Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School Explained

Kagoshima Prefectural Konan Senior High School
Established:	1906(Daini-Kagoshima Middle School under the old system of education), 1948(Konan High School)
Type:	Public senior high school, co-educational
Grades:	1–3
Location:	Kagoshima, Kagoshima
Country:	Japan
Website:	Kagoshima Prefectural Konan Senior High School official website

is an upper secondary school in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a co-educational public school.

Overview

Before the school system was reformed after World War II, this school used to be known as and .^{[1] [2]} The two schools became Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School in 1949. The official founding year is 1906 when Daini-Kagoshima Middle School was founded. However, Daini-Kagoshima Middle School is regarded as one of the successors of in Meiji era, which originated from the han school called in Edo period.^[3]

The school's main building with the dome was built in 1930 (early Showa era) as the Daini-Kagoshima Middle School's building.^[4] The school is located on the south side of the . In addition, there are birthplaces of Ōkubo Toshimichi, also called, and Saigō Takamori, also called, near the school. The school was named for these reasons.

The ivy and the camphor tree in the schoolyard are the school symbols. The school emblem features deer antlers and a flower of dianthus. Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru High School is the rival school.

As of 2022, this school has full-day General Course (全日制普通科) which is three-year course.

Notable alumni

Politics

• Chieko Nōno^[5] - member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice, Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Measures for Declining Birthrate
• Osanori Koyama^{[6] [7]} - member of the National Diet, Minister of Construction, Minister of State for Director General of Environment Agency
• Moichi Miyazaki^[8] - member of the National Diet, Minister of State for Director General of the Science and Technology Agency
• Tadahiko Shimadzu^[9] - member of the National Diet
• Toshifumi Kosehira^[10] - member of the National Diet

Academic

• Akira Arimura^[11] - neuroscientist, biochemist, Professor Emeritus at Tulane University in America
• Isamu Akasaki - engineer and physicist, inventor of the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED, Nobel prize in Physics, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, IEEE Edison Medal, Kyoto Prize, Japan Academy Prize & Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, Person of Cultural Merit, Order of Culture, Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University, Distinguished Professor at Meijo University
• Kikuo Arakawa^[12] - medical scientist, cardiovascular scientist, internist, World Hypertension League Award, International Society of Hypertension Distinguished Fellow Award, Professor Emeritus at Fukuoka University, the 12th President of the International Society of Hypertension
• Kimito Funatsu - chemist of chemoinformatics, Herman Skolnik Award, Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo
• Kunio Shiota^[13] - life scientist, biochemist, Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo
• Hideki Sakurai - organic chemist, Japan Academy Prize & Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, Professor Emeritus at Tohoku University, The President of the Chemical Society of Japan
• Akitsune Imamura^{[14] [15]} - seismologist

Culture

• Katsusuke Miyauchi - author of fiction and essays,, Yomiuri Prize for Literature
• Taro Yashima^[16] - artist and author of picture books in America, the Caldecott Honor
• Shinobu Kaitani - manga artist
• Iemasa Kayumi^[17] - voice actor, actor
• Toshiaki Megumi - comedian, actor, television presenter
• Seishirō Nishida - actor
• Takeji Fujishima^[18] - yōga painter, Order of Culture
• Goyō Hashiguchi^[19] - print artist, book designer
• Satoru Nishizono - anime and tokusatsu screenwriters

Sports

• Jun'ichi Miyashita - swimmer, Olympics bronze medalist
• Sanpō Toku^[20] - judo player

Surrounding area

Southern

• Kagoshima University
• Kagoshima City Transportation Bureau

Northern

• Museum of the Meiji Restoration
  • Kagoshima Women's College

Eastern

• • (a shinto shrine)

Western

• Kagoshima-Chūō Station
• Amu Plaza Kagoshima and Amuran Ferris wheel

External links

• Kagoshima Prefectural Konan Senior High School official website (in Japanese)
• Kagoshima Prefectural Konan Senior High School blog HP (in Japanese)

31.5794°N 130.5462°W

Notes and References

1. Book: 猪熊建夫 . 2019-11-27 . ja:伝統高校100　西日本篇 . ja . Japan . 武久出版 . 358–361 . 9784894541337 .
2. Under the old system of education in Japan, Middle School had a five-year course for boys aged 12 and over, and Girls' High School had a four or five-year course for girls at the same age. Some five-year course's students go on to the schools of higher education when they finish the fourth grade. Due to World War II, the five-year course was sometimes shortened to four years.
3. Book: 南日本新聞社 . 1969 . ja:郷土人系 中. ja . Japan . 春苑堂書店 . 109 .
4. Book: 甲南高校創立百周年記念事業同窓会実行委員会記念誌委員会 . 2006-11-03 . ja:樟風遙か 甲南高校創立百周年 同窓会記念誌 . ja . Japan . 甲南高校創立百周年記念事業同窓会実行委員会 . 182–190 .
5. Web site: https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/koizumidaijin/040927/03noono.html . ja . ja:法務大臣 内閣府特命担当大臣〔青少年育成及び少子化対策〕 南野知惠子 . Chieko Nōno - Minister of Justice / Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Measures for Declining Birthrate . ja:首相官邸 . Prime Minister's Office of Japan . 2004-09-27 . 2021-09-21.
6. Book: 小松 洋一 . 1982-03-12 . ja:青少年への座右銘 新 現代宮崎の百人 . ja . Japan . 育英出版社 .
7. alumni of Daini-Kagoshima Middle School
8. Book: 鶴岡 正夫 . September 1976 . ja:青少年の座右銘 現代鹿児島の百人 . ja . Japan . 育英出版社 . 166 .
9. (in Japanese). 1950-06-06. morning issue p.1.
10. Web site: https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/koizumiseimukan/051102/20kosehira.html . ja . ja:農林水産大臣政務官 小斉平 敏文 . Toshifumi Kosehira (Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) . ja:首相官邸 . Prime Minister's Office of Japan . 2005-11-02 . 2022-06-18.
11. Book: 七高史研究会 . April 2001 . ja:七高造士館で学んだ人々 改訂版 . ja . Japan . 七高史研究会 .
12. 伊藤 正治,荒川規矩男 . ja:Medical Who’s Who 福岡大学名誉教授・日本高血圧協会理事長 荒川規矩男 . ja . 月刊ＪＭＳ . 菊医会/The Japan Medical Society . 162 . 2010-05-25 . 74–79 .
13. Web site: https://www.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seminar/yousisyu/42-yousisyu.pdf . ja:東京大学農学部公開セミナー 第42回「未来を創る農学　未来を支える農学」講演要旨集 . ja . Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tokyo . 2017-01-12 . 2021-11-11.
14. Book: 第七高等学校造士館 . 1939-08-15 . ja:第七高等学校造士館一覧 自昭和14年4月至昭和15年3月 . ja . Japan . 第七高等学校造士館 . 122 .
15. alumni of predecessors before 1906
16. Book: 宇佐美承 . 1981-11-30 . ja:さよなら日本 絵本作家八島太郎と光子の亡命 . ja . Japan . 晶文社 . 9784794959379 . 46–55 .
17. Book: 甲南高校創立百周年記念事業同窓会実行委員会記念誌委員会 . 2006-11-03 . ja:樟風遙か 甲南高校創立百周年 同窓会記念誌 . ja . Japan . 甲南高校創立百周年記念事業同窓会実行委員会 . 144 .
18. Web site: https://www.tobunken.go.jp/materials/bukko/8660.html . ja:藤島武二 - 独立行政法人国立文化財機構 東京文化財研究所 . Independent Administrative Institution National Institutes for Cultural Heritage Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties . ja . 2021-09-21.
19. Book: March 1996 . ja:かごしま文化の表情 第6集 (絵画編) . ja . Japan . 鹿児島県県民福祉部県民生活課 . 88–93 .
20. Book: 指宿英造 . 2012-03-10 . ja:柔道一代 徳三宝 . ja . Japan . 南方新社 . 9784861241291 .