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Primary and secondary schools. Publicly run kindergartens, elementary schools (years 1 through 6), and junior high schools (7 through 9) are operated by local wards or municipal offices. Public high schools in Tokyo are run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education and are called "Metropolitan High Schools".
Attainment. Secondary diploma. 95.97% [7] Post-secondary diploma. 61.95% [6] Education in Japan is managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels, although more than 95% of the students receive higher secondary education as well.
A typical Japanese classroom. Lower-secondary schools cover grades seven, eight, and nine. Ages are 12/13-15/16 with increased focus on academic studies. Although it is possible to leave the formal education system after completing lower secondary school and find employment, fewer than 4% did so by the late 1980s.
Rikkyo Ikebukuro Junior and Senior High School. Sacred Heart School in Tokyo (Senior high school division) St. Hilda's School ( Kōran Jogakkō Junior High and Senior High School [ ja]) St. Joseph's Junior and Senior High School. St. Mary's International School (Senior high school division) Seigakuin Junior & Senior High School.
There is a system of educational television and radio, and almost all elementary schools use programs prepared by the School Education Division of Japan's ex Broadcasting Corporation (Nippon Hoso Kyokai—NHK). Daily life. Both Japanese elementary and middle schools begin around 7:50 AM, with lessons starting at 8:30 AM.
Most high schools in Japan have a numerical grading system from 5 to 1 with 5 being the highest grade and 1 being the lowest. University level. Like the high school level, Japanese students must pass a standardized test to be accepted into a university. Most national universities employ a 4-scale grading system (only with A, B, C and F).
The University of Tokyo ( 東京大学, Tōkyō daigaku, abbreviated as Tōdai (東大) in Japanese and UTokyo in English [7]) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct predecessors include the ...
Gakushūin. The Gakushūin ( 学習 院), or Gakushuin School Corporation (学校法人学習院), historically known as the Peers' School, [1] is a Japanese educational institution in Tokyo, originally established as Gakushūjo (学習所) to educate the children of Japan's nobility. [2] The original school expanded from its original mandate ...