[5] In 1962 several Japanese businesspersons established the weekend school with five teachers,[2] and initially there were 36 students.
The goal is to have students easily adapt to the Japanese curriculum once they return to their home country.
80% of the total number of students will return to Japan before the final year of senior high school.
[9] As of 1988 the regular student turnover rate at the weekend school was about 25% as many students who are children of businesspersons have to leave the New York City area prior to the end of the Japanese school year due to changes in their parents' employment statuses.
That year Japanese government assigned eight of them to the JWSNY;[6] their job was to train the local teachers who directly give instruction.