Koyo Gakuin High School
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{{Nihongo|Koyo Gakuin High School|甲陽学院高等学校|Kōyō-gakuin kōtō-gakkō}} is a male-only high school located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was founded as a middle school in 1917 by Komakichiro Iga, with support from the Tatsu-uma family, owners of the Hakushika brand of Japanese Refined Sake, since 1920. The school is administered by the {{Nihongo|Scholarship Society of Tatsu-uma Institution|学校法人辰馬育英会|Gakkō-hounin Tatsuuma ikueikai}}. It was reorganized into junior and senior high schools under the educational reforms of 1948. Many of its alumni have succeeded in fields such as business, medicine and academic.
== Rankings ==
According to the ranking of Hensachi, which uses adjusted standard deviation scores to measure academic ability in Japan, the Koyo Gakuin High School constitutes the second group with a deviation value of 73, following the top group of schools with deviation values of 74 constituted by Nada High School and Junior & Senior High School at Komaba, University of Tsukuba.[http://www.arida-net.ne.jp/m-gakuin/yumeikokohensachi.html Ranking of high-ranked high schools in terms of educational offering in Japan (全国有名進学高校偏差値ランキング)]
Notable alumni
Notable alumni include:
- Nobutada Saji, CEO of Suntory Ltd.
- Kazuhiko Nishi, founder of ASCII Corporation
- Hidesaburou Hanafusa, Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller University
- Kaoru Betto, baseball player
References
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External links
- [http://www.koyo.ac.jp Koyo Gakuin High School] {{in lang|ja}}
Category:High schools in Hyōgo Prefecture
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