Horizon Japan International School opened a campus in Sendai in April 2012, a year after the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. It was easy to understand the reservations the Board of Directors had about such a project considering the devastation that occurred in the area.
Since that time, the staff at the school has been working hard to build their Early Learning Center (ELC) as well as prepare the school and programs to meet the rigorous standards that would allow the school to expand into a Primary School. While the school added to its resources and programs, it also began construction on its facilities with the vision of establishing a truly remarkable campus situated within the beautiful, green, surroundings of Sendai’s upscale Izumi Ward.
Having met the requirements and guidelines laid out by Officials in Miyagi, Horizon, in receiving Article One status, is officially allowed to proceed in developing as a Primary School, under their oversight, fulfilling the obligations of the directives of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in Japan.
The school shares a vision to educate children in Japan in a way that makes them better prepared to meet the challenges of a wider, global, group of nations that exists today. Horizon is now a part of a very small group of schools to achieve this status. The school will deliver content as an English and Japanese Immersion school, using Japanese Primary School Curriculum guidelines, where learning in subjects crosses over naturally and fluidly in both languages.
Horizon is committed to developing a school that can become a model for others to adopt as ideal in meeting the larger vision of Japan’s desire to be leader among nations within our world.
