Shudo Junior and Senior High School (修道中学校・修道高等学校) is a university-preparatory school for boys located in Hiroshima City. It is one of the oldest high schools in Japan, with a history of over 290 years. The school was founded within the Hiroshima Castle by the Fifth Lord of Hiroshima Domain (広島藩), Yoshinaga Asano, in 1725. Shudo was originally the Domain School (藩校) teaching sons of samurais in the feudal domain, but was changed to a private school by the Twelfth Lord, Nagakoto Asano, in 1878. The school, students and teachers suffered severely from the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima City in 1945.
Shudo is known as one of the prestigious schools in Japan. Shudo has educated generations of Japanese statesmen, bureaucrats, artists, professors, businessmen and athletes including Tomosaburo Kato, 12th Prime Minister of Japan, and Kōji Kikkawa, rock musician and actor.
Football, swimming and climbing teams of the school have won the All Japan High School Championships several times. Shogi (Japanese chess) and Shodo (Japanese calligraphy) teams also have become the national champions.
Notable alumni
Tomosaburo Kato, 12th Prime Minister of Japan, Admiral of the Fleet
Shizuka Kamei, Minister of Exports and Minister of Construction
Tetsuo Saito, Minister of Environment
Seizō Kobayashi, Minister of State, Governor-General of Taiwan, Commander of the Combined Fleet
Masaaki Fujita, President of the House of Councillors
Keizō Nozaki, Attorney General, Member of the House of Lords
Yūzan Fujita, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
Sukeyuki Ban, Mayor of Hiroshima City
Setsuo Yamada, Mayor of Hiroshima City
Takeshi Araki, Mayor of Hiroshima City
Tadashi Satō, Mayor of Hiroshima City
Daisuke Matsumoto, Member of the House of Representatives
Yoshitake Masuhara, Member of the House of Representatives
San'yō Rai, Confucianist philosopher, historian, artist and poet
Hakaru Masumoto, Physicist, pioneer in metal and alloy research
Akinori Noma, Physiologist, discoverer of ATP-sensitive potassium channel
Yoshiaki Yoshimi, historian
Kazuo Tsukuda, CEO of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Kōhei Matsuda, CEO of Mazda
Kazuyoshi Kino, Buddhist scholar
Ikuo Hirayama, Traditional Japanese-style painter
Sōkei Ueda, 16th grand master of Ueda Sōko-ryū tea ceremony school
Minoru Sasaki, Lieutenant-General of Imperial Army, commander at Battle of New Georgia
Yōzō Kaneko, Major-General of Imperial Navy, founder of Imperial Navy Air Service
Kenji Fukui, Television announcer
Kazuhiko Yukawa, screenwriter
Daisuke Nishio, Animator and director
Keiichi Nanba, Anime voice actor
Kōji Kikkawa, Rock musician and actor
Tobi, Singer, composer and lyricist of Les Romanesques
Tatsugo Kawaishi, Olympic swimming medalist dead in the Battle of Iwo Jima
Kentaro Kawatsu, Olympic swimming medalist
Tsutomu Ōyokota, Olympic swimming medalist
Hiroshi Nagata, Olympic medalist of field hockey
Takaji Mori, Olympic football medalist
Ryota Yamagata, Olympic medalist of sprint relay
Yukio Shimomura, Football player, member of Olympic national team