is a high school in

Nishinomiya 270px, Nishinomiya City Hall 270px, Aerial view of Nishinomiya city center 1985 270px, Hirota Shrine is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218,948 households and a population density ...

, 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 Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...

, in 1911. The school was strongly affected by the 1995

Kobe earthquake The Great Hanshin Earthquake (, ) occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 o ...

Notable alumni

Baseball players

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

Kaito Kozono is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning simply ''Profess ...

* Ryusuke Minami, 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 is a Japanese professional baseball player. He was born on June 2, 1984. He debuted in 2008. Though debuting in 2008, he has only played three years of baseball in the NPB. References Living people 1984 births People from Itami, Hyōgo N ...

* 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 Sum ...

, 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 Fukuo ...

Rugby players

* Mitsutake Hagimoto *

Atsushi Hiwasa (born 22 May 1987 in Hyogo, Japan) is a Japanese rugby union player. Hiwasa has played 28 international matches for the Japan national rugby union team. Hiwasa was a member of the Japan team at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, and played four match ...

* Yusuke Niwai

Footballers

* Hidetaka Ubagai *

Takuto Yasuoka is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Cambodian Premier League The Cambodian Premier League (, ) is a top association football division in Cambodia and administered by the Cambodian Football League Company (CFLC) ...

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 former Asia ...

, 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 Tochinowaka Michihiro (born Dae Won Lee on April 6, 1988) is a former sumo wrestler from Hyogo, Japan. His father is a Zainichi Korean and his mother is a Korean immigrant. He made his professional debut in 2007 and steadily rose through the ra ...

* Takakeishō Mitsunobu

Other

Daisuke Hosokawa (born April 18, 1982, in Amagasaki, Hyōgo) is a Japanese freestyle swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water ( ...

, 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 cosplayer, 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 continu ...

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

References

External links

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