Information about a model junior high school in Yokohama: Higashi-Yamada Junior High School (Tsuzuki ward) may be had at this link: www.city.yokohama.jp/se/mayor/interview/pressroom/newsletter/h16/topicse-4.html:
The school was established by the City of Yokohama “in the pursuit of becoming a “new city of advanced education” and is promoting the establishment of a distinctively unique school based on the creative ingenuity of the principal and teachers where the community as well as parents and guardians will be involved in school operations”.
Inquiries:
School Teachers’ Personnel Division, Board of Education Secretariat, City of Yokohama
Tel: 045-671-3226
More information to be had at this source:
http://www.city.yokohama.jp/me/kyoiku/sidou2/koukou/sfh/image/YSFH_English.pdf
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