Seattle Japanese Language School - founded 1902

06/22/2024

08/19/2023

Seattle Japanese Language School *** Due to the in-person class teacher shortage, all of the adult classes will remain online for the 2022 spring quarter.*** 2022 Adult Spring Quarter Registration is open. (Online classes only) 3/29, 3/30, 3/31 & 4/2 - 5/31, 6/1, 6/2 & 6/4

01/22/2023

シアトル日本語学校の校長、シュー多恵子先生がシアトル地域向けの日本語新聞、 Soy Source シアトルの生活情報誌 で紹介されました！幼い頃から夢であった英語教師になるまでの道のり、地元岩国を旅立ちカリフォルニアでの暮らし、そして現在シアトル日本語学校での活躍についてお話されています繰り広げられます。貴重な独占インタビューを是非ご覧になってみてください！新聞は宇和島屋などで無料配布中です。またはソイソースのウェブサイトからオンライン記事をご覧ください。

The Seattle Japanese Language School’s principal, Taeko Shu sensei, was featured in the latest publication of Soy Source, a Japanese language newspaper for the Greater Seattle area! Read all about her long-held dream to become an English teacher, how it brought her over from Iwakuni, Japan to California, and her current work at the Seattle Japanese Language School in this exclusive interview.

08/12/2020

Hi Minna-sama.

If you have chance , please login to the Japanese Cultural & Community Center’s (JCCCW) annual fundraiser at 7pm tonight. It’s recorded and can be viewed later, but it may be fun to watch when it goes live on YouTube tonight at 7pm. https://www.youtube.com/user/JCCCWA Yours truly may or may not be on the video, but our 118 year old Japanese school (oldest in North America) will definitely be featured as one of the primary reasons for the fundraiser. “Let’s keep the school running for another 100 years~!” Please click on the link below to donate. Thank you for your support in advance.

The JCCCW mission is to build and grow a central gathering place for sharing and promoting Japanese and Japanese American culture and heritage. They strive to work towards a lively, intergenerational gathering place and destination in the Pacific Northwest, where people of all backgrounds learn Japanese language and traditional arts, celebrate Japanese and Japanese American history and culture, and build intercultural understanding.

Virtual gala on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JCCCWA

Please tune in and participate. (And share this information with others you know across the nation and in Japan!) We invite you to donate before, during or after the program by simply pressing the "Donate" button at our website: https://www.jcccw.org/tomodachi-gala

And here are some of the fun things you'll be seeing on our Virtual Tomodachi Gala program!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J3G07vZ8_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgXuqlFTiR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrfAn1-RgXo

Thank you for your continued support of the J. Questions? Please contact us

03/23/2020

Konnichiwa friends. We hope you are well. An amazing effort is being made to keep the school going during the current situation. Beginning April 1st for adult classes and April 4th for Saturday youth classes we will begin holding classes over Zoom Video Communications until further notice. Our teachers are receiving training now and will soon begin reaching out to students with links to their Zoom meetings. We are looking forward to reconnecting with our students and community albeit over the internet. This is how we will keep our 110 year old school operating for now. Let's do this together. がんばりましょう！

07/20/2019

SAVE THE DATE: 8th Annual Musical Bridge Concert. Tickets available online now. http://www.jcsseattle.org/?p=207

06/03/2019

...starting out Undokai 2019 with Radio Taiso. A fun filled day and a sign that the school year is coming to an end. Thank you to all the students, teachers, parents and volunteers that made this a great day of celebration. Arigato-gozaumasu. ありがとうございます。

10/14/2016

SCHOOL CLOSED October 15. Due to a high wind advisory forecast for Saturday, all Japanese Language lessons will be suspended on Saturday. Please call 206-568-7114 if you have questions. Please stay safe.

06/05/2016

...great day for undokai (運動会) Seattle style. Thank you to everyone who participated and thank you to the teachers and volunteers who helped to make it all happen. Thank you!! お疲れ様！

04/19/2016

Your support is very much appreciated. Thank you.

Help Kumamon provide Earthquake Relief and Recovery in Kumamoto, Japan!

Kumamon is the most popular mascot in Japan and the official mascot for Kumamoto Prefecture,which is the site of the two devastating earthquakes that took place late last week.

The Seattle Kumamoto Kenjin Kai (Prefectural Club) is calling to mobilize all fans of Kumamon and friends of Kumamoto to wear their Kumamon gear and participate in a fund raising effort to support the earthquake relief and recovery effort. The Seattle Kumamoto Kenjin Kai is partnering with Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington, Peace Winds America, and the Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival to raise funds to support the earthquake relief and recovery efforts in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The fund raising effort will take place at the Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival that will be held on Saturday,
23 April 2016 and Sunday, 24 April 2016 at the Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington. Donation boxes will be placed throughout the festival grounds manned by volunteers from the Japanese
Cultural and Community Center of Washington, Peace Winds of America, Seattle Kumamoto Kenjin Kai, and many of the other Seattle-based Japanese and Japanese American organizations.
All donations will be processed through Peace Winds America, whose Tokyo-based sister organization, Peace Winds Japan, is conducting search-and-rescue operations and is operating
evacuation shelters in Kumamoto. 100% of donations will go to immediate relief activities.

For more information about the fund raising event, please contact Karen Yosh*tomi at [email protected] or 206-568-7114 or https://jcccw.org/

02/07/2016

...Intermediate C & D shuji session today. Some definite Shodo artists are in our midst.

01/16/2016

...celebrating Oshogatsu (New Year's) with fun activities and good food. Happy New Year!