Taipei Japanese School
Shilin District, Taipei City, Taiwan · Est. 1947
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- Students
- 728
- Established
- 1947
- Curriculum
- Japanese national curriculum (elementary and junior high)
About this school
Taipei Japanese School is one of the largest Japanese overseas schools in the world and reaches its 80th year in 2026. It became a school attached to the Japanese embassy in 1965 and is now run by the Japanese residents' association in Taiwan, licensed by the Taipei City education department as a private school for Japanese nationals. It has been in the Tianmu area of Shilin District since 1983, and lessons moved into a new school building in 2021.
The school teaches the Japanese national curriculum in Japanese. In April 2026 it had 551 elementary and 177 junior high pupils, 728 in total, across 26 classes including a special support class, with 68 staff. English and Chinese are taught in small-group language rooms from Grade 1, and pupils take part in exchanges with Taiwanese schools, tea ceremony and Japanese cultural events.
The new building is designed around active learning:
- A central media centre with research corners
- Active-learning rooms, open spaces and multi-purpose studios
- A bouldering wall and a Japanese-style room with a tea room
- Wi-Fi throughout, projectors in every classroom and face-recognition entry
