Tokyo First Middle School
| Hibiya High School | |
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Nagata-chō, Chiyoda, Tokyo Japan
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1878 |
| School district | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education |
| Principal | Naoomi Nagasawa (長澤直臣 Nagasawa Naoomi?) |
| Website | http://www.hibiya-h.metro.tokyo.jp/ |
Coordinates: 35°42′55″N 139°45′08″E / 35.71529°N 139.75227°E Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School (東京都立日比谷高等学校 Tōkyō Toritsu Hibiya Kōtōgakkō?) is a Japanese high school founded in 1878 as the Tokyo First Middle School or Tokyo First Junior High School (東京府立第一中学校 Tōkyō Furitsu Daiichi Chūgakkō?). It was well known in the 1950s and 1960s for the large proportion of graduates who gained admission to the prestigious University of Tokyo; though it suffered a decline in the 1970s, as of 2005 it was once again being referred to as the "best public high school in Japan".
Tokyo First Middle School was established on 26 September 1878 in Tokyo's Hongō-ku; soon after, it moved to Kanda-ku, and moved several more times in the next two decades. Its establishment was the result of the Meiji Restoration drive to modernise the model of education in order to catch up with Western Europe and the United States.The Meiji era government and Tokyo Imperial University requested the thickened as a part route to Tokyo Imperial University though Tokyo First did not lay weight at first on the side of going on to school.
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