We sincerely thank you for visiting the Hiroshima Global Academy (HiGA) website. Last April, Hiroshima Global Academy had its first full range of year groups: three grades in junior high and three in high school. Last month, we witnessed our first cohort’s “leaving the nest.” Students leveraged the results of their International Baccalaureate education, a distinctive feature of our school, to move on to universities both in Japan and overseas. In 2025, more than ever, students and staff are united in our efforts to achieve a “transformation of learning,” and we are grateful for your continuous support.
Our public boarding school began in April 2019 with the purpose of creating leaders who work to create “a better future” for peace and sustainable development in their communities. Junior high school students come from across the country, from Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido to Okinawa, its southernmost. Furthermore, this year we have international students enrolled from or with experience living in Australia, Canada, China, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, the USA, and Uganda into our senior high school program. This setting, unrivaled in Japan, draws together students from varied origins to form “a learning community whose global vision is rooted in local context”. This setting will encourage students to continue their personal development while also inspiring one another.
The International Baccalaureate (IB) academic curriculum, which includes the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP), is a key feature of our school. The IB’s educational framework is the primary tool used by our institution to promote inquiry-based learning. Since HiGA’s inception, each faculty member has passionately supported students by working diligently to improve the pedagogical approaches of the MYP in junior high and the DP in high school. This academic year, our second graduating class will follow their seniors in taking on challenges to achieve their chosen career path, the culmination of their education thus far. I sincerely hope that each and every student’s hard work will yield fruit.
Another distinctive aspect of our institution is dormitory life, structured to promotes students’ growth, physically and mentally. Faculty and dormitory staff will continue to work together to improve students’ quality of life by encouraging mutual support and joint learning opportunities across junior high and high school grade levels. Dormitory life at HiGA also provides a comfortable and secure atmosphere for cross-cultural community living, enriched by the presence of our international students.
HiGA Junior and Senior High School will further develop its students this year through experiential learning facilitated by the IB, as well as student-centered dormitory life that spans various grades and cultures, with the goal of cultivating leaders capable of adapting to a rapidly changing society and forging a “better future” for their communities and society as a whole. We appreciate your ongoing understanding and collaboration in the development of our school’s learning community.
April, 2025
Kaoru Yoshimura
Principal
