Japanese La Salle Academy
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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. It is known as a preparatory school to enter the universities with difficult entrance exams in Japan. De La Salle Brothers runs this school.
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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.
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