 , the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology officially recognized four Japanese "nihonjin gakkō" day schools in the United States, in Guam, the Chicago metropolitan area, and the New York City metropolitan area.Several other day/boarding schools are classified as "Shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu" () or overseas branches of Japanese private schools; as of 2010 there were three such schools in the U.S.In addition, as of 2010 there were 79 weekend/supplementary schools; in 2006 29 of them were supplied with at least one teacher by the Japanese government.