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2 unusual facts about Hibiya High School


Hibiya High School

However, they were all expelled due to a protest they organised in 1905 over the unfair signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, which effectively made the Korean Empire a protectorate of the Empire of Japan.

Twenty-five were permitted to re-enroll the following year, but the leaders of the protest, including Choe Nam-seon (who would later become active in the Korean independence movement), were permanently expelled.


Nakamura Yoshikoto

He attended the First Tokyo Middle School (now Hibiya High School), where one of his classmates and close friends was the future author Natsume Sōseki.


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