[1] The Japanese primary and secondary school sections are in a campus located along Blue Pool Road, in Happy Valley.

[3] The Japanese secondary school was previously located in Braemar Hill, North Point.

[4] As of 2020[update] the principal of the secondary section is Osamu Kobayashi (小林 修, Kobayashi Osamu),[5] the principal of the Hong Kong Island Japanese elementary school is Yoshitaka Yamazaki (山崎秀哲, Yamazaki Yoshitaka),[6] the principal of the Tai Po Japanese elementary school is Misato Kitanaka (北中 美郷, Kitanaka Misato),[7] and the principal of the international section is Joshua Blue,[8] replacing Simon Walton, who retired in 2022.

According to Vivienne Poy, her father, Richard Charles Lee, helped facilitate the establishment of the school.

[15] Additional space in the Ling Ying Building (嶺英商場[14]) was used,[16] beginning in April 1971, for kindergarten and primary school classes.

Principal Akihiro Kaku argued that the consulate general would have been a more appropriate protest area, not the school.