April 9, 2016

The 61th entrance ceremony of Fukuoka Daiichi High School and the 53th of Daiichi University of Pharmacy High School is held. It is a great pleasure and honor to be in the presence of many guests and guardians despite your crowded schedule. New students and also all of university officials appreciate such a sober and smooth progress of the ceremony. We would like to express the deepest gratitude.

Tsuzuki Education Group commemorates the 60th year anniversary this year since its establishment.

On the monument built 60 years ago,

The whole of creation contains the absolute truth and the significance of existence.
Things create value alongside of the heart. Education makes man shine eternally.
"Training for Life through development of personality" is the motto of Fukuoka Daiichi High School.
The young put the soul of schooling into the power of the nation, the fountain of culture and every stick and stone.

January 31, 1956
Founder Yorisuke Tsuzuki and Sadae Tsuzuki

The founders are Mr. Yorisuke Tsuzuki, who was an authority in Japanese linguistics and Japanese history of the former University of Teacher Education Fukuoka and Mrs. Sadae Tsuzuki who was appointed as the first and only female president of a prefectural high school in the year the new 6-3-3 schooling system enforced, and also accomplished many achievements.

During years of educational experiences in national universities and prefectural high schools, both teachers questioned the uniform school education and the actual situation that many young persons’ career and life depended simply on a score. They resigned their position from the passion to open a school focusing on the freedom and development of personality, and then worked on the foundation of Fukuoka Daiichi High School.

In these 60 years, Tsuzuki Education Group has attempted to expand the educational opportunities in the field of medical care, welfare, technology, global education, networking with nationwide institutions including kindergarten, nursery, elementary school, junior high school, high school, college, junior college, university and graduate school with a wide distribution in Sapporo in the north, Saitama, Tokyo Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ueno, Ochanomizu, Ikebukuro, Tachikawa, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Himeji, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, and Kagoshima across 16 prefectures under the coherent school philosophy of "Training for life through development of personality",.

Our international network includes the world's top prestigious universities such as Harvard University and University Hawaii in the U.S., University of Oxford and University of Cambridge in Great Britain. We promote the academic exchange, cultural exchange and interchange with international students.

Such growth at home and abroad began at Fukuoka Daiichi High School with the belief of "Ichigen Banryu" (one source to thousands streams), followed by Daiichi University of Pharmacy High School. New students of the correspondence course are also participating in the ceremony through live broadcast from Shibuya today.

"Daiichi" in both school names is named in honor of "Daiichi Shugi" (the primary principle) which is a Buddhist term, and represents a unique "personality".

The Buddhism scripture defines Daiichi Gisetsu (the ultimate truth) as Paramartha in Sanskrit, and it is considered as the most important word in the teachings of the Buddha. In the same way Identity always starts with a capital letter in English.

As parent and child even differ from each other by respective DNA, man innately has distinguished qualities and talent, namely, personality.

We hope that education develops the personality, grows a person required by the society and the world: that is our unchanging education policy.

Not only academic work, but club activities and the Parama School also share the same policy. Our schools have produced a wide variety of resources with different personalities over 60 years.

Superb athletes appeared one after another and participated in sailing and equestrian fields of the London Olympics and Rio Olympics. Due to the nature of the locality, some alumni perform brilliantly in the art world and show business.

Now a national singer, Kiyoshi Hikawa was the second student of the Parama school to enter an entertainment school. He entered high school after Takamiya Junior School aiming to be an interior designer and initially belonged to the interior course at the time. However, Mr. Homma, specially appointed instructor in enka (Japanese ballad) at Parama, spotted Kiyoshi's talent, and Kiyoshi made his professional debut after three years of enka training at Parama school. He had never thought of being a singer for his career until he entered the school.
People often take personality for granted, but hardly realize.it.
Not only human personality.

Your house, family, hometown, prefecture, national characteristic, country, those personalities and identities are important because the superior personalities complement a whole diversity.

In the age of globalization today, any information can be shared by people all over the world. Foreign people began discovering more information about the personality of Japan, Japanese-ness and Japanese style.

Horyuji temple located in Nara was named to the first UNISCO world heritage site in Japan in 1993. Regarding the registration, however, a controversial matter arose without simple progress. While the Western cultural heritages were mainly stone-built, Horyuji temple was built of wood. There was a question if it was the truly authentic temple despite a history of being destroyed soon after the foundation by Prince Shotoku. However, the fact that the exact same temple had been reconstructed by the master carpenter remained on a record, and the registration as a world heritage was finally achieved. Wood for Japanese culture was compared to stone for European culture. The Parthenon in Greek has already laid in ruins though, Horyuji temple is characterized by continuing in existence for 1400 years known as a famous temple. The world is equal under a wide variety of differences.

As another feature, Japan leads the world in the number of long-established businesses including over 60,000 companies in business for 100 years or more and other time-honored industries for 200 years, 300 years and even more than 1,000 years that is far ahead of that of any other country.

Why is it possible for Japan to achieve such a feat? We would like you to think about it. Japan has its own personality (identity) in a different way from the U.S. who supports new venture companies.

Arts derived from Do (way) of "Dotoku" (morality) featured in Japanese culture including Bushido (the way of the samurai), the martial arts, such as Kendo (Japanese fencing), Judo, Sumodo, Karatedo, Aikido, and the literary arts such as Kado (flower arrangement), Sado (tea ceremony), Kodo (intense ceremony) and Shodo (calligraphy). Along with those arts, the Japanese heart, spirit and soul are honored. We seek the strength to overcome ourselves before the need to defeat others.

Tsuzuki Education Group felt the need to protect the personality of Japan from such an international perspective, and established "Japan Civilization Institute" in August of last year in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of its foundation. The director is Naoki Inose, a writer and ex-governor of Tokyo.

All of you, let your personality shine at school, be proud of your personality genuinely valuable to Japan and the world and start for a new life as a student of Fukuoka Daiichi High School or Daiichi University of Pharmacy High School.

The future is left in everybody’s hands. Don't give up your dream, and get greedy.