The Saint Joseph Festa is once again being organized by the Alumni Association, and by Berrick Hall’s request, it will be called “Berrick Hall Festival 2019~The Saint Joseph Festa” starting this year. Series of events are being organized with the main event taking place on Saturday evening. Ms. Machiko Chikada, former owner of the legendary record store …..

The SJC/SJIS Alumni Association will continue its annual event of honoring our beloved friends and schoolmates with a Memorial Mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral on September.

The ceiling of the Sacred Heart Cathedral fell on March 17th, this year, and the Church has decided to close the cathedral for safety reasons, and will not reopen until July of 2020. Therefore, the Memorial Mass this year will be held at the Basement Hall of the Church.

The Annual General Meeting of the SJIS Alumni Association will take place as follows.

As always, please be sure to invite other Saints in your respective networks to come join us:

Date: Saturday, August 24th, 2019
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Peking Hanten

The SJIS Alumni Association will host its annual Shinnenkai, and will take place again in Chinatown, Yokohama. This year, it is taking place at Dohatsu Bekkan. Everyone is invited! Invite your friends and join us the to celebrate the Year of the Pig!!

St. Joseph International School Alumni Association will host its 3rd golf competition outing, The St. Joseph Trophy 2018 on Thursday, November 8th at La Vista Golf Resort located in Chiba. The Association believes that golf is a sport that can be enjoyed by all age groups and gender together, and that the event will deepen …..

Following the postwar recovery of Yokohama, the student body of Saint Joseph College (SJC), a school for foreign children, grew to over 450 by the year 1970. However, the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Yokohama, combined with the birth of new international schools in Tokyo, resulted in the dwindling of SJC enrollment in the following years …..

In the early days of Yokohama, only a few schools served the foreign community such as Saint Maur’s, an all-girls Catholic school, the Yokohama Chinese School for the Chinese community, and the Deutsche Schule for the German community. The most representative among them was Saint Joseph College (SJC) an all-boys school established in 1901 …..

The SJC/SJIS Alumni Association will continue its annual event of honoring our beloved friends and schoolmates with a Memorial Mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral on September 23rd. It will be followed by a walk to the Foreign Cemetary to offer prayers in front of the statue of Our Lady of Faith and Fortitude. We will be ending the event with Lunch Junkaikaku in Chinatown …..

The Annual General Meeting of the SJIS Alumni Association will take place as follows…..

The SJIS Alumni Association will host its annual Shinnenkai, and will take place again in Chinatown, Yokohama. This year, it is taking place at Kaseiro Shinkan. Everyone is invited! Invite your friends and join us the to celebrate the Year of the Dog!!