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Hiroshima City is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...

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Hiroshima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama ...

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. The school was established by the

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History

In 1956 the

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established this as its third junior-senior high school in Japan. The school follows the broad objectives of Ignatian pedagogy, personal care for each student as an individual, and teamwork. It pursues the objective of training "men for and with others."

Activities

The mountaineering club has done well in national tournaments and won the inter-high crown in 2007 and 2008. Other national prize-winning clubs at the school are for chemistry, computer programming (2008), and for

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. Also, in 2013 four medalists from the school brought home the gold medal from the International Biology Olympiad in Switzerland, where 240 students from 62 countries or regions worldwide participated.

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Jesuit secondary schools in Japan Schools in Hiroshima Prefecture Educational institutions established in 1956 1956 establishments in Japan

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