Chiben Gakuen (智辯学園) is a private academic institution with campuses in

Nara Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the northwest, Wakayama P ...

and Wakayama Prefecture,

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. The school sends many students to the best universities and colleges in Japan, including the University of Tokyo,

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and other public and private schools. The school is well known in Japan for its baseball team, which usually participates in and frequently wins the Koshien Tournament for high school baseball.

Student exchange programs

Chiben Gakuen Wakayama participates in student exchange programs with: * St Leonard's College in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

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, and * Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in

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. Chiben Gakuen Nara participates in a student exchange program with： * Exeter High School in

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, and * Troy High School in

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.
Thomas Jefferson High School
n Denver, Colorado. The school celebrated the 20th anniversary of its exchange program with St Leonards College in November 2007, and with

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in 2013.

Notable alumni of Chiben Gakuen Junior & Senior High School

Baseball players

Nobuhiro Takashiro is a former Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of t ...

Masahiro Tanaka is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). From 2007 through 2013, he played for the Eagles in NPB. Tanaka was posted by the Eagles after the 2013 season to be si ...

Takahiro Shoda is a Japanese professional baseball player from Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan. He was with the Hanshin Tigers The Hanshin Tigers (Japanese: 阪神タイガース ''Hanshin Taigāsu'') are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the C ...

* Masato Nakamura * Taichi Okazaki * Ryuichi Kajimae *

Shintaro Masuda Shintaro Masuda (枡田慎太郎, born July 8, 1987, in Kyoto, Kyoto) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Ja ...

Kazuma Okamoto is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Yomiuri Giants of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Career He has been selected as an all-star twice, and was named the Central League Climax Series MVP in 2019. In 2020, he le ...

* Taishi Hirooka *

Ryuya Matsumoto (born April 29, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who last played for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In November 2015 he was one of three Giants players handed a penalty of indefinite disqualification ...

Others

Daniel Kahl Daniel Kahl (born March 30, 1960 in Monrovia, California) is an American foreign television personality (''gaijin tarento'') and entrepreneur in Japan. He is famous for speaking fluent Yamagata-ben, the dialect of Yamagata Prefecture, a predomina ...

, (exchange student), gaijin tarento

Notable alumni of Chiben Gakuen Wakayama

Baseball players

* Jin Nakatani * Shinichi Takeuchi * Toshiya Okada * Haruki Nishikawa * Fumiya Kurokawa

Others

Tatsuya Tanimoto is a former Japanese member of the House of Representatives of the Diet. He served as a representative of Wakayama 1st district, first as an independent politician, but after 2003 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Wakayama ...

, politician

External links

Chiben Gakuen

Chiben Gakuen Wakayama homepage
English site: * https://web.archive.org/web/20050526195823/http://www.chiben.ac.jp/wakayama/index_e.htm

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Student exchange programs

Notable alumni of Chiben Gakuen Junior & Senior High School

Baseball players

Others

Notable alumni of Chiben Gakuen Wakayama

Baseball players

Others

See also

External links