Saga Prefectural Chienkan Junior & Senior High School is both a junior and senior high school and is located in

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, Saga Prefecture,

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History

Chienkan High School is made up of two schools: * Chienkan Senior High School * Cheinkan Junior High School

Chienkan Senior High School

On March 27, 1987, the site for Chienkan was purchased from the Saga Prefectural Estate Development Public Corporation. Building of the school was completed in March 1988 and the school was officially established on April 1, 1988. On April 8, Chienkan celebrated its opening and entrance ceremony. The first principal of Chienkan was Mr. Uchikawa Kazumi¹.

Chienkan Junior High School

Chienkan Junior High School was established on December 1, 2002. Mr. Morinaga Kazuo was appointed as the first principal. The official opening of Chienkan J.H.S. was on April 1, 2003.

School name

In the years preceding the Meiji Restoration, Japan was populated by a multitude of clans. Within this

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, the

Saga Clan is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Nabeshima", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p.38 retrieved 2013-5-5. History The clan controlled Saga Do ...

prospered. Its people set up a number of schools to lead the way in the great changes that would soon sweep Japan. One of these schools was called "Chienkan". In 1867, Nabeshima Naomasa, lord of the Saga Clan, founded Chienkan in Nagasaki. Nabeshima's graduates played an important role in the political and economic backdrop to the Meiji revolution, and considered it their urgent business to implement Western thoughts and sciences in Japan. So the original Chienkan School became a place for progressive Western learning, especially that of the English language. Many ambitious young people were drawn to this exciting academic center, where they studied subjects from technology to economics to legislation.

School badge

The Kanji, 高, at the center of the school badge means a senior high school and the five redial C's around it are the initials of "Cultivate", "Create", "Challenge", "Character" and "Cosmopolitanism".

Alumni

References

1. Saga Prefectural Chienkan Senior High School (Prospectus): ''General Survey of Chienkan'', 2006 (History & School Name) {{DEFAULTSORT:Saga Prefectural Chienkan Junior and Senior High School High schools in Saga Prefecture Schools in Saga Prefecture Educational institutions established in 1988 1988 establishments in Japan