Osaka Tōin Junior and Senior High School
History. Osaka Tōin Senior High School was founded as the Daitō campus of Osaka Sangyo University Senior High School in 1983, during a period of rapid increase in the number of high school students in Japan. The school commenced with 150 students enrolled in two streams; a regular course and dedicated physical education course. The school became independent from Osaka Sangyo University Senior High School in 1988 and an integrated junior high school was opened in 1995. Club activities. Baseball. The school's baseball club was formed in 1988. In 1991, only the  club's fourth year of existence, Osaka Tōin participated in the spring invitational tournament for the first time. The school advanced to the quarter finals, with the highlight of the tournament being ace Yukihiko Wada pitching a no-hit, shutout in the first round match against Sendai Ikuei High School. In the same year, the school won the "Summer Koshien" national championships, defeating Okinawa Fisheries High School 13-8 in the final. Osaka Tōin was the 14th school to win the championship in their first year of qualifying for the tournament. Wada and future Yomiuri Giants member Yoshihiro Seo pitched  in the championship match against Okinawa Fisheries ace Rin Ōno; fellow future Yomiuri Giant Makoto Hagiwara hit the only home run of the match. The school won its second national championship in 2008, defeating Shizuoka Prefecture's Tokoha Kikukgawa Senior High School 17-0 in the final. In 2012, Osaka Tōin became the seventh school in history to win the spring invitational and summer national tournaments in the same year, defeating Aomori Prefecture's Kōsei Gakuin in the final of both tournaments. It was the first time that two schools met in the final of both tournaments in the same  year. Future Hanshin Tigers ace Shintaro Fujinami was the star of the tournament, pitching shutouts in both the semi-final and final. In the autumn of 2012, Osaka Tōin was joint-champion of the National Sports Festival along with Sendai Ikuei, becoming the third school in history to win the "triple crown" in one year. Lost time due to rain earlier in the tournament forced tournament organizers to announce that the winners of the two semi-finals would be named joint champions. At the 2014 summer tournament, the school won for the fourth time, defeating Mie High School 4-3  in the final. In 2018 Osaka Toin became the third team ever to back-to-back titles of Spring Invitational Tournament in Koshien, since the same team won in the year before. Former members of the Osaka Toin baseball team have played for eleven of the twelve Japanese professional baseball teams (see list of alumni below). Sho Nakata and Tsuyoshi Nishioka have played on the Japan national team and Nishioka spent two seasons with the Minnesota Twins of the MLB. Brass band. The brass band club was formed in 2005 and in the same year took the gold prize at  the Kansai Brass Band Contest. In 2006 and 2007, the band represented the Kansai region in the high school division of the All-Japan Band Competition, taking the silver award on both occasions. In 2008 the band did not qualify for the national competition, but returned in 2009 and won their first gold award. The band continued this success with consecutive wins at the 2010 and 2011 competitions. In 2008 the band also won silver in its first appearance at the All Japan Marching Contest. It followed this with by winning gold at the 2009 and 2010 events. As a  result of this success, the band receives many requests for public performances and is well known throughout Japan despite its short history. Soccer. The school's soccer club was founded in 2005. It qualified for the soccer tournament of the national high school sports championships in 2007 and reached the quarter finals of the same tournament in 2008. The club also qualified for the 2008 All Japan High School Soccer Tournament and advanced to the second round. The girls' soccer club was formed in 2006. It has qualified for the national championships several times since its first appearance in 2007 ; in 2011 the club finished runners-up, losing to Tokiwagi Gakuen High School 1–3 in the final. Rugby. The school rugby club was formed in 1988. In 1995, it qualified for the National High School Rugby Tournament for the first time. In 2013 the club won the 14th Spring Invitational Tournament, its first championship win at the national level, defeating Tokai University Gyosei High School 33-14 in the final. In 2015 the club were runners-up in the spring invitational tournament, this time losing to Tokai Gyosei 0–21 in the final. Golf. In 1999 the boys' golf team won  the 20th annual All Japan High School Golf Tournament. Basketball. The boys' and girls' basketball teams each made their first appearance at the summer All Japan High School Basketball Tournament in 2014, with the boys' team advancing to the second round and the girls' team advancing to the third round. The girls' team also qualified for the "Winter Cup" tournament for the first time in 2014. Track and field. The track and field club was formed in 2011 as the "ekiden" club. The club changed its name to the track and field club in the following year. In November 2013  the club won the Osaka Prefecture ekiden qualification race and finished 22nd in the national championship in the following month.