The Japanese school system is vastly different from schools in the US. Some private schools that offer year-abroad programs do not tailor their curricula to fulfill American high school course-credit requirements.
The Meitoku Gijuku Year in Japan Program is specifically designed to fulfill credit requirements for the student's original school in the US, Canada or Mexico.
This ensures that, when the student returns home after a year in Japan, all of his/her class credits will transfer smoothly, and their educaitonal plans towards college won't be stalled because of incomplete credits.
Part of the translation process for this project was to tailor the marketing message to prospective exchange students who are aware of the credit-transfer issues that can come up after a year abroad.
For context sensitive text like this piece, it is essential to have a translator with native cultural knowledge to give input on the relevance of the text.
MEITOKU GIJUKU SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
1-Year International Exchange (Academic Credit Transfer Program)
Meitoku Gijuku Senior High School invites students from the US, Canada and Mexico for a one year study abroad program. Our specially designed curriculum will focus on Japanese language and culture, and on trasfer-credit courses. Credits for classes taken in this program will transfer back to your school at home, to ensure that students will be able to continue onto the next grade when they return home.
Students have a range of options for post-high school educational plans with the flexible credit-transfer system: they can attend a North American university, apply to Japanese universities as kikoku shijo, or atten a Japanese university as a foreign exchange student.
Each student's personalized study plan will be determined after an initial placement exam and academic counseling. The initial assessment will determine the student's placement grade, curriculum and Japanese language class placement. The maximum number of units in which a student may enroll during the 1-year exchange will be equivalent to 80 units. Programs offered will include beginning level Japanese, as well as English and Math following native school curricula.