Liceo Mexicano Japonés
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Mexico City Mexico |
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| Type | Primary and secondary education |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Website | liceomexicanojapones.edu.mx |
Liceo Mexicano Japonés, A.C. (社団法人日本メキシコ学院 Shadan Hōjin Nihon Mekishiko Gakuin?, Spanish for "Mexican-Japanese Lyceum", or 日墨学院 Nichiboku Gakuin "Japan-Mexico Institute"), is a Japanese school based in the Pedregal neighborhood of the Álvaro Obregón borough in southern Mexico City, Mexico.
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.
Carlos Kasuga Osaka, who served as the director of Yakult Mexico, founded the school and served as its chair. Within any Nikkei community, it was the first transnational educational institution.
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. Chizuko Watanabe Hougen (千鶴子 ホーゲン・渡邊 ), 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."
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