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Japan School Finder helps families explore international schools, from early years through high school, and helps international learners find Japanese language schools. University degree programs are outside our current scope.
A nationwide project, with transparent coverage
Our international-school catalogue contains 231 school and campus profiles across 23 prefectures. Twelve have detailed research. Core profiles link official curriculum pages and directory-reported locations and grades. An additional 106 profiles were confirmed by the directory owner and are labelled accordingly; this is separate from independent accreditation verification.
We reviewed 244 candidate directory entries and accessed 216 official websites during this research pass. Candidate entries included duplicate divisions and programmes that required additional eligibility review. The directory owner confirmed the 108 remaining entries on 28 September 2026. They are not a count of qualifying schools. 24 entries were consolidated as duplicates, 3 were outside the selected curriculum scope. All remaining candidate entries have been processed using the owner’s confirmation; individual facts such as current fees, campus allocation and admissions availability may still need confirmation. This catalogue is not yet exhaustive.
All 47 prefectures are searchable. An empty result means we have no matching screened profile, not that the area has no international schools.
What belongs here?
Schools offering a primarily international curriculum, including international and overseas national programmes. We include early years through high school. Japanese language schools have their own search, with course-related filters. University degree programs and international streams within otherwise domestic schools are outside the international-school catalogue.
Sources you can follow
We use JCIS, International Schools Database and Japan Living Guide for discovery, then check official school websites. Each profile links its sources. International Schools Database city pages could not be reliably extracted in this pass.
A programme mentioned by a school is not independent accreditation verification. Candidate IB programmes are identified as candidates where the source states this.
Japanese language schools
Our language-school catalogue contains 875 listings. Sources include the MEXT recognized-institution directory, Nisshinkyo, JaLSA, the Japanese Language School Cooperative, the Japanese Language School Owners Association and official school websites. A current national discovery inventory is used to identify additional candidates; unresolved records are kept in the administrator research list.
Membership in an association is not proof of current government recognition or visa eligibility. Recognition is displayed only where a government source is recorded. Published language-course fees cover the stated duration and may be undated; confirm current fees and availability directly. A successful website check does not verify every fact on a page.
No false certainty
Unknown does not mean unavailable. We do not infer admissions vacancies, English support, learning support or transport from missing information. Published tuition is not the total first-year cost and may apply only to one grade.
Grade labels vary between education systems. Our broad stage filters are a starting point; the exact school grade range is always shown. Contact admissions for placement and age cutoffs.
There are no sponsored rankings or invented reviews. International-school search places more extensively researched profiles first; language schools are listed alphabetically. Shortlists are saved only in your current browser.
School imagery
The directory owner has authorized collection and publication of school imagery. 842 profiles currently have school images and 869 have school or school-network logos. Images are collected from official school websites. Captions identify shared school-network images where applicable; a website image may not show the specific campus. Where no usable image is available, we display the school logo or a neutral monogram.