Komaba Junior and Senior High School, University of Tsukuba

Komaba Junior and Senior High School, University of Tsukuba 筑波大学附属駒場中学校・高等学校 Schola Media et Summa Komaba ad Universitatem Tsukubae Sociata
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Motto	自由・闊達の校風のもと、挑戦し、創造し、貢献する生き方をめざす (aim to live a life that embraces challenge, fosters creativity, and contributes to society under the spirit of freedom and openness)
Established	1947

Komaba Junior and Senior High School, University of Tsukuba (筑波大学附属駒場中学校・高等学校) is a national boys' school located in Ikejiri, Setagaya, near Komaba. It is better known by the abbreviation Tsukukoma (筑駒). Tsukukoma is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba and provides six-year secondary education programmes. Tsukukoma is the only national boys' school in Japan and is regarded as one of the most selective secondary educational institutions in the country.

Overview

In 1947, Tsukukoma was established as a new junior high school affiliated with the former Tokyo Agricultural School. It was later renamed Komaba Junior and Senior High School, affiliated with Tokyo University of Education in 1952, and then, in 1978, it came under the purview of the University of Tsukuba, which replaced Tokyo University of Education that year. Although it is an affiliated school of the University of Tsukuba, very few students choose to study at the university after graduation.

Known for its liberal school spirit, the school has no uniforms for both junior and senior high students. It is located on the site of the former Komaba Agricultural School and maintains a tradition of rice cultivation training in paddy fields, known at the school as 'Kernel Paddy'. In its vicinity there are Komaba Toho Junior and Senior High School, Tokyo Metropolitan Komaba High School, Komaba Gakuen High School, and Nihon University Komaba Junior and Senior High School.

Tsukukoma is one of the largest sources of successful applicants to the University of Tokyo, which is generally regarded as the nation's most selective and prestigious university. The school is located on a hill approximately 700 metres south of the Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo, which mainly accommodates first and second-year undergraduates.

Number of Successful Applicants to the University of Tokyo by School Attended (2024)

School	Type	Number of successful applicants
Kaisei	Private boys' school	149
Seiko	Private boys' school	100
Nada	Private boys' school	94
Komaba (Tsukukoma)	National boys' school	90
Nishiyamato	Private coeducational school	71
Shibuya Makuhari	Private coeducational school	64
Oin	Private girls' school	63
Hibiya	Public coeducational school	60

Notable alumni

Politicians

• Hiroyuki Hosoda
• Shigeyuki Goto
• Yasuhiro Hanashi
• Akira Koike
• Ken Saito
• Yoshihide Yoshida (Chief of Staff of the Self-Defence Forces of Japan)

Scholars

• Shinichi Mochizuki (mathematician, did not attend the high school and moved to the United States instead)
• Kazuo Ueda (economist, Govenor of the Bank of Japan)
• Haruhiko Kuroda (Govenor of the Bank of Japan)
• Fuhito Kojima (economist)
• Masaru Kaneko (economist)