Hōtoku Gakuen High School
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. It was founded as the Hōtoku Business School in Mikage, Kobe, in 1911. The school was strongly affected by the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
Notable alumni
Baseball players
- Hiroshi Katayama
- Kaito Kozono
- Ryusuke Minami, NPB outfielder
- Makoto Moriyama
- Tomohisa Otani
- Masaya Ozaki
- Naoki Satoh
- Naoyuki Shimizu, NPB pitcher
- Katsuki Yamazaki
Rugby players
Footballers
Athletics
- Koji Ito, track and field sprinter
- Kensuke Takezawa, long-distance runner
Sumo wrestlers
Other
- Daisuke Hosokawa, swimmer
- Mirai Moriyama, actor
- Yuichiro Nagashima, martial artist
- Tsukasa Nakano, basketball player
- Atom Shukugawa, comedian
References
- ^ 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
- Official website (in Japanese)
- Hōtoku Gakuen pamphlet (English language PDF]
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