Kyoto International Junior and Senior High School, is a private school located in Japan in Kyoto Prefecture, was founded in 1947 originally with the name Kyoto Chosen Jr. High School, was born as an ethnic institution for students of Korean origin, opened to enrollment to Japanese students in 2004, when the school began to have financial problems. The school aims to have trilingual skills in Korean, Japanese and English, with the aim of training "true citizens of the world". Today only 160 students are present in the school and they all have some connection with Korea.
The high school baseball club was founded in 1999, and was the first international school to compete in the Kyoto Prefecture Qualifying Tournament for the "Summer Koishien" championship.
Web photo of the team's victory at the "Summer Koishen" championship
The school has only a three-storey building and a 60m courtyard, to participate and prepare for this competition he had to ask to be able to train in other fields of other schools and train his players by focusing separately on his own players.
This year the baseball team defeated Kanto Daichi High School in the final, taking everyone by surprise, winning 8 consecutive games and coming back like in a movie, winning 3 consecutive victories in the final leaving the spectators in disbelief, who began to become more interested in this small, unknown but talented team every day. School principal Park Kyung-so said none of them expected such a big achievement, and thanked the Korean government for giving the school baseball equipment such as bats and balls worth 10 million won.
The victory of this team, which is not only incredible due to the comebacks that saw it win this championship, against all expectations, also has the sweet taste of thanks given with deep pride and esteem by all Korean citizens for having raised the uniqueness of this school, which sees players and students fighting and winning for South Korea while singing the school anthem in Korean.
The President of South Korea Mr. Yoon Suk Yeol he congratulated this school and this team of athletes for having managed to achieve this result, making themselves recognized as a symbol of revenge and union between the two nations, bringing a message of cooperation and respect for everyone.
Paola Pelissa