Liceo Mexicano Japonés
Primary and secondary education school in Mexico City, Mexico / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Liceo Mexicano Japonés, A.C. (Spanish for 'Mexican-Japanese Lyceum'); Japanese: 社団法人日本メキシコ学院, romanized: Shadan Hōjin Nihon Mekishiko Gakuin, or 日墨学院, transl. Japan-Mexico Institute) is a Japanese school based in the Pedregal neighborhood of the Álvaro Obregón borough in southern Mexico City, Mexico.[1][2][3]
Liceo Mexicano Japonés | |
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Camino a Santa Teresa 1500, Álvaro Obregón, Jardines del Pedregal, 01900 Mexico | |
Coordinates | 19°18′32.7″N 99°12′43.2″W |
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Type | Primary and secondary education |
Grades | K-12 |
Website | liceomexicanojapones.edu.mx |
It is a school for Japanese Mexicans and the sons of Japanese temporary workers who are often brought to Mexico by companies like Nissan. There is also a section for Mexicans with no Japanese origin or descent, but Japanese is taught beginning in kindergarten and the system is in both languages until high school.[citation needed]
Carlos Kasuga Osaka, who served as the director of Yakult Mexico,[4] founded the school and served as its chair.[5] Within any Nikkei community, it was the first transnational educational institution.[6]
María Dolores Mónica Palma Mora, author of De tierras extrañas: un estudio sobre las inmigración en México, 1950–1990, wrote that the school is a "central institution in the life" of the Japanese Mexican group.[7] Chizuko Hōgen Watanabe (千鶴子・ホーゲン・渡邊),[8][9] the author of the master's thesis "The Japanese Immigrant Community in Mexico Its History and Present" at the California State University, Los Angeles, stated that Japanese parents chose the school because they wanted to "maintain their ethnic identity and pride, to implant a spiritual heritage that they claim is the basis for success, and to establish close ties with other Nikkei children who live in distant areas."[10][11]
As of 1983[update] many Nikkei and Japanese persons come to the school to study its management techniques and problems.[12]