Tsurumaru High School

Kagoshima Prefectural Tsurumaru Senior High School (鹿児島県立鶴丸高等学校) is an upper secondary school in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is a co-educational public school.

Overview
Before the school system was reformed after World War II, this school used to be known as Kagoshima Prefectural Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School (鹿児島県立第一鹿児島中学校) and Kagoshima Prefectural Daiichi Girls’ High School (鹿児島県立第一高等女学校). Those schools became Tsurumaru High School in 1949. Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School was established in 1894 as and the year is Tsurumaru's founding year.

This high school's name is derived from Kagoshima Castle also called Tsurumaru Castle. After World War II, the Seventh Higher School Zoshikan (第七高等学校造士館) on the former site of Tsurumaru Castle was closed because of the educational reform in occupied Japan. People named the successor of Daiichi-Kagoshima Middle School "Tsurumaru" after the site of the Seventh Higher School because they missed it. The school emblem features a crane spreading its wings because Tsuru (鶴) means a crane in Japanese.

Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School is the rival school.

Notable alumni

 * Politics and Government
 * Shigenori Tōgō - diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Colonial Affairs
 * Kokichi Shimoinaba - Superintendent General of Japanese police, member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
 * Hiroko Ōta - economist, Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy
 * Minoru Yanagida - member of the National Diet, Minister of Justice
 * Yasuhiro Ozato - member of the National Diet
 * Takashi Uto - member of the National Diet
 * Naokuni Nomura - admiral, Minister of Navy
 * Mitsuru Ushijima - general
 * Masafumi Arima - admiral
 * Academic
 * Hiroshi Enatsu - theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at Ritsumeikan University
 * Culture
 * Kawataro Nakajima - literary critic, Chairman of Mystery Writers of Japan, Professor Emeritus at Wayo Women's University, Mystery Writers of Japan Award, Japan Mystery Literature Award

Surrounding area

 * Kagoshima-Chūō Station
 * Amu Plaza Kagoshima and Amuran Ferris wheel
 * Kagoshima High School
 * Kagoshima Museum of Environment
 * Kagoshima Arena