Kobe Chinese School
Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan · Est. 1899
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- Students
- 589
- Established
- 1899
- Curriculum
- Japanese national curriculum plus Chinese language and culture; Chinese-Japanese-English trilingual (Grades 1–9)
About this school
Kobe Chinese School (Kobe Chuka Dobun Gakko) traces its founding to 1899, when the reformer Liang Qichao urged Kobe's overseas Chinese community to open a school for its children. Several Chinese schools in the city merged into the present school in 1939. It reopened after wartime bombing in 1946, became a school corporation approved by the Hyogo governor in 1958, and has taught in its current Nakayamate-dori building since 1959.
The school runs a nine-year integrated programme covering elementary school (Grades 1–6) and junior high (Grades 7–9). Students follow the standard Japanese curriculum together with Chinese language and culture classes and English, making the programme trilingual. Chinese starts from zero in Grade 1, and the school supports families in Japanese where needed. Graduates go on to a wide range of public and private high schools in Hyogo.
In the 2026 school year the school had 589 students; about 60% hold Japanese nationality and 39% Chinese nationality, and more than half grow up speaking Japanese at home. The teaching staff includes Chinese, Japanese and other teachers. An on-site after-school club for Grades 1–3 opened in 2025.
