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.

Contents 1 History 2 Number of students accepted in Japanese universities in 2006 3 Famous alum 4 Other 5 Gallery

[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 also manages three kindergartens in the Ichikawa area.

[edit] Gallery

Ichikawa Gakuen School Uniform

South wing of Ichikawa Gakuen