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The Japanese Language Supplementary School of Houston (ヒューストン日本語補習校, Hyūsuton Nihongo Hoshūkō, JLSSH) is a supplementary Japanese school in Houston, Texas. Its classes are held at the Westchester Academy for International Studies. [1] and the school office is located in the Memorial Ashford Place office building.
The Japanese School of Dallas (ダラス補習授業校 Darasu Hoshū Jugyō Kō) is a part-time Japanese educational program for Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The school office in Dallas, and it conducts its classes at Ted Polk Middle School in Carrollton. [1] As of 2015 Munetake Yamamura ...
Crystal City Internment Camp, located near Crystal City, Texas, was a place of confinement for people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent during World War II, and has been variously described as a detention facility or a concentration camp. [2] The camp, which was originally designed to hold 3,500 people, opened in December 1943 and was ...
Bellaire High School (Texas) / 29.69111°N 95.46861°W / 29.69111; -95.46861. Bellaire High School is a comprehensive, public secondary school in Bellaire, Texas. [ 2] Part of the Houston Independent School District, it serves the incorporated city of Bellaire, the Houston community of Meyerland, and other adjacent Houston neighborhoods ...
The Japanese Language Supplementary School of Houston, a supplementary Japanese school, is located in the city. Its classes are held at the Westchester Academy for International Studies. [35] and the school office is located in the Memorial Ashford Place office building.
By 1920, the schools enrolled 98% of all Japanese American children in Hawaii. Statistics for 1934 showed 183 schools teaching a total of 41,192 students. [7] [8] [9] On the mainland, the first Japanese language school was California's Nihongo Gakuin, established in 1903; by 1912, eighteen such schools had been set up in California alone. [5]
In 1940, there were around 500 Japanese living in Texas. In response to anti-Japanese discrimination following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Jingu family which maintained the Japanese Tea Garden in San Antonio were evicted and the garden was renamed the Chinese Tea Garden. (The name was restored in 1984). [ 2]
All public school systems in Texas are administered by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). As of 2018 [update] 24 school districts serve different sections of the city of Houston. [16] The largest school district serving the city limits is the Houston Independent School District (HISD), which serves a large majority of the area within the city ...