The graduation ceremony of the senior high school students was short and sweet. It began with the entry of graduating students to the auditorium, followed by the introduction to the graduation ceremony by the teacher host. The students then sang the national anthem before they received their graduation certificate.
Unlike graduations in other countries, instead of the long ceremony of inviting each graduate up to collect their diplomas on the stage, Japanese ceremonies often only called up class representatives up to collect the diplomas on behalf of their graduating class and they would distribute them to their respective classmates later. Aside from that, another glaring difference was that not all students' families came to support. In this country, graduation ceremonies were mostly an event for friends and not for family. Well, except for Alinea.
