Kasukabe Girls' Senior High School


Kasukabe Girls' Senior High School is a public high school in Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan.

Summary

Kasukabe Girls' Senior High School, popularly known as Kasujo, operates according to a standard full-day system. It offers an ordinary education curriculum as well as a special foreign languages course. It one of the so-called Super English Language High Schools. Partnered with Ohio Northern University, the curriculum focuses on international relations.

History

The song, which has two verses, is played at school functions to the accompaniment of a mandolin guitar group. The first verse centres on filial piety and the second, on the teacher-student relationship. In the period leading up to and during the Second World War, there was a third verse in between the current two, which described the duty to a sovereign emperor. It was taken out in the post-war era.
School facilities include the Foreign Language Annex, the Sunflower Building and the Sunflower Assembly Hall. The home-room classes, classroom facilities, as well as admission exams for the Foreign Language Curriculum classes are all in the Foreign Language Annex. However, ordinary curriculum students also use the annex from time to time.
Essentially a small gymnasium, the Sunflower Building houses, physical education classes as well as club activities such as kendo and badminton. It also serves as a place of refuge in the case of disaster both for students and the local neighbourhood. In case residents need to stay overnight, showers have been installed.
The Sunflower Assembly Hall is usually used as a cultural centre. On the first floor are cultural club activity rooms, student council rooms, a cafeteria, a laundry room, and baths. On the second floor are more cultural club activity rooms, and sleeping rooms for extended training sessions. These sleeping rooms, in addition to the koto club room and the cafeteria room, are also used by the sports clubs as extended training session lodging.
There is a two-storey building in the corner of the school grounds which was formerly used as extended training accommodation. It is used for woodwinds club activities as well as by the kyūdō club as a site for making udon noodles for the annual school cultural festival.

School events

The nearest railway station to the school is Kasukabe Station on the Tobu Skytree Line and the Tobu Urban Park Line, approximately 17 minutes away on foot.