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Tokyo Gakuen High School

private high school in Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ7813884 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tokyo Gakuen High School (東京学園高等学校; "Tokyo Gakuen High School") is a high school in Japan. The traditional school uniform is a basic black gakuran with brass buttons while the summer version consists of gray pants and a white shirt. The school is divided into three semesters in a typical year of studies. Gas pumps are used for the purpose of heating and air conditioning the entire school. This school also has consistently maintained a boys-only policy despite an increased number of gender equality measures being carried out.

Editorial summary

“Tokyo Gakuen High School” enters the record as private high school in Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tokyo, Gakuen and High can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 87-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1889. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tokyo, Gakuen and High.
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Why this record matters

“Tokyo Gakuen High School” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tokyo, Gakuen and High provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7813884. VIAF identifies the subject as 258111464. Authority coordinates are 35.628, 139.698. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tokyo Gakuen High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.