Lazio

Lazio Academy's Emblem

Lazio Academy ( ラツィオアカデミー, Ratsu~ioakademī ) is one of the OC Schools in PaA. They represent the country of Italy.

## Overview

Lazio Academy is situated in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. It is an Italian themed School as it was a product of the Italy-Vatican-Japan Multiculturalism and Multilateral relationship. This School has the highest percentage of Roman Catholic Students among other Schools in Japan.

## History

After the successful journey of the *Tenshō embassy*, the idea of a School meant for introduction the basics of European Culture and Roman Catholicism was emphasized by Mancio Itō, a Japanese nobleman, who was the first official Japanese emissary to Europe. Now with the help of his fellow noblemen who accompanied his eight-year-long journey, Miguel Chijiwa, Julião Nakaura, and Martinho Hara, created the Christian Gregorian School of Nagayo in the year 1592, just two years after the journey of the embassy.

As a parochial school, the school was sponsored by the Jesuits and the three Kirishitan *daimyōs,* as well as Jesuit Alessandro Valignano, a Jesuit missionary who supervised the introduction of the religion to Japan.

But during on the Tokugawa regime, Emperor Tokugawa Ieyasu began to see the religion as a growing threat to the stability of the shogunate. As *Ōgosho* (Cloistered *Shōgun*), he influenced the implementation of laws that banned the practice of Christianity. The ban of Christianity in Japan also included the School as it was shut down in the year of 1600 under the regime.

In the year of 1873, during the era of westernization in Japan under the Meijin Restoration, after two hundred years of ban, the Emperor Meijin lifted the ban on Christianity and thus the School was opened again under the management of the Society of Jesus, though they prioritized the development of the Sophia University in Chiyoda, Tokyo, rather than the Christian Gregorian as the school was defunct for over 200 years and its structure were almost near to collapse under its weight. Though they received an official approval of the Ministry of Education in 1913 alongside Sophia University as one of the Schools in Japan that is Catholic.

Priority to the School slowly declined through the years as the Jesuits and the Ministry of Education prioritized Sophia University's development as it was one of the prominent Catholic Universities in Japan while Gregorian was left in the dust, but around the year 1929, the Vatican gave the rights of the School to the Italian Government and thus it was renamed to Romulus Academy in the year 1930.

In the year 1930 and beyond, the Italians kick-started the school again as they want the Japanese to embrace the Italian Culture and Tradition. After years of Rapid Development of the School, an idea was proposed to built the school on top of a School-Carrier as the layout of the School was on par to the layouts of Architecture that was seen in Rome, but that plan was halted during the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War and thus the School remained land-locked after many years to come.

After peace settled in Japan, the idea was brought again by Ambassador Ken Harada, an Ambassador to the Holy See from Japan, and to Italy from Japan. The Idea is that they should continue the idea of an Italian-Japanese school on top of a School-Carrier to save the limited land in Nagoya as the land-locked school took quite a large amount of area during its rapid development as one must say that they did a little "overboard" on it. Thus on the year of 1960, after 8 years of building the School-Carrier and the School, the Lazio Academy was created on top of *RN Sparviero*, which coincidentally was built by Ansaldo, the company that also converted the Ocean Liner *Augustus* to *Sparviero* that the current School-Carrier was based on.

Today the School-Carrier is anchored in the port of Nagoya.

## School-Carrier

Lazio's School-Carrier is the *RN* (Regia Nava) *Sparviero*, a cancelled converted Aircraft Carrier from the Ocean Liner *Augustus*.

## Panzerkraft

Lazio's Senshado Team is called the *Lazio's Senshadou Esercito (LSE),* specifically they are called the "131 Centauro" or "131 Centaurs".

## Trivia

* The Insignia of 131 Centauro is based on the design of the 131st Armoured Division Centauro that served the Italian Army during WW2.
	+ Though there's an another design of the Insignia that is shares the same colors as the S.S. Lazio football team.
* They have their country theme music as well, and these are:
	1. *La Fedelissima*
	2. *Flik Flok*
	3. *Addio mia bella addio*
	4. *Inno dei Carrist*i - (Shares with Anzio)

* They have a good relationship with Anzio Girls High School.
* Lazio's special dish is the *Supremo Carbonara.*
* They are fanatic fans of Football, notably the S.S. Lazio Football team.

## Gallery

Lazio Academy's FlagLazio Academy's EmblemLazio's 131 Centauro InsigniaLazio's 131 Centauro Insignia (S.S. Design)