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in the city of

Gifu is a city located in the south-central portion of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and serves as the prefectural capital. The city has played an important role in Japan's history because of its location in the middle of the country. During the Sengoku ...

Gifu Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,991,390 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture to the northwest, F ...

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 ...

. Named after the 7th-century

Prince Shōtoku , also known as or , was a semi-legendary regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko. He was the son of Emperor Yōmei and his consort, Princess Anahobe no Hashihito, who was also Yōmei's younger half-s ...

, the school was founded in 1972 as the and adopted the present name in 1998. Its name is sometimes abbreviated to Shōtoku (聖徳) or Gishōdai (岐聖大). It has main campuses in both Gifu and nearby Hashima, as well as a junior college campus in Gifu.

Faculty

Teachers have included: *

Akira Komoto __NOTOC__ is a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air. Born Masaaki Komoto (, ''Komoto Masaaki'') in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935,Mihashi Junko (), "Nomoto Akira", ...

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