, referred to as "La Salle" by most, is a private boys' school for secondary education located in Kagoshima,

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

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. It is known as a preparatory school to enter the universities with difficult entrance exams in Japan.

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runs this school.

La Salle Senior High School

La Salle senior high school was established in Kagoshima in 1950.

La Salle Junior High School

La Salle junior high school was established in 1955.

Notable alumni

Entertainment

* Shun Nakahara, film director * LaSalle Ishii, actor and

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* Peter, openly gay actor and dancer * Daihachi Yoshida, film director

Politics & Government

National Diet

* Kazuaki Miyaji, former member of the House of Representatives *

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, former member * Takeshi Iwaya, current member and former Minister of Defense * Yasushi Furukawa, current member of former governor of Saga Prefecture * Hiroshi Kawauchi, former member *

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, current member *

Tetsuro Nomura is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan, Diet (national legislature). A native of Hayato, Kagoshima and high school graduate, he was elec ...

, member of the House of Councillors

Governors

Yūichirō Itō is a Japanese politician and former governor of Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic ...

, former governor of

* Kōichi Shiota, current governor of

* Yoshinori Yamaguchi, current governor of Saga Prefecture

Other

* Nariaki Nakayama, leader of Kibō no Tō * Hiroshi Maruyama, current ambassador to Estonia and Finland

Science & Culture

* Masazumi Harada, medical researcher *

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, chemist * Izumi Tabata, health scientist *

Sunao Yoshida Sunao Matsumoto (October 24, 1969 – July 15, 2004), known professionally as Sunao Yoshida (吉田直 ''Yoshida Sunao''), was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and graduated from La Salle Junior and Senior High School in Kag ...

, novelist *

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, engineer

In popular culture

* Riku Onda's 2000 novel ''Neverland'' and its 2001 TBS adaptation are implied to be set at La Salle. *An NHK documentary entitled Wakamonotachi wa Ima was shot at the school from 1974 to 1978.

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.lasalle.ed.jp/index.html Educational institutions established in 1950 High schools in Kagoshima Prefecture Private schools in Japan Catholic secondary schools in Japan