Tokyo Jogakkan is one of the oldest private schools for girls in Japan. It was founded in 1888 by a group of Japanese and non-Japanese leaders in Japan to help put Japanese women on equal footing with Western women. The International Class is a renewal of that commitment to help women take their rightful place amongst society's leaders, as elaborated in the school's "Mission for the 21st Century." Our idea of leadership sees an effective leader as someone who plays a cooperative role within a group.

Through our three pillars---communication ability, problem solving, and intercultural understanding---we hope to cultivate women of character who, with those skills and understandings, serve others and contribute to society.