Each year, the cherry blossoms of April are accompanied by the nervous march of over 400,000 fresh-faced graduates on their way to their new jobs.
Many of these new graduates, or "shin-sotsu," will have gone through more than 18 months of job hunting, called "shushoku-katsudo," or "shu-katsu" for short, to start their careers as soon as they graduate.
University students start job hunting as early as their junior year and attend related events organized by companies and the recruitment industry.
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