World's Top Schools, Ranked.

Japan · Tokyo

Rooted in Chofu since 1902, its early campus plans once drew sketches from Frank Lloyd Wright himself.

Japan · Chiba Prefecture

Founded to help Japanese returnee students readjust, this reclaimed-land Makuhari campus now funnels graduates into Waseda and Keio by the hundreds.

Japan · Hyōgo Prefecture

Founded by Kobe sake brewers with judo's creator as an advisor, this uniform-free campus channels students straight into Tokyo and Kyoto University.

Japan · Tokyo

An 1871 all-boys day school in one of Tokyo's densest wards, a perennial University of Tokyo feeder now adding IB and AP tracks abroad.

Japan · Nara Prefecture

A Nara hillside campus where a Super Science High School pipeline and boys' boarding houses feed steady streams into Tokyo and Kyoto University.

Japan · Tokyo

Tucked in Koto-ku's Kiyosumi-Shirakawa district, a full IB continuum school whose diploma scores have topped Japan's rankings since 2015.

Japan · Tokyo

Five minutes of traditional needlework open every school day, discipline behind one of Tokyo's toughest routes into the University of Tokyo.

Japan · Tokyo

Since 1908, a wooded Hiroo campus anchors Japan's oldest all-girls international school, blending Sacred Heart values with 23 AP courses.

Japan · Setagaya-ku

On a Setagaya hillside, a Catholic all-boys campus pairs an American diploma track with the IB, blending faith and rigor since 1954.

Japan · Nagano Prefecture

Japan's only UWC campus, tucked on Mount Asama, where seven in ten students study on need-based scholarship.

Japan · Kanagawa Prefecture

Founded in 1924 as the world's second 'international' school, now an IB campus by Kengo Kuma overlooking Yokohama Bay.

Japan · Hyogo Prefecture

Backed by a sake-brewing dynasty, this Hyogo boys' day school quietly outpaces rivals into Kyoto University.

Japan · Kanagawa Prefecture

Founded by missionary nuns in 1872, Yokohama's Yamate hillside campus still runs Asia's oldest international school, Montessori through IB

Japan · Kita-ku

A cherry-lined Kita-ku campus pairs a dojo and trilingual classrooms with near-universal Baccalaureate honors success.

Japan · Tokyo

A Heatherwick-designed Azabudai Hills campus anchors Japan's only full English National Curriculum, steps from Tokyo Tower.

Japan · Tokyo

Japan's only national boys' school pairs a historic rice-paddy tradition with an uncommonly free path into the University of Tokyo.

Japan · Hyogo Prefecture

On a man-made island in Kobe, a century-old boarding tradition dating to 1929 anchors a full IB continuum since 1980.

Japan · Kanagawa Prefecture

Founded in 1958 by French Catholic brothers, this all-boys Yokohama school pairs academic rigor with its historic gentlemen's code.

Japan · Tokyo

An all-girls Catholic day school in Setagaya that became Japan's first to offer the IB Diploma, now a full IB continuum from K to 12.

Japan · Osaka Prefecture

Japan's first full IB continuum, taught alongside a Japanese sister school on one shared Minoh campus

Japan · Tokyo

Home to Asia's first online IB Diploma pilot, this Tokyo IB Continuum school pairs the DP with its own Global Leadership Diploma track.

Japan · Tokyo

Born from postwar missionary schooling on former imperial dairy land, now pairing AP rigor with a campus-wide week of off-site service leadership.

Japan · Hyogo Prefecture

The only international school run by the Marist Brothers, rebuilt from Kobe's 1995 quake into an American-IB dual pathway.

Japan · Tokyo

On a Meiji-era Moto-Azabu estate since 1949, an American K-9 curriculum paired with mandatory daily Japanese lessons

Japan · Fukuoka Prefecture

Kyushu's only Pre-K-12 international campus runs the full IB continuum from a Momochi site along the Muromi River

Japan · Kyoto Prefecture

Small IB classes inside a research-park campus, carrying the 1875 Christian-liberal ethos of the Doshisha network into Kansai Science City.

Japan · Kanagawa

Since 1904, East Asia's oldest German school pairs Abitur rigor with a Borussia Dortmund football academy on its Yokohama campus.

Japan · Hyogo

Perched above Kobe, this Catholic girls' school blends Japan's curriculum with an American track in an Antonin Raymond-designed hall.

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Japan · Aichi

Since 1964, a full IB continuum school anchoring Nagoya's expatriate community at the heart of Japan's auto and aerospace corridor

Japan · Kyoto Prefecture

Grown from a 1957 missionary homeschool into Kyoto's only full IB continuum, blending British rigor with inquiry-based learning.

Japan · Tokyo

Grown from five preschoolers into a full IB continuum, this Minato campus relocates to Takanawa Gateway City ahead of its first DP class in 2027.

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Japan · Hiroshima Prefecture

One of Japan's oldest IB schools, where students carry origami cranes to Hiroshima's Sadako Peace Monument each year.

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Japan · Tokyo

A Shibuya campus where ten foreign-language tracks, from Vietnamese to Russian, outnumber most universities' language departments

Japan · Aomori Prefecture

A snowbound Aomori powerhouse where national soccer titles and elite university-track classrooms share the same campus.

Japan · Tokyo

A Bunkyo girls' school built from 1924 earthquake ashes, sending more graduates to Tokyo University than any other girls' school in Japan.