Chiben Gakuen (智辯学園) is a private academic institution with campuses in
Nara Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the ...
and
Wakayama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 876,030 () and a geographic area of . Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture to ...
,
Japan
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. The school sends many students to the best universities and colleges in Japan, including the
University of Tokyo
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,
Kyoto University
, or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan.
The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...
and other public and private schools.
The school is well known in Japan for its baseball team, which usually participates in and frequently wins the
Koshien Tournament for high school baseball.
Student exchange programs
Chiben Gakuen Wakayama participates in student exchange programs with:
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St Leonard's College in
Melbourne
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,
Victoria (Australia)
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, and
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Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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in
Alexandria, Virginia
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.
Chiben Gakuen Nara participates in a student exchange program with：
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Exeter High School in
Exeter, New Hampshire
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, and
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Troy High School in
Troy, Michigan
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.
Thomas Jefferson High Schooln Denver, Colorado.
The school celebrated the 20th anniversary of its exchange program with
St Leonards College in November 2007, and with
Thomas Jefferson
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in 2013.
Notable alumni of Chiben Gakuen Junior & Senior High School
Baseball players
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Nobuhiro Takashiro
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Masahiro Tanaka
is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
From ...
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Takahiro Shoda
is a Japanese professional baseball player from Sakurai, Nara Prefecture, Japan. He was with the Hanshin Tigers
The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League. The team is based in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, ...
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Masato Nakamura
is a Japanese musician, bass guitarist, and record producer. He is a member of the J-pop band Dreams Come True, which was formed in 1988 and went on to sell over 50million CDs. He also composed the soundtracks for the video games ''Sonic the ...
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Taichi Okazaki
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Ryuichi Kajimae
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Shintaro Masuda
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Kazuma Okamoto
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Taishi Hirooka
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Ryuya Matsumoto
(born April 29, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who last played for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In November 2015 he was one of three Giants players handed a penalty of indefinite disqualification ...
Others
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Daniel Kahl, (exchange student), gaijin tarento
Notable alumni of Chiben Gakuen Wakayama
Baseball players
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Jin Nakatani
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Shinichi Takeuchi
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Toshiya Okada
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Haruki Nishikawa
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Fumiya Kurokawa
Others
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Tatsuya Tanimoto
is a former Japanese member of the House of Representatives of the Diet. He served as a representative of Wakayama 1st district, first as an independent politician, but after 2003 as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Wakayam ...
, politician
See also
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List of schools in Japan
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Chiben Gakuen Wakayama (Japanese Wikipedia)
External links
Chiben GakuenChiben Gakuen Wakayama homepageEnglish site:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20050526195823/http://www.chiben.ac.jp/wakayama/index_e.htm
{{coord missing, Nara Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture
Private schools in Japan