Akita High School
Akita High School is a high school in the city of Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Akita High is the oldest and first high school in the prefecture and one of the earliest pre-World War II middle schools in Japan.
School activities
Athletics
Baseball
Runners-up, Japanese High School Baseball Championship in 1915.Basketball
Won Japanese championship in 1936.Mountaineering
3-time runners-up, Inter-High School ChampionshipsJudo
Japanese champions in 1931, runners-up in 1938.Kendo
2-time Japanese champions in 1967 and 1968.Notable alumni
- Shigeki Abe - baseball player
- Yasushi Akashi - United Nations administrator.
- Sasagu Arai - researcher of early Christianity
- Shirō Fukai - composer
- Kenzo Futaki - doctor
- Eiji Gotō - admiral
- Mitsutaka Goto- baseball player
- Hiroo Ishii - baseball player
- Shun-ichi Iwasaki - engineer
- Katsutoshi Kaneda - politician
- Kazuo Koike - manga writer
- Machida Chūji - politician
- Kazuo Nakamura (basketball) - head coach
- Shōji Nishimura - admiral
- Hitoshi Okuda - manga artist
- Taro Shoji - singer
- Sukenari Yokoyama - politician