is a secondary school located in

Fukuoka is the sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center of international commerce since ancie ...

, on the

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island of

Kyushu is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...

. The school's Department for International Education is well known for its Tsuzuki International Scholarship/Exchange Program which allows Japanese and overseas students to live and study alongside each other in the Fukuoka Daiichi High School Guest House. The establishment of the school was approved by

Fukuoka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...

in April 1956. The is a

scholarship A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education. Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need. Scholarsh ...

allowing

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

students to live and study alongside Japanese students in the Fukuoka Daiichi High School Guest House for girls, and Troubadour for boys, a dormitory primarily for the baseballers, in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The program is administered by the Department for International Education of the Fukuoka Daiichi High School.

Notable alumni

Chage Chage (born 6 January 1958, in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese musician and radio personality. His real name is . He dropped out from Japan University of Economics. He changes his name from , CHAGE (1989 to 2008), a ...

Tatsunori Fujie is a Japanese former professional basketball player who last played for the Iwate Big Bulls of the B.League in Japan. He was selected by the Toyama Grouses with the 4th overall pick in the 2012 bj League draft. On August 16, 2016, Fujie signed ...

* Naoko Hayashiba * Seiji Ikaruga * Daiki Kanei * Yusuke Karino * Yukinaga Maeda *

Seiji Matsuyama is a Japanese manga artist from Fukuoka Prefecture. He is known for drawing many works featuring women with extremely large breasts, and he himself refers to himself as a "boobie manga artist" in his ''doujinshi'' and other publications. He is mar ...

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* Narito Namizato *

Dai-Kang Yang Dai-Kang Yang (, a.k.a. ; born January 17, 1987, Taitung City, Taitung County, Taiwan; previously known as ''Yang Chung-shou'' or ''Chung-Shou Yang'' 陽仲壽) is a Taiwanese professional baseball outfielder for the Lake Country DockHounds of ...

References

External links

* {{Official website High schools in Fukuoka Prefecture Fukuoka Educational institutions established in 1956 Schools in Fukuoka Prefecture 1956 establishments in Japan