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Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School, an example of a *shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu*

Zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (在外教育施設 'Overseas educational institution'), or in English, Japanese international school or overseas Japanese school, may refer to one of three types of institutions officially classified by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT or Monbushō):^[1]

Nihonjin gakkō (日本人学校), a full-time school outside Japan for the native speakers of Japanese which provides elementary and junior high school levels (with one in Shanghai also having a Japan-system senior high school). Accredited by MEXT.
Hoshū jugyō kō (補習授業校) or Hoshūkō (補習校), a supplementary school outside Japan. It offers a part of Nihonjin gakkō's curriculum after school hours or on weekends. Accredited by MEXT.
Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (私立在外教育施設 'private overseas educational institution'), a full-time overseas campus of a Japanese private school, thus run by a Japan-based private school corporation. They may include primary school, junior high school, and/or senior high school components.^[1] Each one is accredited by Japan's MEXT.

References

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^ ^a ^b Mizukami, Tetsuo. The sojourner community [electronic resource]: Japanese migration and residency in Australia. BRILL, 2007. ISBN 9004154795, 9789004154797. p. 136.

Overseas Japanese day and boarding schools

Schools with Japan system senior high school classes are marked with asterisks (*). Weekend/supplementary schools (hoshū jugyō kō) are located in a separate template

Nihonjin gakkō

Africa	Cairo Johannesburg Nairobi
Australia	Melbourne Perth Sydney
East, South, and Southeast Asia	Bandung Bangkok Beijing Busan Colombo Dalian Dhaka Guangzhou Hangzhou Hanoi Hong Kong Ho Chi Minh City Islamabad Jakarta Johor Kaohsiung Karachi Kota Kinabalu Kuala Lumpur Manila Mumbai New Delhi Penang Phnom Penh Qingdao Seoul Shanghai (*) Shenzhen Singapore Sriracha, Thailand Surabaya Suzhou Taichung Taipei Tianjin Yangon
Europe	Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Brussels Bucharest Budapest Düsseldorf Frankfurt Hamburg London Madrid Milan Moscow Munich Paris Prague Rome Rotterdam Vienna Warsaw Zurich
Middle East	Abu Dhabi Doha Dubai Istanbul Jeddah Riyadh Tehran
Mexico and Central America	Aguascalientes Guatemala Mexico City Panama City San José
South America	Asunción Bogotá Buenos Aires Caracas Lima Manaus Rio de Janeiro Santiago (JA) São Paulo
United States	Chicago Greenwich (New York area) Guam New Jersey (New York area)

Shiritsu zaigai
kyōiku shisetsu

Unapproved by MEXT

Closed

Closed nihonjin gakkō	Algiers Athens Baghdad Bahrain Beirut Belém Belgrade Belo Horizonte Calcutta (Kolkata) Las Palmas Kuwait Lagos Medan Quito Vitória
Closed Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu	Gyosei International School UK () Josuikan Bangkok Int'l School () Lycée Konan () Lycée Seijo () Seigakuin Atlanta Shi-Tennoji School in UK () South Queensland Academy () Sundai Ireland () Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School () Toin Gakuen Schule () Tokai University Boarding School ()
Closed unapproved schools	International Bilingual School

Turkey is not included in the classification of Europe by the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT).
Nihonjin gakkō are day schools operated by Japanese associations and usually only include, within the Japanese system, primary and junior high school levels. Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu are overseas branches of Japanese schools; these are boarding and day schools.
MEXT categorizes Japanese sections of European international schools as hoshū jugyō kō part-time schools and not as full-time schools. See the template for part-time schools.

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