Today's Picture: 054
Mar. 21st, 2009 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanIs of:
graduation! The Japanese school year generally begins in April and ends in March. My uni holds two graduation ceremonies: one with all the university bigwigs in which the president presents diplomas to representatives of each faculty, and a second ceremony in which the presidents of the individual faculties present diplomas to all the students in that department.
The first ceremony is attended by virtually no one--the students you see in the shot were pretty much the only students who attended, out of around 300. The second ceremony had a better attendance rate: over 95% of the graduates attended, which is a vast improvement over last year when apparently more students failed to attend than not. Not all the faculty's professors attended either (but my zemi prof was there, which I take as a good sign).
Aside from seeing my friends get their diplomas, the ceremony was of interest primarly because Japan's sexism was so clearly on display throughout. The student representatives for the first ceremony were male for the Law, Sociology, International Relations, and Public Policy facultiess; female for the Literature, Foreign Language Education, Applied Humanity, and General Studies divisions. I should also mention that the vast majority of the 300-odd graduating students belonged to the first four faculties and that (in my department at least) female students outnumber male students.
Oh, Japan.
That will be all.
graduation! The Japanese school year generally begins in April and ends in March. My uni holds two graduation ceremonies: one with all the university bigwigs in which the president presents diplomas to representatives of each faculty, and a second ceremony in which the presidents of the individual faculties present diplomas to all the students in that department.
The first ceremony is attended by virtually no one--the students you see in the shot were pretty much the only students who attended, out of around 300. The second ceremony had a better attendance rate: over 95% of the graduates attended, which is a vast improvement over last year when apparently more students failed to attend than not. Not all the faculty's professors attended either (but my zemi prof was there, which I take as a good sign).
Aside from seeing my friends get their diplomas, the ceremony was of interest primarly because Japan's sexism was so clearly on display throughout. The student representatives for the first ceremony were male for the Law, Sociology, International Relations, and Public Policy facultiess; female for the Literature, Foreign Language Education, Applied Humanity, and General Studies divisions. I should also mention that the vast majority of the 300-odd graduating students belonged to the first four faculties and that (in my department at least) female students outnumber male students.
Oh, Japan.
That will be all.