Lycée Seijo
| Lycée Seijo アルザス成城学園 |
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 Lycée Seijo
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8, route d'Ammerschwihr, 68240 KIENTZHEIM, FRANCE Kientzheim France |
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: 48°07′52″N 7°17′16″E / 48.1310°N 7.2876989°E |
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| Type | Private high school |
| Website | perso.calixo.net/~lycee-seijo/ |
The Lycée Seijo d'Alsace (アルザス成城学園 Aruzasu Seijō Gakuen) was a Japanese boarding high school in Kientzheim (now a part of Kaysersberg-Vignoble), Haut-Rhin, in the Alsace region of France, near Colmar. It was operated by Seijo Gakuen, an educational society affiliated with Seijo University, and therefore was an overseas branch of a Japanese private school, or a Shiritsu zaigai kyoiku shisetsu ().
In the 1980s officials in the Alsace region sent an invitation for a Japanese school to establish itself there as a way of attracting Japanese companies to establish operations in the region. The director of the Alsace Development Agency, Andre Klein, received contacts from several Japanese educational institutions after he had asked a Nihon Keizai Shimbun reporter to write an article about a possible site for an overseas Japanese boarding school: a former convent in Kientzheim. Seijo Gakuen, the organization controlling Seijo University, accepted the offer. It wanted to establish a Japanese school in 1987 to celebrate its 70th anniversary. In 1984 negotiations to establish the school finished successfully.
The school opened in April 1986. The first principal was Jokichi Moroga. After the school opened Sony decided to open a factory in Alsace. Other Japanese companies including Ricoh followed.
In 1990 and 1991 the school had 180 students in grades 7 through 12. The school's enrollment declined due to a declining Japanese birthrate and a decreased economic presence of Japanese companies in France, due to the recession in Japan. On Friday February 11, 2005 the school held its final graduation ceremony, with 13 students graduating. In the school's history a total of 556 students had graduated. The European Centre for Japanese Studies in Alsace (French: Centre européen d'études japonaises, CEEJA, Japanese: アルザス・欧州日本学研究所 Aruzasu Ōshū Nihongaku Kenkyūsho) opened at the site of the former school.
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