The Strange But True Stories Behind Your Favorite Childhood Books

There Is A School In Japan Inspired By Anne Of Green Gables

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Anne of Green Gables is a children’s novel about an orphan girl with carrot-red hair growing up in the tiny Canadian province of Prince Edward Island.

The novel has been in Japan’s school curriculum since 1952. In 1979, it was made into an anime. There is a school of social work and nursing in Okayama called The School of Green Gables. The Anne Academy in Fukuoka teaches Japanese students to speak English with the distinctive Prince Edward Island accent.