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Lemonchest
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The youth of Japan are truly lost.
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Sarukah
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Oh no! Lost is the youth! They chose a song akin to moving on and seasons to be what they would want as their graduation song!! Its sung by a voice program!! Everyone pack up and leave Earth, its over! Thanks to Project Diva, I knew it would be this song. Its pretty nice. |
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Wildikdog
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I'm actually dissapointed Sayonara Memories isn't higher.
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EricJ2
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To be fair, "Sakura Rain" IS a high-school graduation song, and the Project Diva video can yank heartstrings. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apn5-SmIhf4 If you have to pick one, that's the way to go. |
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brucepuppy
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I agree wholeheartedly with Sakura no Ame being no 1. Tegami is nice too, and Michi is one of my favorite Jpop songs all the time.
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omegaproxy
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Why ? because they chose a vocaloid song? LOL |
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Snomaster1
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Since we're on the subject of high school graduations in Japan,I might have an idea for an interesting yet silly high school graduation experience. They should have Hatsune Miku in a cap and gown not just sing her song but also conduct "Pomp and Circumstance" on a big television screen in high schools all over Japan. That way,they can have a traditional and not-so-traditional high school graduation. What do you think guys? As I've said,my idea is an interesting one but it's also a silly one.
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Mr. Oshawott
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I'm delighted that Sakura no Ame has the No. 1 slot!
 I imagine the feeling of both joy and sadness as I'm traversing through the park of cherry blossom trees.
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EricJ2
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That would be rather silly, as traditional graduating Japanese girls do not wear caps and gowns, but kimonos with hakama pants. |
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championferret
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ah yes, the youth of japan are truly lost because they are choosing a currently popular song over songs that were popular in the past, as kids do in the west.
Seriously, our high school had 'forever young' 5 years straight and the teachers were getting so sick of it they apparently cheered when one of the next years chose something else. |
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enurtsol
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Here's a little trivia for ya guys about the end of school year in Japan:
There's not much vacation break between the end of the school year and the start of the next level of your life, whichever that is. So the change happens quite quick and ya move on in a blink of an eye. Obviously the big breaks are on the winter and the summer, but as ya can notice here, the end and the beginning occurs in the spring, away from the big breaks. That's why the end of school year in Japan seems more important than in the West since there's no long summer break when ya can still see your old pals before moving on to the next level. That may well be the last time ya get to see the people who won't be with you anymore. (Though Japan has always been considering matching the school year calendar with the West. For one, those who would be attending Western colleges won't need to be waiting half a year, and foreign student exchange programs would match up semesters. And there won't be a big break like summer vacation in the middle of a semester that disrupts the learning flow of the class. But this goes beyond school matters in Japan since Japanese companies only hire graduates once a year in the spring, so shifting the school calendar would affect them too.) |
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championferret
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Pssst. It's not the 'west', its 'western countries in the northern hemisphere'. (Sorry, major pet peeve of mine. It made me pretty annoyed when things like the JET program adhere to the american school system in the way it starts/ends despite that having nothing to do with Japanese schooling)
In Australia, the end of the school year is incredibly important because it's literally at the end of the year. After it, there's christmas holidays, which, sure, are super long given that they're our summer holidays, but then there's a new school year that begins in - logically to me - the actual, literal new year. You may start this new year with completely different people than before, and end of year christmas cards have an entirely different significance for us because for many kids it'll be the last time any message was exchanged. The end of the school year has a type of closure that's different to other countries due to this. In that way I think we share some similarity with Japan's view of new school year and graduation and 'closure', although instead of singing songs about cherry blossoms it's christmas carols. tl;dr japan's obsession with graduation isnt a mystifying concept to me and it never really occurred to me that it was to anyone else, but it makes a bit more sense why it would be now. |
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enurtsol
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Well, at least due to the long holiday break, ya can still hang out with your friends after the end of the school year before starting the next. The same way after school ended, my friends were still hanging out together all vacation before moving on. In Japan, ya can literally be graduating high school one day, then just a few days later, you're sitting in college. There's no time in between to hang out before moving on your separate ways. |
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