Kyoto International Junior and Senior High School (Japanese: 京都国際中学校・高等学校, Kyōto Kokusai Chūgakkō Kōtōgakkō; Korean: 교토국제중학교・고등학교; Hanja: 교토國際中學校・高等學校) is a Japanese school in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto.
It is under the Educational Foundation Kyoto International School (Japanese: 学校法人 京都国際学園 Korean: 학교법인교토국제학원; Hanja: 學校法人교토國際學園).
[4] Since then, the school has strengthened its linguistic education aiming for trilingual proficiency in Korean, English, and Japanese, enhancing its characteristics as an international school with the educational goal of fostering "true global citizens."
As an "Ichijo School," the educational curriculum follows Japan's learning guidelines, and all classes are conducted in Japanese using approved textbooks, except for subjects in English and Korean taught by native speakers.
students are enroled in Korean, English and Japanese language Classes.
[9][10] Noritsugu Komaki, the manager of the baseball club, and Yuta Iwabuchi, who recruits students for the baseball club, propose changing the school song to something more contemporary, but their proposal is continually rejected by the school.
Kim Anil, the vice principal, came up with the idea of starting a baseball club, taking a cue from Hidaka Natasu Branch School in Wakayama Prefecture, which had been in the spotlight after participating in the Spring Koshien tournament.
[22][23] Since 2021, they had been having great recent success, making consecutive appearances in the Spring and Summer Koshien tournaments,[24] achieving its first Summer Koshien tournament victory in 2024, after a 2-1 final game with extra innings against Kanto Dai ichi.
These eleven were Shin Seong-hyun, Kaisei Sone, Rikuya Shimizu, Kyohei Ueno, Shinosuke Haya, Jui Tsuri, Hayato Nakagawa, Ryudai Morishita, Mirai Suhgihara, Taiki Hamada and Keishin Nagamizu.