Principal Detlef Fechner Phone +81 45-941-4841 | Website www.dsty.ac.jp Founded 20 September 1904 | |
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Type Private, co-educational Opened 20 September 1904 (1904-09-20) Grades Kindergarten - 12th grade Address 2 Chome-4-1 Chigasakiminami, Tsuzuki Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Similar Horizon Japan Internatio, 桐蔭学園, St Mary's Internatio School, Seisen Internatio School, Yokohama Internatio School | ||
The German School of Tokyo Yokohama (東京横浜独逸学園, Tōkyō Yokohama Doitsu Gakuen) (German: Deutsche Schule Tokyo Yokohama - DSTY) is an officially approved German school in Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama, Japan.
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Overview
The school includes a kindergarten, a primary school, a middle school (Orientierungsstufe) and a secondary school, which ends with the Abitur graduation exam with the option to enter the university. Other possible graduations are available excluding the possibility to go to university. These are the technical secondary school certificate (Fachoberschulabschluss), the secondary school certificate (Realschulabschluss) and the secondary modern school qualification (Hauptschulabschluss). Classes are held in German. For foreign languages English, Japanese, French, Latin and Spanish (as a school club) are available.
The closest subway station is Nakamachidai Station (10 minutes by foot).
History
The German School of Tokyo Yokohama was established in 1904 in Yokohama. After the 1923 Kanto Earthquake many German families moved from Yokohama to Tokyo. The school opened its new building in Ōmori, Ōta, Tokyo, in 1934. The building suffered little damage during World War II, but was requisitioned by the American military government as enemy property following Germany's capitulation in May 1945, so school activity came to a standstill. American authorities returned the school's impounded property in 1951 and school activity finally could restart on December 1, 1953, with 17 students in total. In 1960 the first graduation students received their certificates.
At the time the school campus was in Ota, Tokyo. On November 27, 1967, the school's old building was replaced with a modern structure. After 1970 the student numbers rose so fast that there was not enough space. It was decided to build a new, more spacious school building in Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama. The school's activities started there in September 1991 with 450 students. A fourth floor was added in 2010.