Tsurumaru High School Explained

Tsurumaru High School
Established:	1894(Middle School under the old system of education), 1949(Tsurumaru High School)
Type:	Public senior high school, co-educational
Grades:	1–3
Location:	Kagoshima
Country:	Japan
Website:	Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru High School

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] [3]} Those schools became Tsurumaru High School in 1949. Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School was established in 1894 as and the year is Tsurumaru's founding year.

This high school's name is derived from Kagoshima Castle also called Tsurumaru Castle. After World War II, the on the former site of Tsurumaru Castle was closed because of the educational reform in occupied Japan.^[4] People named the successor of Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School "Tsurumaru" after the site of the Seventh Higher School because they missed it. The school emblem features a crane spreading its wings because means a crane in Japanese.

Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School is the rival school.

Notable alumni

Politics and Government

• Shigenori Tōgō - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs
• Kokichi Shimoinaba - Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
• Hiroko Ōta - economist, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
• Minoru Yanagida - member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
• Yasuhiro Ozato^[5] - member of the National Diet
• Takashi Uto^[6] - member of the National Diet
• Naokuni Nomura - admiral, Minister of Navy
• Mitsuru Ushijima^[7] - general
• Masafumi Arima - admiral

Academic

• Hiroshi Enatsu - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at Ritsumeikan University

Culture

• Kawataro Nakajima^[8] - literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at Wayo Women's University, Mystery Writers of Japan Award,

Surrounding area

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

External links

• Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru High School (Japanese)

31.5899°N 130.5381°W

Notes and References

1. Book: 猪熊建夫 . 2019-11-27 . 伝統高校100 西日本篇 . Japanese . Japan . 武久出版 . 354–357 . 9784894541337 .
2. Book: 鶴丸高等学校百年史編集委員会 . March 1994 . 鶴丸高等学校 創立百年 . Japanese . Japan . 鶴丸高等学校創立百周年記念事業委員会.
3. 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.
4. The Seventh Higher School was absorbed into Kagoshima University under the new educational system.
5. Web site: https://www.ozato-yasuhiro.jp/profile/ . ja . ja:宇都隆史外務副大臣略歴 . ja:外務省 . 2020-10-02 . 2023-10-21.
6. Web site: https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/p_pd/dpr/page25_105296.html . ja . ja:プロフィール . ja:【公式】衆議院議員 小里泰弘（おざとやすひろ） . 2023-10-21.
7. Book: 将口泰浩 . 2012 . ja:魂還り魂還り皇国護らん―沖縄に散った最後の陸軍大将牛島満の生涯 . ja . Japan . 海竜社 . 9784759312461 . 32 .
8. Book: 南日本新聞社 . 1970 . ja:郷土人系 下 . ja . Japan . 春苑堂書店 . 144-145 .