Escuela Japonesa de San José (サンホセ日本人学校, Sanhose Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in San Vicente, Moravia, San José Province, Costa Rica, in the Greater Metropolitan Area. It is affiliated with the Japanese Embassy in Costa Rica (Japanese: コスタリカ日本国大使館; Spanish: Embajada del Japón en Costa Rica).^[1] It is located in Residencial Los Colegios.^[2]

In 2003 it had a total of 26 students. The school has a longer school day than schools in the United States and Costa Rica.^[3]

A predecessor part-time school opened in 1967. The day school opened on October 1, 1974, and a permanent campus opened in 1976.^[4]

(in Japanese) By former staff:

• 野中 栄生 (current principal of the 船橋市立古和釜中学校; former principal of the Escuela Japonesa de San José) "サンホセ日本人学校（小規模校）における特色ある教育活動 ―― 魅力ある学校づくり・・・身近な人材の活用を通して ―― Archived 2018-07-06 at the Wayback Machine." Tokyo Gakugei University. p. 206-209.
• 小林 洋之 (Chōfu Municipal Fujimidai Elementary School (東京都調布市立富士見台小学校), formerly at the Escuela Japonesa de San José). 自分の思いや考えをもち,豊かに表現できる子の育成 : サンホセ日本人学校における作文指導の工夫(第2章教科指導). 在外教育施設における指導実践記録, Tokyo Gakugei University. 27, 13-16, 2004. See profile at CiNii.

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Escuela Japonesa de San José at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Japanese)
• Escuela Japonesa de San José at the Wayback Machine (archive index) (in Japanese)
• "私たちの学校では サンホセ日本人学校 PURA VIDA!." Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Schools (平塚市学校) network. (in Japanese)

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