As an Assistant Language Teacher helping Japanese students learn English, one of the best parts is talking to my students and discovering they enjoy the same games or TV shows that I do - in this case, Minecraft!

So in an effort to increase student interaction and engagement, I'm recreating their junior high school building in-game. The finished build will be used for class activities, but I figured there might be some folks who are interested in seeing a Japanese style school themselves, so sharing screenshots (and perhaps the world or schematic?) here.

I used building blueprints & photographs taken around the school as my reference, and for privacy/security reasons won't be sharing those. Still, the results are still fun to look at~

Note on 1.14 - I can see myself using plenty of the new blocks, so if I haven't finished building this by the time 1.14 comes out I'll probably try to migrate it over to take advantage of the expanded palette & updated textures.