Saga Prefectural Chienkan Junior & Senior High School

Saga Prefectural Chienkan Junior & Senior High School
Saga Prefectural Chienkan High School front view
Location
Saga City , Saga Prefecture Japan
Information
Type	Secondary
Motto	Cultivate, Create, Challenge
Established	1987 (Shōwa 63)
Principal	Yoshiaki Mizokami
Website	http://www3.saga-ed.jp/chien-hs/index.htm

Saga Prefectural Chienkan Junior & Senior High School is both a junior and senior high school and is located in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It was awarded the title of Super Science High School in Japan.

History

Chienkan High School is made up of two schools:

• Chienkan Senior High School
• Cheinkan Junior High School

Chienkan Senior High School

On March 27, 1987, the site for Chienkan was purchased from the Saga Prefectural Estate Development Public Corporation. Building of the school was completed in March 1988 and the school was officially established on April 1, 1988. On April 8, Chienkan celebrated its opening and entrance ceremony. The first principal of Chienkan was Mr. Uchikawa Kazumi¹.

Chienkan Junior High School

Chienkan Junior High School was established on December 1, 2002. Mr. Morinaga Kazuo was appointed as the first principal. The official opening of Chienkan J.H.S. was on April 1, 2003.

School name

In the years preceding the Meiji Restoration, Japan was populated by a multitude of clans. Within this feudal society, the Saga Clan prospered. Its people set up a number of schools to lead the way in the great changes that would soon sweep Japan.

One of these schools was called "Chienkan". In 1867, Nabeshima Naomasa, lord of the Saga Clan, founded Chienkan in Nagasaki. Nabeshima's graduates played an important role in the political and economic backdrop to the Meiji revolution, and considered it their urgent business to implement Western thoughts and sciences in Japan.

So the original Chienkan School became a place for progressive Western learning, especially that of the English language. Many ambitious young people were drawn to this exciting academic center, where they studied subjects from technology to economics to legislation.

School badge

The Kanji, 高, at the center of the school badge means a senior high school and the five redial C's around it are the initials of "Cultivate", "Create", "Challenge", "Character" and "Cosmopolitanism".

See also

• List of high schools in Japan

References

1. Saga Prefectural Chienkan Senior High School (Prospectus): General Survey of Chienkan, 2006 (History & School Name)