San Francisco Japanese School

The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS, San Furanshisuko Nihongo Hoshū Kō (サンフランシスコ日本語補習校)) is a weekend Japanese school as well as a two week summer school serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

The system, with its administrative offices in San Francisco,[1] is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,[1] and was the world's second largest overseas Japanese weekend school in 2006.

[1] The SFJS rents classrooms in four schools serving a total of over 1,600 students as of 2016.

[1] The school previously had the English name San Francisco Japanese Language Class, Inc (SFJLC),[3] and it previously held junior high and high school-level classes at Hyde Junior High School in Cupertino while its elementary level classes were out of Kennedy Middle.

The economic decline of Japan and the reduction in overseas corporate postings was the cause of the latter condition.