This July, International School of Asia, Karuizawa (ISAK) will offer its first summer camp. Approximately 30 boys and girls from international middle schools and Japanese junior high schools will spend two weeks living and learning together in Nagano, one of Japan’s best-known summer vacation spots.
Joining them will be scholarship recipients from Nepal, Myanmar, and the Philippines; counsellors from Ivy League universities in the United States; and teachers from top private high schools in the United States and Canada.
This mix of a diverse Asia-centred student body and a North American style of discussion-based teaching is the expression of what the Foundation for ISAK hopes will become a unique school for educating a new generation of compassionate leaders — emphasising caring, a deep knowledge of Asia, and innovative problem-solving. ISAK is scheduled to open a boarding school in 2012.
The Foundation has secured a 30-year lease for land from the village of Tsumagoi in Gunma Prefecture. Edward Suzuki, the award-winning architect who designed Nishimachi and St. Mary’s, will be designing the facilities.
For middle school students, a few spots are still open for this year’s summer camp. For more information and application procedures, email [email protected].
— LISA HOSOKAWA
