Tsurumaru High School
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| Type | Public senior high school, co-educational |
| Established | 1894(Middle School under the old system of education), 1949(Tsurumaru High School) |
| Grades | 1–3 |
| Website | Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru High School |
Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru Senior High School (鹿児島県立鶴丸高等学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Tsurumaru Kōtō Gakkō) is an upper secondary school in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a co-educational public school.
Overvew[]
Tsurumaru High School used to be known as the two secondary schools under the old system of education: Kagoshima Prefectural Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School (鹿児島県立第一鹿児島中学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Daiichi Kagoshima Chūgakkō) and Kagoshima Prefectural Daiichi Girls’ High School (鹿児島県立第一高等女学校, Kagoshima Kenritsu Daiichi Kōtōjogakkō).[1][2][note 1] Those schools became Tsurumaru High School in 1949. Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School was established in 1894 as "鹿児島県尋常中学校"(Kagoshima Ken Jinjō-Chūgakkō)[1][2] and the year is Tsurumaru's founding year.
This high school's name is derived from Kagoshima Castle also called Tsurumaru Castle[2]. After World War II, the Seventh Higher School Zoshikan(第七高等学校造士館,Daishichi Kōtō Gakkō Zōshikan) on the former site of Tsurumaru Castle was closed because of the Educational reform in occupied Japan.[note 2] People named the successor of Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School «Tsurumaru» after the site of the Seventh Higher School because they missed it[2]. The school emblem features a crane spreading its wings because Tsuru (鶴) means a crane in Japanese.
Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School is the rival school[1].
Notable alumni[]
- Politics and Government
- Shigenori Tōgō[note 3] - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs
- Kokichi Shimoinaba[note 3] - Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
- Hiroko Ōta - economist, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
- Minoru Yanagida - member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
- Yasuhiro Ozato - member of the National Diet
- Takashi Uto - member of the National Diet
- Naokuni Nomura[note 3] - admiral, Minister of Navy
- Mitsuru Ushijima[note 3] - general
- Masafumi Arima[note 3] - admiral
- Academic
- Hiroshi Enatsu[note 3] - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at Ritsumeikan University
- Culture
- Kawataro Nakajima[note 3] - literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at Wayo Women's University, Mystery Writers of Japan Award,
- wowaka - musician
Surrounding area[]
Notes[]
- ^ Under the old system of education in Japan, Middle School had a five-year course for boys aged 12 and over, and Girls High School had a four or five-year course for girls at the same age.
- ^ The Seventh Higher School was absorbed into Kagoshima University under the new educational system.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g alumini of Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c 猪熊建夫,"伝統高校100 西日本篇",Japan:武久出版,2019,pp354-357.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "鶴丸高等学校 創立百年",Japan:鶴丸高等学校百年史編集委員会,1994
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Coordinates: 31°35′23.8″N 130°32′17.2″E / 31.589944°N 130.538111°E
- High schools in Kagoshima Prefecture
- Educational institutions established in 1894
- Education in Kagoshima Prefecture
- Buildings and structures in Kagoshima Prefecture
- Buildings and structures in Japan destroyed during World War II