is a high school in

Nishinomiya 270px, Nishinomiya City Hall 270px, Aerial view of Nishinomiya city center 270px, Hirota Shrine is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218948 households and a population density of ...

, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The school has a sports program which has produced a number of professional baseball players. It was founded as the Hōtoku Business School in Mikage, Kobe, in 1911. The school was strongly affected by the 1995

Kobe earthquake The , or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and h ...

Notable alumni

Baseball players

Hiroshi Katayama is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. His father Yutaka Katayama was the former president of Nissan USA. Club career Katayama was born in Meguro, Tokyo on May 28, 1940. After graduating from Keio University, ...

* Kaito Kozono *

Ryusuke Minami Ryusuke Minami (南竜介, born July 9, 1981, in Nishinomiya) is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Yokohama BayStars in 2004 and 2005 and the Chiba Lotte Marines The ...

, NPB outfielder * Makoto Moriyama *

Tomohisa Otani Tomohisa Ōtani (大谷智久, born February 14, 1985, in Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who is currently a coach for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in his entir ...

* Masaya Ozaki * Naoki Satoh *

Naoyuki Shimizu , nicknamed "Nao", is a former professional baseball player from Kyoto, Japan. He is a starting pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. Career He attended Hōtoku Gakuen High School. He joined the Japanese Olympic baseball team for the 2004 S ...

, NPB pitcher *

Katsuki Yamazaki Katsuki Yamazaki (山崎勝己, born August 16, 1982) is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks / Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Orix Buffaloes. Career Fukuok ...

Rugby players

* Mitsutake Hagimoto * Atsushi Hiwasa *

Yusuke Niwai is a Japanese international rugby union player who plays as a Hooker. He currently plays for in Super Rugby and Canon Eagles The Yokohama Canon Eagles is a Japanese rugby union team founded in 1981 that competes in the Japan Rugby League ...

Footballers

* Yoshiyuki Okumura * Hidetaka Ubagai * Takuto Yasuoka

Athletics

Koji Ito is a retired Japanese track and field sprinter and Japan's fourth-fastest record holder of 100m sprint with a time of 10.00 seconds. He held the 100 metres Japanese national record between December 1998 and September 2017. He is a ...

, track and field sprinter *

Kensuke Takezawa is a Japanese professional long-distance runner. He attended Waseda University in Tokyo. His international debut came at the 2006 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Fukuoka, where he was 49th in the men's long race.

, long-distance runner

Sumo wrestlers

* Tochinowaka Michihiro *

Takakeishō Mitsunobu is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Ashiya, Hyōgo. He made his professional debut in November 2014, and reached the highest ''makuuchi'' division in January 2017 after 14 tournaments. He won his first championship in the top division i ...

Other

* Daisuke Hosokawa, swimmer *

Mirai Moriyama is a Japanese actor and dancer. Life and career Moriyama started training in dance when he was 5 years old. He trained in jazz dance, tap dance, ballet and hip-hop, and he appeared in several stage roles. He officially made his stage debut with ...

, actor *

Yuichiro Nagashima is a Japanese retired kickboxer, mixed martial artist, known for his career in K-1. Biography Yuichiro Nagashima was born in 1984 in the city of Nishinomiya, Hyogo. He started learning Judo when he was an elementary school. He continued training ...

, martial artist * Tsukasa Nakano, basketball player * Atom Shukugawa, comedian

References

External links

*
Hōtoku Gakuen pamphlet
(English language PDF] High schools in Hyōgo Prefecture 1911 establishments in Japan Schools in Hyōgo Prefecture {{Japan-school-stub