Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School (神奈川県立横須賀高等学校, Kanagawa Kenritsu Yokosuka Kōtō Gakkō?) is a high school in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture Japan, founded in 1907. The school is operated by the Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education. As of 2006 the principal was Minoru Yamukai (矢向 實 Yamukai Minoru).
Notable alumni include:
- Politician Junichiro Koizumi, Former Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
- Physicist Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel Prize winner 2002
- Actor Yōsuke Kubozuka, dropout
- Actor Shunsuke Kubozuka, younger brother of Yosuke Kubozuka
- Judoka Isao Inokuma, Tokyo Olympic Gold Medalist
- Football player Hiroyuki Sakashita
- Climatologist Atsumu Ohmura
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“As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts, she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)