Basically, if you’re a Japanese kid, these exams decide your whole future, and the rest of your life, and even your afterlife. What I mean is: where you go to high school decides where you’ll go to university, which decides what company you’ll work for, which decides how much money you’ll make, which decides who you’ll marry, which decides what kind of kids you’ll have and how you’ll raise them, and where you’ll live and where you’ll die, and whether your kids will have enough money to give you a classy funeral with
