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The Salesians of Don Bosco is a Roman Catholic Institute in which mainly educates young men to go into priesthood, in which their headquarters is currently in Rome. The founder Joan Bosco (Don Bosco) (1815-1888), born in Piemont (a small village located in northern Italy), had finally become a priest after continuing to strive for priesthood while fighting with poverty.

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Joan Bosco had worked in being a father figure to many young men in both as an educator and as a priest. He had welcomed the younger generation hoping to work in the city by providing housing, education, recreational facilities, and even opened middle schools, high schools, and polytechnic schools in hopes to train them in becoming successful men in the society.
Following the same education theory he then established a friary, which was later on named Society of St. Francis de Sales (also known as Salesians of Don Bosco). It was named after St. Francis de Sales who was known to be the Saint of compassion and docility, which is an essential psychology in the education of such institution.
In 2009, the friary has celebrated its 150th anniversary since the presence of their first member in 1859. To celebrate such event the Holy relic of Don Bosco (a part of his bones and a piece of his writings) had come to Japan in 2011. In February 16, 2011 the relic had made its visit to our school in which there was a ceremony where all students and staff had participated in.

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The Salesians have made its rapid growth in their activities after entering the 20th century during the times of both innovation and war, supporting and caring for young men by building churches, schools, and welfare facilities all around the world.
The Salesians engage in one of Don Bosco's education philosophy "The Salesian Preventive System" in their teachings, with currently having 2,350 schools (from elemtary-highschool) in 129 countries, approximately 17,000 members in the Salesian society (as of 2009) along with many other supporters. Other than the friary there are also the Salesian Sisters (Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco) and the Caritas Sisters of Jesus which branch out from the Salesians in which are very active in running facilities such as welfare facilities and kindergartens, providing education and care for women around the world.