Koishikawa Secondary Education School

is a public day school established by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. The campus is located in the Bunkyō district of Tokyo, Japan. It is a combined junior high school (students study for 3 years) and senior high school (also 3 years). History Ito Choshichi , the first principal of the school, attracted attention for his innovative discussion of various educational issues of the time in "Views on Modern Education" published in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun newspaper, with topics such as "the spread of uniformitarianism" and "poor scientific research. With the involvement of Tokyo Governor Inoue Tomokazu, Shinpei Goto, and others, he was selected as the first principal of the five prefectural junior high schools. Taking advantage of the location of the Riken institute adjacent to the school, he launched a school that emphasized science and chemistry education, focusing on natural science. The school emphasized experiments such as astronomical and meteorological observations and field trips, taught physics and chemistry from the first year of junior high school, which normally started in the third year of junior high school, used its own textbook on physical chemistry, and gave laboratory lectures in a chemistry laboratory equipped with advanced equipment. Ito's philosophy of "a school that produces scientists" led to a unique education in physics and chemistry that was distinctly different from that of other schools.