Osaka Prefectural Kaifukan High School

This section will explain not only the history of Kaifukan High School but that of Habikino High School and Nishiura High School, which are its predecessors.

The project office for Habikino High School was founded in 1970. The school was open in 1971 and had a full-time general course. In 1978, Nishiura High school opened in Nishiura of Habikino City, and had a full-time general course as well.{{Cite web|url=http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/habikino/ab_gakkoshokai/index_ab.html|title=大阪府立羽曳野高等学校|accessdate=October 27, 2017|publisher=Osaka Prefectural Education Center |language=ja}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/nishiura/outline.html#enkaku|title=大阪府立西浦高等学校 – 本校の概要 -|accessdate=October 27, 2017|publisher=Osaka Prefectural Education Center |language=ja}}

In 2007 the board of education of Osaka Prefecture announced the policy that both Habikino High School and Nishiura High School would be integrated to become a new high school with general selection system.{{efn|According to school's homepage, general selection system allows the students to choose various elective subjects corresponding to their interests.{{cite web | url=http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/habikino/kaifukan/01_gakkocho.html | title=大阪府立懐風館高等学校-学校長の挨拶 | accessdate=October 28, 2017 | language=ja | publisher=Osaka Prefectural Education Center }} }} The new school named Kaifukan High School was open in 2009. Both Habikino High School and Nishiura High School stopped accepting applications accordingly, and were closed in March 2011, when the last generation students were to graduate.

• April 1971 – Osaka Prefectural Habikino High School was open.
• April 1978 – Osaka Prefectural Nishiura High School was open.
• April 2009 – Osaka Prefectural Kaifukan High School was open. Both Habikino High School and Nishiura High School stopped accepting applications accordingly.
• March 2011 – Both Habikino High School and Nishiura High School{{Cite web|url=http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/nishiura/|title=大阪府立西浦高等学校|accessdate=October 27, 2017|publisher=Osaka Prefectural Education Center |language=ja}} were closed.

As of 2017 the school offers two professional courses including sports youth leaders course and child care leaders course as well as three other courses including humanities course, science course and medical course. The freshmen need to take the common curriculum, and the sophomores are required to choose one of the five courses. Any course is designed to help the students to go up to higher education or to get a job.{{Cite web|url=http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/kaifukan/02_kyouiku_naiyo.html|title=大阪府立懐風館高等学校（クラブ活動）|publisher=Osaka Prefectural Education Center|language=ja|access-date=October 31, 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/kokosaihenseibi/husousen_kaihen/index.html|language=ja|publisher=Osaka Prefecture|title=大阪府／普通科総合選択制の改編に関すること|accessdate=October 31, 2017}}

In 2017 a 18-year-old female student of Kaifukan High School sued the prefecture at Osaka District Court, stating that she suffered mental pain after she had been forced to dye her hair black by the school, seeking the compensation for her damages. She claims that she was bullied by the educators under the guidance.

According to the lawsuit, the school forced her to dye her hair black repeatedly on the grounds of the school regulations, even though her mother had told the school beforehand that the student's hair is naturally-brown. She had been forced to dye her hair frequently since her entrance, and as a result her skin and hair was damaged. In addition an educator insulted her merely because she was brought up in a fatherless family. The school forbid her to attend the classes as well as school trip and school festival, blaming her for not dyeing her hair black adequately. In April 2017, the school removed her name from the list of the students arbitrarily and neglected to assign her seating in the classroom. She has not attended the class since September 2016.

The prefecture is asking the court to reject the claim, stating that some of the claim is contrary to the fact. Both the prefecture and the school refused to comment on the case. The head teacher did not declare whether "dyeing one's brown hair black" is a breach of the regulation or not, which prohibits the students from coloring or bleaching their hair. Meanwhile the student claims that the school told her mother{{efn|Mainichi Shimbun reports that the school told not her mother but the lawyer.}}, "even an oversea student with natural fair hair would be required to dye his/her hair black in accordance with the rule".

Alumni of former Habikino High School are listed.

• Kensaku Tennichi – a basketball coach of Nishinomiya Storks{{Cite news|url=https://www.kobe-np.co.jp/news/sports/201705/0010186010.shtml|title=＜人＞バスケットボールＢリーグで１部昇格を決めた西宮ストークスのコーチ 天日謙作さん|accessdate=October 27, 2017|newspaper=Kobe Shimbun | date=May 14, 2017 | language=ja}}
• {{ill2|Koji Yukawa|ja|湯川浩司}} – a racer of Kyōtei, professional hydroplane racing{{Cite news|url=https://www.daily.co.jp/horse/boat_schedule2008/080629sg.shtml|title=湯川、史上初のグラチャン連覇|accessdate=October 27, 2017|newspaper=Daily Sports | date=June 29, 2008 | language=ja}}
• {{ill2|Hirofumi Sawai|ja|澤井宏文}} – Mayor of Matsubara City{{Cite web|url=http://www.city.matsubara.osaka.jp/index.cfm/9,0,73,400,html|title=市長のプロフィール|accessdate=October 27, 2017|publisher=Matsubara City|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027180752/http://www.city.matsubara.osaka.jp/index.cfm/9,0,73,400,html|archive-date=October 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}

• 13 minutes' walk from Komagatani Station on Minami Osaka Line{{Cite web|url=http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/kaifukan/access.html|title=大阪府立懐風館高等学校（アクセス）|accessdate=October 27, 2017|publisher=Osaka Prefectural Education Center|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617155806/http://www.osaka-c.ed.jp/kaifukan/access.html|archive-date=June 17, 2016|url-status=dead}}

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