Horikoshi High School - A popstars birthplace
19.08.07
Today I want to talk about a school Horikoshi High School or 堀越高等学校, a private school institution located in Tokyo’s Nakano district (中野区). What is so special and popular about this school is that this school has many Japanese popular stars and sportsman study in it. Well, I will focus more about the pop stars in this post.
Why this school has a lot of famous artists, idols in it because this school has provided the special courses that specially targeted to them which called as “TRAIT” aka Entertainment Course. This course offers much more flexibility and wider range of classes to make them study more. As you know, in Japanese, many stars come out in very early ages, they have to work and study at the same time. It is hard for them to balance both so they enrolled to this school.
Below are some of the names of popular stars that I know:
Male
- Yamashita Tomohisa (山下智久)
- Matsumoto Jun (松本潤)
- Teppei Koike (小池徹平)
- Tanaka Koki
- Ikuta Toma (生田斗真)
- Fujiwara Tatsuya (田中聖)
- Dohmoto Tsuyoshi (堂本剛)
- Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (草彅剛)etc.
Female
- Ayase Haruka (綾瀬はるか)
- Aoi Yuu (蒼井優)
- Nagasawa Masami (長澤まさみ)
- Kyoko Fukada (深田恭子)
- Saeko (サエコ)
- Sowelu
- Ayumi Hamasaki (濱崎步)
- Aya Ueto (上戶彩) etc.
Wow, actually there’s a lot Johnny’s member in it. Can’t believe my idol Ayumi Hamasaki was study before in this school too haha. That’s all. Hope you enjoy reading this article :D.
Credits: Japanese Wiki | Chinese Wiki
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Hey~ XD I was searching for some info on Horikoshi High School and came across this blog XD I’ve read a few other entries as well~ I checked out the Japanese wiki link .. And uwaaa SO MANY JOHNNY’S IN IT O_O” *coughs* sorry *coughs* overexcited XD as you can probably guess, I’m a big Johnny’s fan ~ (actually NEWS but still =.=) ~ Hmm I read your other entry on the Bon Odori festival. Maybe I should’ve gone *regret*~ Ah well, that’s all for now~ Bye bye~
August 25th, 2007 at 6:45 pmXD
July 4th, 2008 at 10:12 pmthanks for the info, dude.
but…this 2008…
didn’t Takaki Yuya and Yabu Kota already graduated??
I understand how you felt snowflakez
NewS is my favorite johnny’s group too. And Fuji-chan, I’m not very sure about both of them…
July 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pmne…i kow taiyou-san [former member of ya-ya-yah] is class president here…and is classmates with yaotome hikaru-san of hey!say!jump…and ne. arioka daiki-san also studies here from what i know…
July 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm