Asaka High School

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Fukushima Prefectural Asaka High School (福島県立安積高等学校, Fukushima-ken Ritsu Asaka Kōtō Gakkō^?), abbreviated as Anko (安高, Ankō^?), is the regionally prestagious prefectural high school in Koriyama city, Fukushima, Japan. It was founded on September 11, 1884, originally as Fukushima Junior High School. After being renamed Asaka Junior High School in 1948, it was changed into high school due to the restruction in Japanese education system on April 1, 1948.

Asaka High School had been kept as a boys' school for long time, but recently it became coeducational. Simultaneously, it abolished its rule urging students to wear school uniform.

The old building, which had been formaly used as the main building of former Fukushima ordinary junior high school Fukushima Jinjo Chugakko (福島尋常中学校, Fukushima Jinjō Chūgakkō^?), is conserved in the front of its site, as Asaka history museum. It was designated to a governmental cultural heritage in 1977.

Asaka High School has made a point of "Frontier Sprit", "Literary and Military arts" and "Spartan".^[1]

Now it is in rivalry with Fukushima High School and Iwaki High School.

[edit] References

• (Japanese) Official Asaka High School homepage

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Asaka High School Management Plan (pdf). (Japanese). Retrieved on 2007-02-06.