in Japan. In consideration of gaining admission to senior schools, it is as good as Japanese schools. (To the next page) (To the top page of this report) (To top of this corner)