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Niiza, Saitama is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 166,208 in 76,639 households and a population density of 7300 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Geography Niiza is located at the southernmost tip o ...

, Japan, established in 1965. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1875.

Atomi Junior College

was a

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in Bunkyo Ward, in

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. It was founded in 1950 and closed in 2007. It teaches Japanese, English and life art.

Alumni

Kanoko Okamoto , born , was the pen-name of a Japanese author, Waka (poetry), tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar active during the Taishō period, Taishō and early Shōwa period, Shōwa periods of Japan. Early life Kanoko's maiden name was Ōnuki Kano. She was bo ...

, a novelist *

Michiko Yamamoto is the professional name of , a List of Japanese women writers, Japanese writer and poet. Yamamoto has won the Shincho Prize for New Writers, the Akutagawa Prize, and the Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature. Biography Yamamoto was born in Nakano, ...

, a novelist *

Kyōko Okazaki is a Japanese manga artist. Okazaki often focuses on urban Japanese life in Tokyo from the 1980s and 1990s. Okazaki's characters are bold and freewheeling, holding unconventional sets of values. Her writings are often studded with modern jargo ...

, a manga artist

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