is a high school in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. The school has a sports program which has produced a number of professional baseball players. It was founded as the Hōtoku Business School in Mikage, Kobe, in 1911. The school was strongly affected by the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
Notable alumni Baseball players Hiroshi Katayama Kaito Kozono Ryusuke Minami, NPB outfielder Makoto Moriyama Tomohisa Otani Masaya Ozaki Naoki Satoh Naoyuki Shimizu, NPB pitcher Katsuki Yamazaki Rugby players Mitsutake Hagimoto Atsushi Hiwasa Yusuke Niwai Footballers Hidetaka Ubagai Takuto Yasuoka Athletics Koji Ito, track and field sprinter Kensuke Takezawa, long-distance runner Sumo wrestlers Tochinowaka Michihiro Takakeishō Mitsunobu Other Daisuke Hosokawa, swimmer Mirai Moriyama, actor Yuichiro Nagashima, martial artist Tsukasa Nakano, basketball player Atom Shukugawa, comedian
References
External links
Hōtoku Gakuen pamphlet (English language PDF]