Todaiji Gakuen
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Tōdaiji Gakuen (東大寺学園 Tōdaiji Gakuen) is a private school, combined middle and high school in the city of Nara, Japan. It was founded in 1926 as an offshoot of the famous Tōdai-ji temple, and began as an evening middle school (夜間中学) for working students. Daytime education began in 1963, when the current name was adopted, and evening education was dropped in 1977.
[edit] Noted alumni
- Tetsuji Nakamura, member of the House of Representatives
- Shinya Kawano (b. 1980), comedian
- Kazuyoshi Shirahama, House of Councillors member
- Shinichi Kitaoka, United Nations representative
- Kan Kimura, Professor, Kobe University
