Bilingual, fluent or native English speaker? Born in Japan, returnee, visiting Japan or mixed race family?

Join us for Saturday School and midweek afterschool classes where we mix a strong academic program with lots of social opportunities and activities to create a healthy balance of academic success and opportunities to use English naturally for communication and play.

Why Choose KOBILS International Program?

Click here for Kindergarten. KOBILS provides an alternative to international school allowing children to build strong English speaking and academic skills while also learning basic Kanji and Japanese in their full-time, regular schooling.

Native course materials

We use US and British Language Arts course books for Saturday class, and offer ESL or specific skills classes during the week.

Placement in level appropriate classes

Children are placed in classes with other children of the same academic level and are able to move between classes at any time. This means your child is always being taught at the right level for them and is always suitably challenged in class.

Experienced, full-time native teachers

All classes are taught by our full-time native English teachers from England, the US and Canada, who are trained and licensed teachers, and/or skilled and experienced with working with children of this age group, and often bilingual too. All our teachers are motivated and excited about working with our children and strive to maintain a fun and stimulating learning environment.

English Immersion

We provide an immersion environment where children use English naturally and cooperatively both with the teacher and among themselves during class and outside activities without enforcement by the teacher. So native speakers can feel relaxed and Japanese children get a chance to use English for peer interaction and real communication.

Monthly Fun Days, parties, events and trips. Summer school too

Nine months of the year, Saturday school children join our extended Fun Day program whereby we study as usual in the morning and go out hiking, bowling, to museums or other places of interest in the afternoon, again encouraging them to use English for real communication, not just for study. Of course we have Halloween parties, Christmas parties and other events, and our Summer School is always over-subscribed.

A huge library

The biggest English library of books outside of full-time international schools in Kansai, children can borrow up to six books at a time and we are constantly adding to our library at student request and to reflect students’ interests. So our children read, read, read...