Lycée Konan de Touraine-France

The Lycée Konan de Touraine-France (フランス甲南学園トゥレーヌ^?, Furansu Kōnan Gakuen Turēnu), previously the Lycée-Collège Konan de Touraine (トゥレーヌ甲南学園高等部・中等部^?, Turēnu Kōnan Gakuen Kōtōbu Chūtōbu), was a Japanese international high school located in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France, near Tours.

The school, in the Bechellerie neighbourhood, was dependent on the Konan Foundation (甲南学園 Konan Gakuen), which operates Konan University, and therefore was an overseas branch of a Japanese private school, or a Shiritsu zaigai kyoiku shisetsu (). The school, which had both junior high school and senior high school departments, had over 600 students. The 5,000-square-metre (54,000 sq ft) school building was located on a 12,000-square-metre (130,000 sq ft) plot of land. The school also maintained a 800-square-metre (8,600 sq ft) dojo.

During the school's existence, some students were from Japanese families living in Paris. At the time of closing the school's director was Osamu Yokoyama (横山 理 Yokoyama Osamu). As of 2012 the school's operating budget exceeded 3 million euros annually.

The school opened in 1991. Yokoyama said that the school was created to accommodate children of Japanese business executives stationed in Europe. Yokoyama said that the president of the Konan Foundation chose to station the school in France because he wanted to give the students the dream as taught by Descartes and because he was a Francophile. As of 1991 the school had 240 Japanese students. In its English classes and extracurricular classes such as music and sports, the school also served 320 French students, and the Japanese and French students intermingled in these special classes.

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