Tadao Takayama

was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

He was also educator, namely principal of Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School, professor at Mukogawa Women's University and superintendent of education of Takarazuka City. Early life and education Takayama was born in Tokyo on June 24, 1904. He grew up in Kobe. He learned soccer while he was student at the elementary school attached to Mikage Normal School in Higashinada-ku, Kobe from 1911 until 1917. He graduated from Kobe Ittchu [Kobe First Middle School] (later, Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School) in 1922, Eighth Higher School (under the prewar education system, later, Nagoya University) and Tokyo Imperial University in 1931.

After retirement After retirement, Takayama worked at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. He also served as a professor at Hamamatsu College of Technology and Mukogawa Women's University. In 1948, he became the principal of Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School, his mother school. He worked for his mother school as principal for 18 years until 1965. After he retired from the position of the principal, he became professor at Mukogawa Women's University and in 1972 the superintendent of education of Takarazuka City.

On July 1, 1980, Takayama died in Tokyo at the age of 76.

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