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The classroom photos on this site are Creative Commons and public-domain images from Wikimedia Commons. They show children and teachers at schools, kindergartens and events in Japan, not Mirai Minds pupils, whose photos we keep private. Teacher portraits are our own. Credits:

  • Playing janken in an English class, Uta Junior High School: Aka Hige from from Denton, TX, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Reading.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Reading.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Dear my teacher.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Schoolchildren reading on the way home, Tokyo; April 2018: Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Japan-28: Rachelle Haun, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Picture story show.: MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Picture-story show (kamishibai): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Homework for summer vacation.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kinokuniya Bookshop.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Class Observation Day.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Entrance ceremony. (Explored): MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Entrance ceremony.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Entrance ceremony.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Learning PAD.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Pianist (a student at the piano in a school music room): Dr Soe Min, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Sakurako and Sakiko at Spring Piano Recital 2024, Hokkaido; April 2024 (05): MIKI Yoshihito. (#mikiyoshihito), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Sakurako and Sakiko at Spring Piano Recital 2024, Hokkaido; April 2024 (09): MIKI Yoshihito. (#mikiyoshihito), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Spring Piano Recital 2025, Sapporo City; April 2025 (05): MIKI Yoshihito. (#mikiyoshihito), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Spring Piano Recital 2025, Sapporo City; April 2025 (12): MIKI Yoshihito. (#mikiyoshihito), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • MCAS Iwakuni hosts Japanese Bon Odori Summer Festival: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Colin Thibault, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO joins in the Bon festival dance.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SKDB Kids Event Onboard NAF Atsugi: U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Henry Liu, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Plat ABC's 4-year anniversary celebration: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tyler Bassett, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • The Annual Iwakuni Friendship Concert 2026: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tyler Bassett, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • The Annual Iwakuni Friendship Concert 2026: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tyler Bassett, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • 甲子園閉会式 – Flickr – Kentaro Iemoto@Tokyo (1): Kentaro Iemoto from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Piano Lesson.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Piano lesson.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Piano Lesson. (Explored) – Flickr – MIKI Yoshihito. (^mikiyoshihito): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Piano practice: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Piano recital 2015.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Piano recital 2015.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Sakurako and Sakiko at Spring Piano Recital 2024, Hokkaido; April 2024 (08): MIKI Yoshihito. (#mikiyoshihito), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Aioi Peron Matsuri, July 2009 (131): Corpse Reviver, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Bon-odori Dance Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Bon-odori Dance Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Children kabuki theater in Nagahama (Lady Shizuka, 10 y.o.): lensonjapan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Murakuniza kodomo kabuki, Kakamigahara (murakuniza096): 杉山宣嗣, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Elementary School Play.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Elementary School Play.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Elementary School Play.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Elementary School Play.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Elementary School Play.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • NT Sapporo 2019 (Nico-Tech): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Laptop Mail Terminal.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Driving Simulator: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – 3DS Lover.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – NDS Lite.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Children with Pepper, Tokyo Auto Salon 2016: Moto "Club4AG" Miwa from USA, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Radio control car operation.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Radio control car operation.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Go! Go! Go!!!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Kodomoroid® (Child Android), the world's first news announcer android, exhibited at Miraikan (2015-06-15 04.00.10 by Franklin Heijnen): Franklin Heijnen, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Robocupjuniordance: Alex from Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Five-year-olds catching fish on an overnight nursery trip: 811lh8535, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Aquarium.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Aquarium.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – OTARU Aquarium.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Osaka Aquarium KAIYUKAN.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Osaka Aquarium KAIYUKAN (3): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Sakiko enjoyed Chitose Aquarium.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Sakiko enjoyed Chitose Aquarium.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Petting zoo.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO and crocodile.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO goes on an excursion to a MARUYAMA ZOO.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Northern Horse Park.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Sea otters.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Bird Watching. (30911987773) (cropped): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Hot Summer Day!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Chibikko shūchū (children watching a screen): Tamaki Sono, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Just size "Q7".: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • PCM recording device.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Hunter.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – OMD.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – PowerShot Shooter!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • School children at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, April 2016: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Bon Festival Dance.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Bon Festival Dance.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Bon Festival Dance.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Matsuri happi: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • The BON festival dance.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – The Seven-Five-Three Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – HOKKAI Bon-odori Dance Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Sapporo Flower Carpet 2016.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Bon-odori Dance Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Hot Summer Day! (Toyohira riverside): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Niseko Camping.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Niseko Camping.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Go camping!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Good rainy morning!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Summer Camping!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Summer Camping!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Get Back to Nature.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kiroro Resort.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Hoshino Resorts TOMAMU.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • KOUHEI – Kindergarten Sports Festival: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • KOUHEI – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • KOUHEI – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • The Athletic Festival in a Japanese elementary school (02): MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • The Athletic Festival in a Japanese elementary school (03): MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • 行進: MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Kindergarten Sports Festival; September 2013 (23): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKIKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Athletic festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Footrace (Athletic festival).: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Kindergarten Sports Festival; September 2013 (22): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Kids sumo wrestling – TSUKISAMU Shinto shrine festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Let's take a ride.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Rope Jumping!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Soccer training.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Drawing!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Children sketching in a park, Kumamoto, 1971 (71-1322): wilford peloquin, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Fortune in and demons out!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Finger puppet.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Projection Mapping.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Color check.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Jinsei Game kodomo (children playing The Game of Life): Tam Tam from Shizuoka, JAPAN, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Count money!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Air hockey.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Kindergarten Sports Festival (waiting with friends): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • POKEMON card battle: MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Holiday with friends!: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Kindergarten Sports Festival; September 2013 (01): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Kindergarten Sports Festival; September 2013 (02): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Marines teach English to Okinawa students through song and play (140919-M-PJ295-339): Lance Cpl. Diamond Peden, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Lesson using Kanaya stone, 3 December 2014: Nhrdsk, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Entrance ceremony.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Entrance ceremony.: MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Japanese schoolboys smiling: Aka Hige from Denton, TX, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • Robo (children with an aibo): flarthurhu from Rochester, MN, USA, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • SAKURAKO – Water machine gun (Sapporo Waterworks Museum): MIKI Yoshihito from Sapporo City,Hokkaido., JAPAN, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • A girl at a Japanese kindergarten entrance ceremony, April 2019; SAKIKO is reading a picture book: MIKI Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
  • 3rd Recon Marines teach Nago children: U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Peter Sanders, public domain (Wikimedia Commons)