"A towering triumph" - The New York Times
"Spellbinding in its raw, visceral, physical intensity" - The Guardian
"What the hell was all that about?" - an utterly baffled father.
The kids, in the true spirit of Fame, put the show on right there! And we all watched. And wondered. What do they mix in to the school milk?
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The school year here in Japan ends this month so March is a seemingly never ending procession of graduation ceremonies. They like their graduation ceremonies here. Oh, they really do. You finish in the Nursery School and go to run out the door - not so fast, graduation ceremony. At the end of six years in elementary school - graduation ceremony. Get through Junior High School - hey, graduation ceremony. Go on to High School and three years later, a tad predictably at this stage, graduation ceremony. Higher education beckons and yes, four years later, you've guessed it, graduation ceremony. Maybe your ambitious, continue your third level studies and do a Masters, and lo, and indeed, behold, a whole two years later, another graduation ceremony, just in case you had forgotten what the preceding five were like. And maybe by this stage you have become a hardcore addict, who desperately needs his fix of bathetic speeches and arcane rituals, so why not go for broke, get a doctorate and three years later find yourself at yet another graduation ceremony.
Then, of course, there are the corresponding 'Entrance Ceremonies' for all these educational milestones. And somewhere in between, maybe a smattering of actual learning.
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