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was a Japanese education system boarding high school located in Sweetwater, Tennessee. The school, affiliated with the Japanese Presbyterian institution Meiji Gakuin University,〔Koontz, Katy. "(Japanese High School Opens in Tennessee Town )." ''The New York Times''. May 11, 1989. Retrieved on January 11, 2012. "40 miles south of here."〕 was the first accredited Japanese educational system high school in the United States.〔DiPane, Melissa. "(Tennessee Meiji Gakuin School holds last graduation )." ((Archive ), (Archive #2 )) ''WATE''. March 9, 2007. Retrieved on January 11, 2012.〕 The school served grades 10 through 12.〔 This school was an overseas branch of a Japanese private school, or a ''Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu'' (私立在外教育施設).〔"(過去に指定・認定していた在外教育施設 )" ((Archive )). Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Retrieved on March 1, 2015.〕 ==History== Meiji Gakuin University purchased what would become the university campus in the northern hemisphere summer of 1988 for $2.4 million ($ when adjusted for inflation), and it spent $2 million ($ when adjusted for inflation) to renovate the campus.〔Treadwell, David. "(In Tennessee, a bastion of fading Americana, the military school, surrenders to Japanese preppies. )" ''Los Angeles Times''. May 22, 1989. Section 1 National Desk, Start Page 4. Retrieved on January 12, 2012.〕 The school opened to the public on May 11, 1989.〔 The Meiji Gakuin Foundation established the school to allow Japanese students residing in America to receive a Japanese style education,〔Kim, Choong Soon. ''Japanese Industry in the American South''. Psychology Press, September 12, 1995. (93 ). Retrieved from Google Books on January 11, 2012. ISBN 0-415-91403-5, ISBN 978-0-415-91403-1.〕 so they could easily enter Japanese universities upon returning to Japan. The school's opening was originally scheduled for April 20 of that year. The opening was delayed due to the processing of paperwork from teachers and the students who resided in Japan by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).〔 In 1989 Mayor of Sweetwater George Cansler said that the community had a positive reception to the school since it would lead to economic development and because the residents could use the school's recreational facilities for a fee. The week before the school's opening, it held an open house which 200 people attended. The open house included a Japanese tea ceremony and country music, reflecting the cultures of Japan and Tennessee.〔 A cross-burning incident occurred on the evening of Tuesday May 23, 1989, when a group or person placed a wooden cross at the school's entrance and set the cross on fire. Cross burnings were a method of intimidation against racial minorities used by White supremacist groups. After the incident, Jim Burris, the police commissioner of Sweetwater, and Mike Jenkins, the police chief of Sweetwater, made a public apology for the actions of the party who committed the act.〔"(Cross Burned at Japanese High School in Tennessee )." ''United Press International'' at the ''Los Angeles Times''. May 26, 1989. Section 1 National Desk, Start Page 6.〕 The students did not originally understand what the cross burning signified since they were unaware of the significance behind American cross burnings.〔''Transpacific, Volumes 4-5''. AsiAm Pub., 1989. (8 ). Retrieved from Google Books on January 11, 2012. "()faculty nor students of the Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School, the first Japanese high school in the U.S., speak much English, and they didn't immediately catch the racial significance of the incident. Sweetwater Police Commissioner Jim()"〕 Bob Fuller, a former dormitory parent, said that the September 11 attacks, the resulting fears of terrorism, and the decline of the Japanese economy harmed the school. Tennessee Meiji Gakuin was scheduled to close on March 31, 2007.〔 From around 2012 to January 2014 a lawsuit between two parties over the ownership of the TMI/TMG campus had been ongoing.〔Millsaps, Tommy. "(Still waiting on TMG )." ((Archive )) ''The Advocate and Democrat''. January 8, 2014. Retrieved on January 8, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tennessee Meiji Gakuin High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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