My friend and I will be going when we can find time. He went here for 3 months and loved it. My other friend went for 1 year and also loved it.

http://www.yamasa.org/index.html

wow, i didn't know this school and this foundation.
it seems really nice and reliable. there are really mid of japan. between tokyo and osaka.

That sounds so cool!
I hope you can go there soon. Studying abroad is already a great experience itself and in such an environment must be great.

Cool...I'm 16 right now and when I'm 19 I'm moving to Japan I don't know where yet. I'm still researching. Somewhere not loud like the city i want someplace quiet but near the city like atleast 30min away..any help please?

All of you might be good in prgramming and such I'm trying to design Tos..YES TOYS

the place looks tight
shoot, i might go if i can study abroad

Hey, Ayane, Talim JP and Doatek, since you three are really knowledgable about Japan, do you know any other very good international schools over there? I'm hoping to study abroad for my Senior Project, and I'd LOVE to go to Japan.

Thank You!

Luminous, that isnt a bad idea
i might do the same, cept in college
afterall, japan does lead in electronics...that is the gerneral of what i wanna do in life

I would suggest going to Yamasa, you don't use english at all and they gauge how much Japanese you know.

Here's their catalog.

Can't wait until my friend and I get enough money saved up to go for either 1 year or 3 months. Knowing us it'll be 1 year.

Luminous:

Some schools or unis have agreements/exchanges with schools over here so you may want to ask at your school.

It also may depend on what you wanna study.

My school didn't have any senior project...(lucky girl!)

Many of the unis have foreign students but I don't know if they have classes in English.

Here's some High School Study in Japan sites:

http://programs2.studyabroad.com/highschool/Japan.html

I have heard of AFS but at $7,600 for a semester(!) well you can finish the sentence.

Note from Boss: As far from Chiba as possible!

May I suggest somewhere in Chiba? :)

I have been saving money for a long time to study in Japan. I don't want to study normal classes in English. If I'm going to take the time and money to study in Japan, then I only want to learn Japanese while I am there. According to Yamasa's website, they enforce native language quotas so it is harder to get in if you are a native speaker of English or Mandrain Chinese. It says that they only accept 1 in 3 applicants, and it costs $200 to apply. They also favor older students and students with a career history. Luckily I work for a company which is owned by a larger Japanese corporation. I don't know if I can get in, but I will apply sometime this week, possible later today. On the application for they ask if your studies at Yamasa will be part of an official study abroad program, so if you want to increase your chances of getting accepted you should probably get some names and contact numbers from your school, if they will approve it. It shouldn't be a problem for a college student, but I don't know about high school. They say that very few of their students are under 20. Anyway, it's not as if this is the only language school in Japan. Yamasa has the most information on their website and they seem to have the most intensive classes, but there are other places to learn Japanese. If I don't get accepted to Yamasa then I will apply to some of these schools:

http://www.murasakishikibu.co.jp/jls/

Man, this looks great. I had planned to visit Japan this summer...but that may not happen as planned, which sucks so incredibly hard.

Hey, Ayane: about how much do you predict it'll cost? And how much Japanese do you have to know to get a leg up on the classes?

up, looks like they wont take me
>.> :rofl: unless they can pty a minority
...well, another plan crushed