Spillin' The Tea is a Hanabi column that takes a casual perspective on submissions from the ASIJ Community. The 2024-25 writers are Koyo Odagari (10), Carolin Holjo (11), and Shivaan Kothari (11). This...

Every spring, the ASIJ student body gathers to vote for who they think should be their next Student Body President. Weeks of campaigning in hallways, classrooms, and across social media lead up to a day...

The first handful of brightly colored powder was flung into the air. Cheers erupted as powdery clouds of red, pink, blue, green, and yellow transformed the bus turnaround. With every toss and throw, faces...

High school—the final frontier. The end of our K-12 journey. The place we imagine to be like the movies. Just the idea of becoming a high schooler conjures a mix of both excitement and nervousness.  We're...

As discussions about the upcoming ASIJ campus renovation and the “river of learning” — a key part of the school’s architectural vision — continue to stir excitement among current students, a...

Y-E-L-L, hit it! The ASIJ Cheerleading team, who lead chants and entertain crowds at sports games, finished off the winter season where they cheered for the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams. This...

On a Thursday afternoon last month, senior Sophia Nielsen strode through the high school hallways searching for an open room where she could rehearse her One Act Play. In tow was Evi Chung, also a senior,...

Last month, the ASIJ English and Japanese departments had the privilege of hearing from Gregory Khezrnejat, a transnational writer and professor at Hosei University. As a diverse student body with a wide...

Naomi Almog is a senior at ASIJ, known throughout the high school for her musical talent. She has been singing in choirs since elementary school and joined ASIJ as a sophomore in 2021. At school, she is...

There are 171,476 words currently used in the English language according to the Oxford English Dictionary’s Second Edition. This fact sometimes scares people away from the voluminous rows of books in...