Once a Dolphin, Always a Dolphin

For over sixty years, Nagoya International School has sent graduates out into the world — and no matter how far they travel, a part of them always stays here, in Nakashidami. Our alumni span more than fifty countries and every possible path: doctors and diplomats, entrepreneurs and engineers, artists, athletes, and everything in between. What connects them isn't a shared career or a shared passport — it's a shared foundation, built during the years that shaped who they became.

An education doesn't end at graduation; it echoes forward, quietly, into every decision that follows. Long after the classrooms and coursework fade from memory, what remains is a way of seeing — an instinct to inquire rather than settle, a spark that keeps them inspired long after the encouragement that first lit it, and a hunger to leave their own impact on whatever world they find themselves in. That is the real measure of a school: not what it teaches while a student is here, but what continues to move them once they're gone.

And a community, unlike a campus, has no edges. In a city of millions, ours has always felt more like a small neighborhood where every face was known — a neighborhood that doesn't end at the front gate or the year of a diploma. That kind of closeness doesn't stay behind when you leave it. To belong here once is to belong here always.

So dive back in. Share your story, find an old friend, or simply see how far this school's reach now extends. Once a Dolphin, always a Dolphin — Go Dolphins!