Osaka Tōin Senior High School was founded as the Daitō campus of Osaka Sangyo University Senior High School in 1983, during a period of rapid increase in the number of high school students in Japan. The school commenced with 150 students enrolled in two streams; a regular course and dedicated physical education course.[1] The school became independent from Osaka Sangyo University Senior High School in 1988 and an integrated junior high school was opened in 1995.[1]
Streams
Senior high school
Stream I
For students aiming at entering Tokyo University, Kyoto University, or the medical school of other national universities. From second year students focus on either science or arts.[2] Students progressing from Osaka Toin Junior High School generally enter stream I.[3]
Stream II
For students aiming at entering high-level national universities. From second year students focus on either science or arts.[2]
Stream III
A stream for students focussed on physical education or music. There are 7–8 less classes per week compared to streams I and II, allowing extra time for club activities (members of the brass band club receive 9 classes per week in music theory and practice).[4]
Junior high school
English and mathematics specialisation stream
For students aiming to enter Tokyo University, Kyoto University, or the medical school of other national universities.[3]
English and mathematics stream
For students aiming at entering top-level national universities.[3]
Club activities
Baseball
The school's baseball club was formed in 1988.[5] In 1991, only the club's fourth year of existence, Osaka Tōin participated in the spring invitational tournament for the first time. The school advanced to the quarter-finals, with the highlight of the tournament being ace Yukihiko Wada pitching a no-hit, shutout in the first round match against Sendai Ikuei High School. In the same year, the school won the "Summer Koshien" national championships, defeating Okinawa Fisheries High School 13-8 in the final.[6] Osaka Tōin was the 14th school to win the championship in their first year of qualifying for the tournament.[6] Wada and future Yomiuri Giants member Yoshihiro Seo pitched in the championship match against Okinawa Fisheries ace Rin Ōno; fellow future Yomiuri Giant Makoto Hagiwara hit the only home run of the match.[7]
In 2012, Osaka Tōin became the seventh school in history to win the spring invitational and summer national tournaments in the same year, defeating Aomori Prefecture's Kōsei Gakuin in the final of both tournaments.[9][10] It was the first time that two schools met in the final of both tournaments in the same year.[10] Future Hanshin Tigers ace Shintaro Fujinami was the star of the tournament, pitching shutouts in both the semi-final and final.[10] In the autumn of 2012, Osaka Tōin was joint-champion of the National Sports Festival along with Sendai Ikuei,[11] becoming the third school in history to win the "triple crown" in one year. Lost time due to rain earlier in the tournament forced tournament organizers to announce that the winners of the two semi-finals would be named joint champions.[11]
At the 2014 summer tournament, the school won for the fourth time, defeating Mie High School 4-3 in the final.[12]
In 2018 Osaka Toin became the third team ever to back-to-back titles of Spring Invitational Tournament in Koshien, since the same team won in the year before.[13]
The brass band club was formed in 2005 and in the same year took the gold prize at the Kansai Brass Band Contest. In 2006 and 2007, the band represented the Kansai region in the high school division of the All-Japan Band Competition, taking the silver award on both occasions. In 2008 the band did not qualify for the national competition, but returned in 2009 and won their first gold award. The band continued this success with consecutive wins at the 2010 and 2011 competitions.[15] In 2008 the band also won silver in its first appearance at the All Japan Marching Contest. It followed this with by winning gold at the 2009 and 2010 events. As a result of this success, the band receives many requests for public performances and is well known throughout Japan despite its short history.
Soccer
The school's soccer club was founded in 2005. It qualified for the soccer tournament of the national high school sports championships in 2007 and reached the quarter-finals of the same tournament in 2008. The club also qualified for the 2008 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament and advanced to the second round.[16]
The girls' soccer club was formed in 2006. It has qualified for the national championships several times since its first appearance in 2007; in 2011 the club finished runners-up, losing to Tokiwagi Gakuen High School LSC 1–3 in the final.[17]
Rugby
The school rugby club was formed in 1988. In 1995, it qualified for the National High School Rugby Tournament for the first time. In 2013 the club won the 14th Spring Invitational Tournament, its first championship win at the national level, defeating Tokai University Gyosei High School 33-14 in the final.[18] In 2015 the club were runners-up in the spring invitational tournament, this time losing to Tokai Gyosei 0–21 in the final.[19]
Golf
In 1999 the boys' golf team won the 20th annual All Japan High School Golf Tournament.[20]
Basketball
The boys' and girls' basketball teams each made their first appearance at the summer All Japan High School Basketball Tournament in 2014, with the boys' team advancing to the second round[21] and the girls' team advancing to the third round.[22] The girls' team also qualified for the "Winter Cup" tournament for the first time in 2014.[23]
Track and field
The track and field club was formed in 2011 as the "ekiden" club. The club changed its name to the track and field club in the following year. In November 2013 the club won the Osaka Prefecture ekiden qualification race and finished 22nd in the national championship in the following month.[24]
Controversies
In August 2007 the school was caught up in the scandal involving high schools embellishing the numbers of students that were successful in top-level university entrance exams. Whilst it was confirmed that the school had inflated numbers, the true results were not revealed. Yomiuri Shimbun reported that 16 students sat a combined total of 98 entrance exams, passing 88 of them;[25] the increased passing rate could then be used in promotional material.
In March 2015 it was revealed that the school administration had been diverting income into a slush fund and that such improper accounting practices had been taking place for approximately twenty years.[26] The majority of the funds came from tuition paid by the parents of students and overcharging for practice examinations and materials such as textbooks. The funds were diverted into various accounts including those of the school's first principal Shin'ichi Moriyama and his daughter, and were estimated to exceed 500 million yen.[27] The funds were reported to have been spent on taxi fares, dining and alcohol, expenses for entertaining managers of local "juku" cram schools, golf equipment, high-class brand-name bags and clothing, and other gifts.[28] In response, the Osaka Prefectural Government announced in March 2015 that it would reduce the subsidy given to Osaka Sangyo University in the 2015 financial year by 20 percent, from the 660 million yen provided for in the prefecture's annual budget, as punishment for the "malicious misappropriation of funds that should have been repaid to parents".[29] In April 2015, the Osaka Sangyo University Teachers' Union filed a criminal complaint to Osaka prefectural police against Moriyama and the school's former administrator, who allegedly managed the transfer of funds into Moriyama's accounts.[30]
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^ ab"I･II類カリキュラム" [Streams I & II Curriculua] (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 October 2015.
^ abc"6年制一貫教育について" [About the 6-year integrated education] (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 October 2015.
^"III類カリキュラム" [Stream III Curriculum] (in Japanese). Retrieved 16 October 2015.
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^"裏金は総額5億円以上 大阪桐蔭不正流用で第三者委" [Slush fund total more than Y500 million: Osaka Tōin Embezzlement Independent Committee] (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-03-28. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
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^"大産大に補助金2割減額処分 大阪桐蔭裏金問題で大阪府" [Osaka Sangyo Uni. subsidy reduced 20%, penalty for Osaka Tōin slush fund: Osaka Prefecture] (in Japanese). Nihon Keizai Shimbun. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
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