, abbreviated as , is the regionally prestagious prefectural high school in Koriyama city, Fukushima

Fukushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Fukushima.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Fukushima prefecture was known as Mutsu Province....

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. It was founded on September 11, 1884, originally as Fukushima Junior High School. After being renamed Asaka Junior High School in 1948, it was changed into a high school due to the restructing in the Japanese education system on April 1, 1948.
Asaka High School had been kept as a boys' school for long time, but recently it became coeducational. Simultaneously, it abolished its rule urging students to wear school uniform

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The old building, which had been formerly used as the main building of former Fukushima ordinary junior high school , is conserved in the front of its site, as Asaka history museum. It was designated as a governmental cultural heritage in 1977.

Asaka High School has made a point of "Frontier Sprit", "Literary and Military arts" and "Spartan".

Now it is has a rivalry with Fukushima High School and Iwaki High School.

Notable alumni

• Hiroyuki Arai
  Hiroyuki Arai
  is a Japanese politician, an independent and member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Tamura, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he had served in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture for one term since 1987. He was elected to House of Representatives for the first time...
  
  
• Kwan-Ichi Asakawa
• Kōichirō Gemba
• Toru Iwaya
  Toru Iwaya
  is a Japanese mezzotint engraver and painter.-Biography:Born in Koriyama, Japan in 1936 as the last child of Iwaya Kanekichi and Kageyama Matsu, Toru Iwaya went, at the age of 19, to Tokyo...
  
  
• Masao Kume
• Nakayama Gishu
  Nakayama Gishu
  was the pen-name of a Japanese writer active in Showa period Japan. His real name was Takama Yoshihide.-Early life:Gishū was born in what is now Shirakawa city, Fukushima Prefecture, and was a graduate of Waseda University...
  
  
• Teruhiko Mashiko
  Teruhiko Mashiko
  is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet . A native of Kōriyama, Fukushima and graduate of Waseda University, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 1986 after serving in the assembly of Fukushima Prefecture for...
  
  
• Takumi Nemoto
  Takumi Nemoto
  is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party , a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet . A native of Kōriyama, Fukushima and graduate of the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Construction in 1974...
  
  
• Eisaku Satō (governor)
  Eisaku Satō (governor)
  was the governor of Fukushima Prefecture of Japan from 1988 and 2006.He was initially an enthusiastic supporter of nuclear power, swayed like his predecessors after the government and Tepco brought his prefecture jobs, subsidies and a chance to contribute to the national good. In 1998 he...
  
  
• Shinzo Shinjo
  Shinzo Shinjo
  was a Japanese academic, physicist, astronomer and president of Kyoto University.-Biography:Shinjo was born in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, in 1873. He graduated from Department of Physics at Imperial College of Science in 1895 and in 1897 started teaching at a Military Engineering School. In 1900 he...
  
  
• Takayama Chogyū
  Takayama Chogyu
  , real name Takayama Rinjirō, was a Japanese author and literary critic. He profoundly influenced Japanese literature in the late Meiji period with his blend of romantic individualism, concepts of self-realization, aesthetics, and nationalism...
  
  
• Toshio Tamogami
  Toshio Tamogami
  was the chief of staff of Japan's Air Self-Defense Force from March 2007 to November 2008.-Career and retirement:Tamogami was dismissed with a 60 million yen allowance due to an essay he published on October 31, 2008, arguing that "it is a false accusation to say was an aggressor nation" during...
  
  
• Joji Yuasa
  Joji Yuasa
  is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Born in Kōriyama, Fukushima, he is self-taught as a composer.In 1951 or 1952, together with the composer Tōru Takemitsu and other contemporary artists and musicians, he founded Jikken Kobo , an organization dedicated to the...