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Dressed in their dark blue uniforms, about 480 students from 50 nations listened one December morning to their teachers during a meeting in the school gym at K. International School Tokyo in Koto Ward.
International schools like KIST, with a diverse student body, have flourished in recent years. Begun as a kindergarten for foreign children in 1997, the school added elementary school education in 1998, junior high school programs in 2000 and high school classes in 2003.