| Instituto Privado Argentino-Japonés | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | Nichia Gakuin 日亜学院 | ||||||||||
| Address: | Yatay 261/Pringles 268 | ||||||||||
| Location: | Buenos Aires | ||||||||||
| Country: | Argentina | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | -34.6095°N -58.4289°W | ||||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Argentina Buenos Aires City#Argentina Buenos Aires#Argentina Greater Buenos Aires#Argentina Buenos Aires Province#Argentina | ||||||||||
| Type: | Private school | ||||||||||
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Instituto Privado Argentino-Japonés (IPAJ), also known as, 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]
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]