When I was researching for future reference in Japan, I checked out the

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..Montessori there too and met the director that ran that school as she gave me a tour and showed me some of the students' work:

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Outdoor wing:

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Their students compose of Japanese, American and European kids. The director said, many U.S. military personnel send their kids there for education.

Here are some of those pre-schoolers' work:

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Whether in Asia, Europe or here, the teaching philosophy and strategies are the same according to the folks that run it. This one is in San Francisco:

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One of the biggest differences between young students in Japan and here that I've observed when in Japan is Japanese kids as young as 5 riding the subway alone to and from school is the norm there because they've been trained to do that all their lives: