Ichikawa Gakuen
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Ichikawa Junior-Senior High School | |
Est. | 1937 |
Course | Academic |
Address | 〒272-0816 |
2-38-1 Motokitakata, Ichikawa, Chiba | |
Tel. | 047-339-2681 047-337-6288(FAX) |
External Link | School Homepage |
Ichikawa Gakuen (Ichikawa Junior and Senior High School) is a large (2500 students) private boys and girls school in Moto-kita-kata (本北方), Ichikawa, Chiba, (千葉県市川市), Japan (日本). The school is sometimes mistaken for a public school due to its name: Ichikawa Junior High School, Ichikawa High School or Ichikawa for short. The private school is managed by the Ichikawa Gakuen School Corporation.
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[edit] History
In 1937, Yonekichi Koga opened the school in Motokitakata, Ichikawa, Chiba. That was the beginning of Ichikawa Gakuen. The school had only male students since after the last war; however, the school became coeducational when the school moved to its present location in the spring of 2003.
[edit] Number of students accepted in Japanese universities in 2006
- University of Tokyo = 6
- Kyoto University = 3
- Hitotsubashi University = 3
- Sophia University = 43
- Waseda University = 111
- Tokyo Science University = 129
- Keio University = 58
- Tokyo Institute of Technology = 7
- Tohoku University = 4
- Tsukuba University = 3
- Chiba University = 13
- Hokkaido University = 3
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology = 5
[edit] Famous alum
- Hideki Takahashi - actor
- Ikuo Subou - businessman (Burning Productions)
- Tatsuo Kawamura - businessman (Burning Productions)
- Takeshi Ebihara - cartoonist
- Hirotami Murakoshi - former DPJ member of the House of Representatives of Japan
[edit] Other
The school manages three kindergartens in the Ichikawa area.