Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School announces the appointment of new principal from April 2021

University-affiliated science and technology school set to boost emphasis on STEAM subjects

At a meeting of the Board of Directors held on December 9, the Shibaura Institute of Technology (location: Koto-ku, Tokyo; Chairman of the Board of Directors: Takeo Suzumi) resolved to appoint current Vice Principal Motoya Sato as Principal of Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School, effective April 1, 2021, for a three-year term expiring March 2024.

Term

April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024
Motoya Sato has worked at Shibaura Institute of Technology Kashiwa Junior and Senior High School for 26 years. During this time, he has overseen the introduction of co-education in the high school (in 1990) and the establishment of the junior high school (in 1999). Following a year of negotiations between the two combined junior and senior high schools (at Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School and Shibaura Institute of Technology Kashiwa Junior and Senior High School), he was appointed Assistant to the Vice Principal and Head of Careers for the university-affiliated school. His main duties involved engaging in PR and external liaison activities, enhancing the careers guidance program, and setting up a comprehensive careers guidance system. He aims to build on existing traditions and achievements and use the introduction of co-education in the junior high school as an opportunity to boost educational standards across the board and present the school’s unique offerings with greater clarity of vision.Chairman (2017) and Vice Chairman (2011–2013) of the Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties, Director (General Affairs, Kanto branch) of the Heat Transfer Society of Japan (2006–2008)

Career highlights

Mar. 1977                        Graduated from Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School
Mar. 1981                        Graduated from Department of English, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Dokkyo University
Apr. 1981                         Teacher, Shibaura Institute of Technology Kashiwa Senior High School
Apr. 2006–Mar. 2007   Teacher, Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School
Apr. 2008–Mar. 2013   Assistant to Vice Principal, Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School
                                            (and Head of Careers/Senior Careers Counselor until March 2020)
Oct. 2012–Sept. 2017 Councilor, Shibaura Institute of Technology
Apr. 2013–present       Vice Principal, Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School

                                          

Additional information about Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School
http://www.ijh.shibaura-it.ac.jp/
Shibaura Institute of Technology Junior and Senior High School is a private combined junior and senior high school that is dedicated to producing the global engineers of the future. The school offers a unique brand of STEAM education in a state-of-the-art teaching environment predicated on four key fundamentals: a science-based education, a direct affiliation with the university, a strong focus on languages, and an emphasis on inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge.
The school is strongly committed to ICT, as evidenced by the fact that all of its students have been learning on tablet computers since the 2017 intake.
The junior high school will be co-educational from April 2021.
Toyosu 6-2-7, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Junior high school = 489 students; senior high school = 639 students (as of May 2020)