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Instituto Privado Argentino-Japonés
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Instituto Privado Argentino-Japonés (IPAJ), also known as Nichia Gakuin (日亜学院), is a bilingual Spanish-Japanese elementary and middle school in Buenos Aires. It is the only school permitted by the Argentine Ministry of Education to require students to take Japanese,[1] and it is the only bilingual Spanish-Japanese school in Buenos Aires.[2] Its campus is located at Yatay 261 and Pringles 268 (two addresses for the same building) in the Almagro neighbourhood.[3]
Ricardo Braginski of Clarín wrote that the school represented the community of Japanese descent in Buenos Aires.[4]
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The origins date from 1922.[2] The Nichia Gakuin school began offering courses in 1927 and the bilingual day school was first established in 1938. Its initial location was Patagones 84.[5] Argentine authorities closed the school in January 1945 upon the Argentine government declaring war against Japan as part of World War II.[6] It reopened in 1947 and took the formal name "Instituto Privado Argentino-Japonés" in 1978. It moved to its current Yatay campus in 1984.[5]
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