Figure 1.--Boys at Keio Junior High School in the 1970s had a summer uniform of white shirts and slacks or short pants. HBC is not sure if the choice was optional. |
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Keio Gijuku (Keio Private School System)is a well known private school in Tokyo. It was not specifically a junior high school, but rather a comprehensive educational intutution offering primary to university education. Keio University is one of the most prestigious private schools in Japan. Keio JuniorHigh was thus only part of the overall program. Keio like most private schools required a uniform. The school had quite different summer and winter uniforms. The summer uniform was rather informal while the winter uniform rather formal. Keio in 1990 even founded the Keio Academy in New York primarily to meet the needs of Japanese living overseas.
The Keio educational program originated with the foundation of Keo Universityu. Keio University is a private, co-educational university. It was founded in 1858 just as Japan was opening to the West. Keio was founded by Yukichi Fukuzawa, a highly respected intellectual leader of the era. Keio is the oldest institution of higher education in Japan. Since 1898, Keio has offered a comprehensive educational program that begins with grammar (primary) school.
Keio Gijuku is very unique in being one component in an educational
corporation which in 2001 operated one elementary school, three
junior high schools, five senior high schools, one university (including graduate schools), one business school, one junior college, three university hospitals, and other research institutions. Keio continues to emphasize the founding principles of independence, self-respect, and academic excellence.
1858: Establishment of Fukuzawa's private Dutch studies school in Teppozu, Edo (present-day Tokyo); this is the origin of present-day Keio.
1863: The school transformed into an English studies school.
1868: The school moved to a new site, adopting "Keio" from the name of the era.
1871: Keio moved to Mita (now the main campus).
1890: Keio inaugurated as the first private university in Japan with three departments: Literature, Economics, and Law.
1898: Keio as an integrated educational corporation with elementary and secondary schools started.
HBC does not have extensive chrnological information. We do not know when the school was founded. The available images look to be from the 1960s-70s. HBC believes that by the 1980s that the uniform was changed to long pants.
Keio Junior High School appears to have had very different winter and summer uniforms.
The winter uniform looks to be a rather formal military styled uniform with military caps. The boys wore blue jackets and pants, both short and long pants. HBC is unsure if the younger boys wore shorts or if it was up to the parents to decide. Thee boy in shorts wear kneesocks.
The summer uniform is much more informal, just a white shirt and pants. They do not seem to wear caps in the summer. Like the winter uniform, the boys wear both long and shorts pants. The boy in shorts wears white ankle socks.
Keio clearly required the boys to wear uniforms. It is not clear, however, what the rules were. Perhaps younger boys or boys in junior classes ha to wear shorts. Or perhaps shorts were an option and the boys' parents decided. As Keio operated both junior and senior high schools, it is possible that the boys in shorts are in the junior high school and the boys in longs are in the senior high school. HBC has discussed this with some of our Japanese readers. They are also not sure about the school regulations. One reader reports, "I am not sure. Some school required the shorts uniform for the first grade studens, and for second or third grades students optional. And some school had an optional shorts uniform."
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The Keio boys wore quite different school uniform garments during the winter than summer.
The winter uniform require a Japanese-military style cap. In the summer there does not appear to have been a cap.
The winter uniform involve a dark blue or black jacket with military-style buttons on the sleeve.
White gloves were require in the winter.
Boys wore short-sleeved white shirts in the summer. I am not sure what kind of shirt that the boys wore under their jackets during the winter.
The boys wear both short and long pants. During the winter the pants look to be the same style and material, except for the length. uring the winter the boy in long pants wers a darker color than the boy in shorts/.
Boys during the winter wear dark kneesocks to match heir pants. During the summer the boys in short wear white ankle socks.
Boys in the winter wear black leather shoes. I am not sure what kind of shoes that the boys in the summer uniform were wearing.
Keio Academy of New York was established in 1990 by the Keio Gijuku (Keio Private School System) of Japan to meet the needs of Japanese living overseas. Inheriting traditions established by Yukichi Fukuzawa (whose picture appears on the Japanese 10,000 yen currency), Keio's founder, Keio Academy of New York is a a unique international private academic institution. This school is making every effort to be a precursor in educating future leaders for the international scene as society heads into the 21 st century. Keio Academy educates its students through a unique bilingual and bicultural educational curriculum. Keio Academy is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees made up of both Japanese and Americans who are Keio University staff members and alumni, local community members, and corporate leaders committed to the philosophy of bilingual and bicultural education. Keio Academy of New York is a four-year co-educational secondary school. They offer both day and boarding school. A limited number of day students attend, but the majority of our students are boarders.
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