Category: Events

Baton twirling club and Wind Ensemble perform at Saitama Festival

Yamamura Kokusai High School wind ensemble and baton twirling team participated in the 2022 Saitama High School Festival on June 8th.   Read More

Biology Club at Tama Science Festival

This is the biology department! “TAMA Science Festival in TOUYAKU 2021” (sponsored by Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences) was held online on October 31st (Sun). From the Biology Department, the research by Ms Inada, Ms Kaneko, Mr Fujino, Mr Yadakai and others was in the Standard Course, and the research by Ms Shioda Read More

Ainu Culture

The Ainu culture of Japan is long and rich. The people from Hokkaido also occupied much of the main island as can be seen in many place names. They were forcibly subdued during the Edo period and severely persecuted. Nowadays, their culture is celebrated. In 2021, Yamamura Kokusai students explore the culture as part of 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

Graduation Ceremony

We bid a fond farewell to our third year students today. The hall decked in congratulatory colours, red and white, the third years paid their last official visit to Yamamura Kokusai High School. Grateful for the mindful restraint everyone has shown in keeping the pandemic from impeding our education, we decided to go ahead with Read More

Entrance Exams

This year all precautions were taken to ensure the safety and best study conditions for the junior high school students who took the entrance examinations for Yamamura Kokusai High School. Eleven students took the English interview entrance challenge. They showed English skills and an interest in the world. Good job. Well done everyone. Choosing your Read More

Yamamura Kokusai Wind Ensemble are National Champions

Yamamura Kokusai Wind Ensemble won the All Japan National Brass band and Wind Ensemble Contest to become the new champions. This amazing feat was accomplished after year on year struggle and improvement. A great precedent of politeness, humbleness, desire to improve and unflagging perseverance in the seniors has laid years of foundation to make Yamamura 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

Visitors from France and Italy

Yamamura Kokusai is very pleased to welcome two international study students into our school. The students after postponement and a lengthy period of isolation after arriving in Japan have finally been able to join our students in classes. Their determination to travel despite prevailing conditions and maybe even the tedious quarantine conditions have ensured they Read More

Trip to Shinrinkoen Park

First year Yamamura Kokusai students took a break from study, a chance to refresh in the autumn colours of Shinrinkoen. In the middle of a year marked by restrictions and restraint, Yamamura Kokusai first year students were more than pleased to be able to enjoy a day in the fresh air, and open spaces of Read More

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