Kanagawa Prefectural Yokosuka High School

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

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or school:

    “Behind one high mountain lies yet a higher one.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.”
    —Catharine R. Stimpson (b. 1936)