Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School

Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School (福島県立安積高等学校, Fukushima-ken Ritsu Asaka Kōtō Gakkō^?), abbreviated as Anko (安高, Ankō^?), is the regionally prestagious prefectural high school in Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan. It was founded on September 11, 1884, originally as Fukushima Junior High School. After being renamed Asaka Junior High School in 1948, it was changed into a high school due to the restructing in the Japanese education system on April 1, 1948. Asaka High School had been kept as a boys' school for long time, but recently it became coeducational. Simultaneously, it abolished its rule urging students to wear school uniform.

The old building, which had been formerly used as the main building of former Fukushima ordinary junior high school Fukushima-ken Jinjo Chugakko (福島県尋常中学校, Fukushima-ken Jinjō Chūgakkō^?), is conserved in the front of its site, as Asaka history museum. It was designated as a governmental cultural heritage in 1977.

Asaka High School has made a point of "Frontier Sprit", "Literary and Military arts" and "Spartan".^[1]

Now it is has a rivalry with Fukushima High School and Iwaki High School.

Notable alumni

• Hiroyuki Arai
• Kwan-Ichi Asakawa^[2]
• Kōichirō Gemba
• Toru Iwaya
• Masao Kume
• Nakayama Gishu
• Teruhiko Mashiko
• Takumi Nemoto
• Eisaku Satō (governor)
• Shinzo Shinjo
• Takayama Chogyū
• Toshio Tamogami
• Joji Yuasa

References

• (Japanese) Official Asaka High School homepage

Notes

1. ^ "Asaka High School Management Plan" (pdf). (Japanese). http://www.asaka-h.fks.ed.jp/hogosya/H18unnei.pdf. Retrieved 2007-02-06. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "FSP in Japan 7/27-8/2 Volume 3". Dartmouth College. 1998. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~japanfsp/1998/fsp_1998/fsp14.html. Retrieved 2008-10-16.