Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School
Essential Points of Application forAdmission in April 2024
for Foreign Students Living in Tokyo
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Application
25 foreign students living in Tokyo will be admitted in April.

２Qualifications
The applicant must- be born before April 2, 2009.
- live in Tokyo with *guardians and not be enrolled at any high school or college at the timeof making application to this school.
- be registered as a foreign national.
- continue to reside in and commute from an address inside Tokyo after admission to thisschool.
- satisfy one of the three following requirements.
*Guardians are those who exercise parental authority over an applicant, therefore,
basically his or her parents.
*In case the applicant isn’t able to live with both parents, he/she is allowed to live with oneof them if certified.
(a) The applicant must complete a 9-year course of school education abroad by the end ofMarch, 2024.
(b) The applicant must complete a 9-year course at an educational facility for foreign
residents in Japan which is equivalent to a 9-year course of Japanese compulsory
education by the end of March 2024.
(c) The applicant must complete a 9-year course of school education in Japan.
And the entry date must be within three years as of April 1st, 2024.
But those whose entry date is after March 1st 2021 are exceptionally certified as having
been in Japan within three years. Because month of March can be considered astransitional period.
*If you have passed the entrance examination of Takenodai High School, Tagara HighSchool, Minami-katsusika High School, Fuchu-nishi High School, Asuka High School,Rokugo Koka High School or Suginami Sogo High School, you cannot apply to KokusaiHigh School.

3Application Submission(a) TimeThursday February 8th, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Friday February 9th, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Online applications will not be conducted, so all the documents required for applicationmust be submitted in paper and brought to Kokusai Hight School in person.
(b) Place
Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School(The application should be delivered to the school office by hand.)- 1 -(c) Required Form and Procedures(1) The official Application Form （「様式国際在京１」）(2) The certificate of the academic record of the applicant’s last school yearThis (These) document (s) should be certified original (s) kept in a sealed envelope.
(This (These) document (s) must contain a certification that the applicant has
satisfactorily completed a 9-year course of school education.)・Those who have completed or will complete their 9-year education abroad or at an
educational facility for foreign residents in Japan: the certificate of the academic recordof their last school.
In addition, the official document to certify the date of the completion of their 9-year
education.
・Those who are enrolled at or graduated from a junior high school in Japan:
the certificate of the academic record of their Japanese junior high school.
(3) “Juminhyo kisaijiko shomeisho（様式応３）” of the applicant and the parent(s) issued
by a municipal office in the applicant’s residential area, or the equivalent.
(4) The form of the entry date
The applicant qualified by 2(c) is required to submit the form in which the date of entry
into Japan is recorded.
(5) “Riyusho（様式応７）”
If one of the parents will not be able to live with the applicant in Tokyo, submit“Riyusho” (The statement of the reason) with some documents to certify the reason.
(6) The applicant’s Personal History
Please refer to the example supplied.
(7) Documents required for application eligibility inspection (Applicable person only)(8) “Kikokutounikansuru Moushitatesho（様式応５）”Applicants who are living overseas and will move to Tokyo with their parents are
required to submit this form.
(9) Extra forms are required from applicants who- live outside Tokyo in Japan now but are certain to be living in Tokyo by the date of
the entrance ceremony.
- live in Tokyo but attend a school outside of Tokyo.
Please ask for these forms at the school office.
(10)Entrance Examination Fee
Applicants are required to pay ¥2,200 to the specified banks or post offices as listedon the back of the payment form put in this booklet.
Receipt of the fee has to be attached to the back of the Application Form and be
shown at the time of the application.
(11) Those who prefer examination question sheets with hiragana printed above each kanji
should submit the special arrangement request form（様式 30）supplied in this booklet.
The name of your junior high school principal and the official seal of the school are notnecessary for applicants who do not attend or have not graduated from a junior highschool in Tokyo.
※ No corrections can be made once the application has been submitted.

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Examinations(a) Examination Subjects
Essay and interview either in Japanese or in English(b) Date and Test Site
Date: Thursday February 15th, 2024 at 8:30 a.m.
The exact timetable is shown on the Admission Ticket.
Test Site: Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School

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Announcement of Successful Applicants(a) Date and Place
9:30 a.m. Monday February 19th, 2024 at Kokusai High SchoolThe lists of the successful examinees’ numbers are to be posted on website for result
announcement at 8:30 a.m.
(b) Notification to the Successful Applicants
A certificate will be given to the applicant or the parents within the period stated below.
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday February 19th, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Tuesday February 20th, 2024
at the school office

6Entrance Formalities
Successful applicants are expected to complete the “School Entrance Agreement Form”
within the period stated below in order to complete the entrance formalities:
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday February 19th, 2024
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Tuesday February 20th, 2024
at the school office
Those who have not completed the entrance formalities within the above-mentioned period
will be regarded as having withdrawn their application.
The School Entrance Agreement Form is invalid unless the School Entrance Fee of ¥5,650
is paid. Payment deadline is specified in the letter of acceptance (Goukaku-tsuchisho).

7Others(a) Applicants who do not comply with the Application Qualifications, or have failed tocomplete and present all the necessary forms, or have given false statements, will bedisqualified even after they have been accepted.
(b) Those applying for the admission in April 2024 for foreign students living in Tokyo arealso able to apply for one of the following two enrollment recruitment of Tokyo
Metropolitan High Schools, i.e. the first recruitment of achievement test basis or the firsthalf recruitment of achievement test basis if the recruitment is carried out in two times.
However, those who have passed the admission in April 2024 for foreign students livingin Tokyo cannot take the above-mentioned two achievement test basis entrance
examinations, even if the application has already been submitted.
(c) All classes at Kokusai High School are taught in Japanese except for foreign language
classes.

- 3 -(d) For further information, please contact Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School.
Address:
Phone:FAX:
E-mail:Office hours:

2-19-59, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0041
03-3468-6811
03-3466-0080
intldept@kokusai-h.metro.tokyo.jp
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