Hōtoku Gakuen High School (報徳学園) is a high school in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The school has a sports program which has produced a number of professional baseball players.[citation needed] It was founded as the Hōtoku Business School in Mikage, Kobe, in 1911. The school was strongly affected by the 1995 Kobe earthquake.[2]
| Hōtoku Gakuen High School 報徳学園高等学校 | |
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| Type | Comprehensive high school |
| Motto | 以徳報徳[1] (To requite virtue with the virtue) |
| Established | 1911 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Last updated: July 2017 | |
Notable alumni
editBaseball players
edit- Hiroshi Katayama
- Kaito Kozono
- Ryusuke Minami, NPB outfielder
- Makoto Moriyama
- Tomohisa Otani
- Masaya Ozaki
- Naoki Satoh
- Naoyuki Shimizu, NPB pitcher
- Katsuki Yamazaki
Rugby players
editFootballers
editAthletics
edit- Koji Ito, track and field sprinter
- Kensuke Takezawa, long-distance runner
Sumo wrestlers
editOther
edit- Daisuke Hosokawa, swimmer
- Mirai Moriyama, actor
- Yuichiro Nagashima, martial artist
- Tsukasa Nakano, basketball player[3]
- Atom Shukugawa, comedian
References
edit- ^ HOTOKU GAKUEN SINCE 1911(in Japanese)
- ^ "Japanese Baseball and the Aftermath of the Kobe Earthquake in 1995". Misc. Baseball. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ "B.league 2019-20 Season レバンガ北海道 #7中野司選手 契約合意のお知らせ".
External links
edit- Official website (in Japanese)
- Hōtoku Gakuen pamphlet (English language PDF]
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