Some alumuni of our school are famous, including professional athletes, TV personalities and politicians. I'm not sure about my generation. I'd like to share my tentative idea on the relationship between a workaholic society and its education system The education system is a process to sort individuals by suitability for a workaholic culture. Promising students access to go on to higher education, where they learn how to process massive work loads. For example, university students must deal with assignments, presentations and exams under great pressure. Successful graduates get a job at a large corporation, where they devote themselves to work in exchange for a handsome salary and respectable social status. Taking national government staff as an example, they (these workers) carry huge responsibilities for the nation's future, working long hours every day and thinking about work 24/7. The same is true to for lawyers and doctors. Society gets/ squeezes as much as it can from of all these individuals. If you can be stretched, society will stretch you to the limit. Education teaches you how elastic you are. Society wants to keep you at your tensest. Kota san- Do you feel like you fit in with this workaholic society?