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About Each Club Table Tennis Club In 1932 and 1933 the AIT Junior High School team won the Central Japan Students Championships in two consecutive years. In 1937 the AIT Junior High School team began by winning the All Japan Middle School Table Tennis Championships (the championship pennant changed hands from Aomori to the Nagoya), and went on to win many of the national table tennis competitions. ‘Meiden's Table Tennis Club' was known nationwide. In 1967 and 1968 the AIT Meiden High School table tennis team went abroad to win the Asian Table Tennis Championships. At the World Table Tennis Championships in Stockholm in 1967, the AIT university table tennis club won six out of seven categories, and in taking first place in the world's rankings, the name Hasegawa (AIT Table Tennis Club) became a shining star in the history books of Japanese table tennis. At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Akira Kito (a graduate of AIT Junior High School, AIT Meiden High School, and Aichi Institute of Technology) participated in the Men's Table Tennis doubles. In addition to the above, the table tennis teams of the AIT Junior High School, AIT Meiden High School, and the Aichi Institute of Technology have given magnificent performances at many competitions abroad as well as in Japan. Defending Champion Xi En Ting's coach at the reception by the University Table Tennis Club. (1983) Doubles and team victory at the Tokai High School Championships. (2003) Fencing Club Starting in 3rd place in the national standings in 1953, the team won national and interscholastic athletic meets and various domestic championships. 1957 was a particularly strong year for the fencing club as they went on to monopolize the first four places in the Individual Bouts at the 3rd Interscholastic Athletic Event, and in winning all five events without yielding a single point established a record which has yet to be beaten. Aichi Institute of Technology became synonymous with Fencing in that splendid effort. In 1967 AIT University Fencing Team was represented by Kazuhiko Wakasugi as Japan's sole representative to the World Fencing Competition in Montreal. Also, in the same year, at the 1967 Tokyo Universiade, Wakasugi dismissed the defending champion, and, in an amazing accomplishment, led Japan to its first victory in an international competition. Since then, the team has left an impressive record of numerous victories won in high school and university fencing. Kazuhiko Wakasugi (AIT) wins at the 1967 Tokyo Universiade. Kazuhiko Wakasugi represents Japan at the 19th Mexico Olympics in 1968 (front row, center). In interscholastic athletic meets in 2002, AIT Meiden High School took first prize in the Individual Sabre, and in 2003 took Individual Epee in various wins. (Photo, 2000) Baseball Club The Meiden High School Baseball team was first invited to the National High School Invitational Tourney 1968, and thereafter were invited 6 times. The team has also played at 7 National High School Baseball Championships. At the 68th Championships in 1981, Kimiyasu Kudo pitched a no-hit no-run game against Nagasaki Nishi, and reached the semi-finals. Today, they remain among the best four teams of all the private schools in Aichi Prefecture. Past graduates who are playing baseball today include Ichiro (Seattle Mariners), Kimiyasu Kudo (Yomiuri Giants), Takeshi Yamazaki (Orix BlueWave), Katsutoshi Ishido (Yakult Swallows), and many others who are active in baseball today. In 1971 the AIT University Baseball team won the Aichi Autumn League Tournament, made their move towards the Meiji Shrine Memorial Tournament, and today play in the Premier League. Yukihiro Nishizaki (Nippon Ham), Kazuhito Yoshimura (Chunichi Dragons), and Junichi Kamino (Chunichi Dragons) number among the university players who continued on to play professional baseball. The AIT University Baseball team participated in invitationals in Beijing, and Shanghai. People's China magazine put the visit on the front cover and filled more than eight pages with news about the exchange in their December issue. (1975) Among the top four teams of all the private schools in Aichi Prefecture, AIT Meiden High School Baseball team has participated in the Koshien tournament - every boy's dream - 11 times. On a visit to his alma mater, Ichiro greets the students that came after him at school. (28 November, 1994 ) After graduating from AIT Meiden High School, in only two years with Orix BlueWave, Ichiro became leading hitter, had most hits, had the highest on-base percentage, was made Pacific League MVP, was awarded the Best Nine Golden Club Award and the Shoriki Matsutaro Award, and became the center of the ‘Ichiro boom'. Sumo Club In only two years after the establishment of the club in 1963 the team advanced to second place. To date, they have won the All Japan High School Shinjin-Sumo Tournament, have taken first place in the Tokai High School Championships 14 times, and have won the Aichi Prefectural High School Championships 12 years consecutively. The club has also achieved numerous other outstanding results. Two AIT Meiden High School graduates now actively following careers as sumo wrestlers are Asanowaka and Buyuuzan. Local sumo wrestlers Asanowaka and Buyuuzan at a party honoring wrestlers from AIT. The Sumo Club's Training. The Brass Band The Wind Instrument Band got their career rolling in 1959 by winning the Central Japan Wind Instrument Competition, in 1966 advanced to the All Japan Band Competition. Since then the band has competed 23 times in the All Japan Band Competition, winning the Gold Medal award 9 of those times. Besides playing at parades for Foundation events, the band also performs at Nagoya City and Aichi Prefectural and other music competition or sporting event ceremonies, at the Nagoya City prison, at senior citizens homes, and at regular performances and on foreign tours. Recorded CD entitled "Legendary IV" (1997), and "Anthology" (2001) The Brass Band has won numerous awards and has travelled abroad to perform.