When researching all the old schools and abandoned settlements and villages in Toga Valley, I put together a timeline of when schools opened and closed, and when some neighborhoods became deserted. This timeline was built using an anniversary book that I found while exploring one of the old schools. This book lists all graduates of Toga Junior High School for its first 40 years complete with graduation photos.
Also, many of the dates were grabbed from Heyaneko and Mr. Murakami, who did a lot of research and explored the area 10-15 years ago. Other information, such as population, I grabbed from random sites after googling Toga population, Toyama population, and Japan population.
Here's the full post on Toga Valley: /toga-valley-and-past-schools
1892 - Shimotoga Public School opened 下利賀尋常小学校
1895 - Renamed to Toga Public School 利賀尋常小学校
1896 - Toga Village established as a municipality. 東礪波郡利賀村
1902 - Tochihara Branch School opened 栃原分校 (32 students)
1902 - Sennohara Branch School opened 仙野原分校 (18 students)
1902 - Takanuma Branch School opened 高沼分校 (52 students)
1902 - Kitabara Branch School opened 利賀小学校北原分校 (18 students)
1929 - Mizunashi Branch School opened 水無分校
1930 - Oshiba Winter Branch School opened 押場冬季分校 (11 students)
1934 - Kurito Winter Branch School opened 利賀小学校高沼分校栗当冬季分校 (10 students)
1935 - Sennohara Winter Branch School established 利賀小学校北原分校仙野原冬季分校 (7 students)
1935 - Sorei Winter Branch School opened 利賀小学校高沼分校草嶺冬季分校 (10 students)
1935 - Okutaikanba Branch School opened 大勘場分校 (15 students)
1935 - Tanoshima Winter Branch School opened 利賀小学校大勘場分校田ノ島冬季分校 (16 students)
1935 - Shimobara Winter Branch School opened 利賀小学校栃原分校下原冬季分校 (16 students)
1940 - Japan enters World War II
1941 - Japan renames schools to National Public Schools. 国民学校
1944 - Katsurao Winter Branch School opened 利賀小学校大勘場分校桂尾冬季分校 (9 students)
1945 - Japan surrenders World War II
1947 - Establishment of education reforms after World War II
1947 - Renamed to Toga Elementary School 利賀小学校
1947 - Toga Junior High opened 利賀中学校
1947 - Population of Toga = 4663
1948 - Sakagami and Momosegawa Branch Schools opened for JHS 坂上分校 百瀬川分校
1949 - Okutaikanba, Takanuma, Shogawa Branch Schools opened for JHS 奥大勘場分校 高沼分校 庄川分校
1949 - Graduating class of Toga JHS is 92 students
1950 - Population of Japan is 83.4 million, Toyama is 1 million, and Toga is 3562.
1953 - Nakaguchi Winter Branch School opened. 中口冬季分校 (34 students)
1955 - Arayama uninhabited. (southern most area of Tochihara) (Murakami research)
1959 - 21 elementary schools in Toga Village. (1 main school, 11 branch schools, 9 winter schools)
1959 - total of 86 elementary students
1960 - Population of Japan is 93.2 million, Toyama is 1.03 million, and Toga is 3038.
1962 - Toga Junior High School rebuilt with dormatory.
1962 - No more JHS branches. (Sakagami, Shogawa, Momosegawa, Takanuma, Okutaikanba)
(students from Takanuma and Shogawa go to Inami JHS instead, outside of Toga)
1963 - New Toga Elementary School Building completed
1964 - Toga Junior High School graduating class is 79 students.
1965 - Population of Toga is 2568 people.
1965 - Tanoshima Winter Branch School closed. 田ノ島冬季分校 (go to Okutaikanba)
1965 - Nakaguchi Winter Branch School closed. 中口冬季分校 (go to Okutaikanba)
1965 - Katsurao Winter Branch School closed. 桂尾冬季分校 (go to Okutaikanba)
1965 - Sennohara Winter Branch School closed 仙野原冬季分校
1966 - Sennohara village abandoned. (Murakami research)
1966 - Mizunashi Branch School no longer used. 水無分校
1967 - Mizunashi Branch School fully closed. 水無分校
1967 - Kurito Winter Branch School closed. 栗当冬季分校 (go to Takanuma)
1968 - Kitamamedani Branch School and Oshiba Winter Branch Schools closed 北豆谷分校 押場冬季分校
1968 - Sakagami Elementary School opened 坂上小学校
1970 - Mizunashi uninhabited.
1971 - Kitabara Branch School no longer used. 北原分校
1971 - New Momosegawa Branch School built. 百瀬川分校
1973 - Tochihara Branch School no longer used. 栃原分校
1976 - Tochihara Branch School fully closed. 栃原分校
1976 - Tochihara uninhabited, although Ski Resort and Farms were still there.
1976 - Taikanba Branch School established (35 students)
1976 - Senzoku Branch School established, renamed from Okutaikanba 千束分校 (31 students)
1976 - Shimobara Branch School established. 下原分校 (renamed from 下原冬季分校)
1977 - Sorei Winter Branch School closed. 草嶺冬季分校 (go to Takanuma)
1978 - Takanuma Branch School no longer used. 高沼分校
1978 - Tanoshima uninhabited. (Murakami research)
1979 - Kurito Area becomes abandoned
1983 - Toga Junior High School graduating class is 9 students
1984 - Senzoku Branch School no longer used. 千束分校
1986 - Shimobara Branch School closed. 下原分校
1986 - Kitabara Branch School fully closed. 北原分校
1989 - Momosegawa Branch School no longer used. 百瀬川分校
1991 - Kamimomose Branch School closed. 上百瀬分校
1992 - Nakaguchi uninhabited. (Heyaneko research)
1996 - Senzoku Branch School fully closed. 千束分校
1996 - Taikanba Branch School fully closed. 大勘場分校
1996 - Takanuma Branch School fully closed. 高沼分校
1996 - Momosegawa Branch School fully closed. 百瀬川分校
1996 - Sakagami Elementary School closed 坂上小学校 (merged with Toga ES)
1998 - Toga All Persons School built, includes Junior High School and Elementary
late 1990s - Sorei and Oshiba settlements uninhabited. (Murakami research)
2004 - Nanto City merger, Toga Village becomes 南砺市利賀村.
2012 - Okutaikanba and Taikanba uninhabited
2015 - 18 junior high students, 16 elementary school students.
2016 - Takanuma uninhabited
2024 - Toga Junior High and Elementary closed and reopened as Toga School. 利賀学舎
2024 - 10 junior high students, 13 elementary school students.
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