08-11-2015, 04:41 PM
GuyGene wrote:
Drew, you're in Nishinomiya?!?!? Know the area fairly well. Never lived there, but had good friends who lived there. Is Canadian Academy still there? I'm going way back now...
Hi Gene. Yes, I've lived in Nishinomiya for 24 years. (In the US for a brief holiday at the moment.) As you know, it's a suburb of Osaka or Kobe, depending on how you view it. Canadian Academy is still here. The student populations of the international schools have changed quite a bit, as there are far fewer western expat families these days. For example, Proctor and Gamble moved their Asian headquarters from Kobe to Singapore a few years ago. Also, several of the oil companies and others don't provide the nice expat packages of days gone by. Those schools now compete for Asian students, mainly non-Japanese, from families aiming to get their children into a western university or living in Japan because of work reasons.