@Olive and Rose

 

‘     Olive

    Fukuyama Fuzoku has a school symbol of olives.  The symbol, shaping a triangle with a berry and two leaves, was designed by the first principal, Ikuji Matsubara.  Mr. Matsubara wished for the spirit of freedom and the respect for peace to the symbol.

    Since the foundation of Fukuyama Fuzoku, we have insisted on the studentsf individual autonomy or free will under the corporate identity.  The way of thinking, erespect for peace,f also shows us that students do not wear such strict military-like uniforms; actually, their cap shapes round and has no brim, and it looks like a mountain-climbing hat.

    Historically, we can also see the respect for freedom and peace in the symbol of the olive.  As for the olive it is something which symbolizes ancient Greek democracy, and the olives are brought up in the Mediterranean climate.  The Inland Sea, Setouchi, near our Fukuyama Fuzoku, is also connected to the Mediterranean.  The colour of our school cap is ultramarine, and the bright blue is associated with the deep-blue sea of the Mediterranean along Greece.  We, Fukuyama Fuzoku, are wishing for the world peace on the school symbol colour of ultramarine.

    Through the wishes above, a lot of olive trees are planted in our campus as a symbol of Fukuyama Fuzoku.

 School Badge

 

‘     Rose

    In 1956, the dark postwar time, people living in Fukuyama began to plant as many as one thousand roses in the present Rose Park, wishing that roses would make their feelings nice and calm, so they have been planting roses since then.

    Thanks to the city planning of cherishing roses, people in Fukuyama could enjoy seeing the beautiful deep-red roses.  On April 1st of 1985, roses were recognized as the city flower of Fukuyama with their wishes, and now approximately four hundred thousand roses are blooming around the city.  Every year in May, people enjoy a lot of interesting events of the eRose Festivalf in Rose Park.

    Fukuyama Fuzoku regards the city flower of roses as the school symbol flower, and we have grown roses in the school rose garden.  In the season for roses, we can enjoy seeing various beautiful colourful roses in the school and by the school road.  People living near the school as well as students and the school staff can see the beautiful roses blooming around Fukuyama Fuzoku.

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Rose Garden

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