Musashi Junior & Senior High School

is a privately owned school for boys based in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan. History The school was founded in 1922 by industrialist Nezu Kaichirō, as Musashi High School. The school was one of the first institutions of its type to use a seven-year system of education, taking students up to the equivalent of the first two years of university under the current system of education. Musashi became a prototype for the modern integrated junior and senior high schools that now prevails throughout Japan. After the education reforms of 1948, the school was divided into Musashi Senior High School and Musashi Junior High School. Musashi University was founded in 1949 and forms part of the same legal entity. Admissions The school operates a highly selective admissions program attracting students from across the city. Graduates have been successful in gaining admission to many of Japan's most selective universities. The school is unusual in the fact that it has few written rules and has no uniform or required dress code; reflecting one of the school's founding principles being that it aims to produce graduates that are "individuals", "capable of independent thought and research." Notable alumni Akito Arima (1930-2020) Physicist, Minister of Education 1998–1999. Toshiro Fujita (1948–) Physician-scientist Yoshitsugu Harada (1952–) Politician Hiroshi Hoketsu (1941–) Equestrian Shinya Inoué (1921–2019) Biophysicist Ken Itō (1935–) Composer Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917–1998) Mathematician, Cole Prize Tamio Kageyama (1947–1998) Novelist Seiji Kameda (1964–) Music producer Seiji Kihara (1970–) Politician, Senior Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs 2015-NOW. Takeaki Matsumoto (1959–) Politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 2011. Hiroshi Miyazawa (1921–2012) Minister of Justice 1995–1996. Kiichi Miyazawa (1919–2007) Prime Minister 1991–1993. Taizo Nishimuro (1935–2017) CEO of Japan Post Holdings Yoshinobu Nishizaki (1934–2010) Film producer Shōichi Saba (1919–2012) former CEO of Toshiba Toshitsugu Saito (1944–) Politician, Director General of the Defense Agency 2000–2001. Isao Sasaki (1942–) Actor Masahiko Shibayama (1965–) Politician, Senior Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications 2012–2013. Tsuneo Tamagawa (1925–) Mathematician Naoki Tanaka (1940–) Minister of Defence 2012. Morikazu Toda (1917–2010) Physicist Hiroomi Umezawa (1924–1995) Physicist Eiiti Wada (1931–) Computer-scientist