Japanese La Salle Academy
Private school
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La Salle Junior and Senior High School (ラ・サール中学校・高等学校, Rasāru Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō), commonly referred to as "La Salle", is a private boys' school for secondary education located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. De La Salle Brothers runs this school.
TypePrivate
Established1950
Headmaster
Domingo VillamilEnrollment220 per grade (160 are from La Salle Junior High School, the affiliate school of La Salle High School)
La Salle Senior High School
La Salle senior high school was established in Kagoshima in 1950.[1]
La Salle Junior High School
La Salle junior high school was established in 1955.[citation needed]
Notable alumni
Entertainment
- Shun Nakahara, film director
- LaSalle Ishii, actor and Owarai tarento
- Peter, openly gay actor and dancer
- Daihachi Yoshida, film director
Politics & Government
National Diet
- Kazuaki Miyaji, former member of the House of Representatives
- Koriki Jojima, 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
- Yoshihisa Furukawa, current member
- Tetsuro Nomura, member of the House of Councillors
Governors
- Yūichirō Itō, former governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
- Kōichi Shiota, current governor of Kagoshima Prefecture
- 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
- Hiroshi Nishihara, chemist
- Izumi Tabata, health scientist
- Sunao Yoshida, novelist
- Hideyuki Arata, 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.