Japanese School of Rotterdam
Japanese international school in Netherlands
The Japanese School of Rotterdam (Dutch: De Japanse School van Rotterdam, Japanese: ロッテルダム日本人学校 Rotterudamu Nihonjin Gakkō) is a Japanese international school in Hillegersberg, Rotterdam.
The Hague-Rotterdam Japanese Saturday School (ハーグ・ロッテルダム日本語補習授業校 Hāgu Rotterudamu Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a Japanese Saturday school formed in 1996 by the merger of existing Saturday schools in The Hague and Rotterdam, holds its classes at the Rotterdam Japanese day school. The Saturday school rents from the day school and has done so since 2003.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16976256. Authority coordinates are 51.964, 4.503. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 2003.
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