Nairobi Japanese School

Nairobi Japanese School is a small Japanese-language school serving families from Japan who live in Nairobi. It grew from volunteer lessons held at the Embassy of Japan from 1967 and was founded as a school on 9 May 1970, first in Hurlingham. Junior high classes were approved in 1975, and the school moved to its present campus in Lang'ata, near Karen, in 1981. It teaches the Japanese school programme for primary and junior high levels, roughly Grades 1 to 9, with English lessons and exchange activities with Kenyan schools. Most pupils are children of embassy, aid agency and company staff on postings of two to three years, so classes are very small. The school follows the Japanese national curriculum, so none of the Kenyan or international curriculum labels apply.