Japan’s club culture is different from that back home.
Due to the quality-oriented education promoted by the Japanese government, for Japanese children, from the time they start school—whether it’s elementary, middle, high school, or university—club activities basically run through their entire student life.
Therefore, the experience of club activities also becomes the youth that most Japanese people miss the most.
Among them, there is also one most important point.
Club activities allow one to get to know many seniors who have already graduated.
These seniors will become very important aids for newly graduated rookies.
This brings up Japan’s ‘mentorship culture.’
Seniors have already established themselves in society and accumulated a lot of experience, so they can provide a lot of resources to juniors, giving them a certain advantage in employment.
It’s like the difference between participating in campus recruitment yourself and having a senior’s internal recommendation back home.
Of course, the dynamic that promotes mutual assistance within ‘academic cliques’ is mainly because people who graduated from the same school gather together and can more easily form an important group within a company to obtain common interests.
Therefore, club activities do not just represent hobbies; they also become a social platform for a student to get to know seniors through activities and then receive their care.
It could be said that with Haruto’s current financial power, ‘caring’ for others was simply a piece of cake.
As long as he made the club famous, he could naturally get to know those girls in the name of the club and then invite them to join under the gimmick of an entertainment company cultivating idol stars.
This was a good reason that wouldn’t seem abrupt and would increase the opportunity to get to know each other.
The more Haruto thought about it, the more he felt it was a good plan.
The corners of his mouth curled up slightly as he began to calculate how to form and promote the club.
After he finished relieving Kanako’s itch, Haruto went to Katsuko Kurose to apply for the club.
However…
Katsuko Kurose had a cold expression, her brow tightly furrowed.
Her eyes were full of dissatisfaction and concern as she bluntly expressed her strict refusal to Haruto. Read this novel at novelping.com for the best experience.
“Haruto, I must say, you are an international student from China. Adapting to the learning environment here takes time. This morning I was still worried that you wouldn’t be able to keep up with the learning progress here. Now, look at you—you’re actually thinking about applying for a club? Don’t you think about it? With your current situation, how can you have so much energy to balance both? Don’t let your studies become a mess, and the club collapse because of your lack of energy. That would be terrible.”
Katsuko Kurose leaned back in her office chair somewhat tiredly, slowly raising her hand to rub her head, her eyes full of concern and seriousness.
“Haruto, you have to be clear that the most important thing for you right now is to put all your heart into your studies. Being able to get into a good university in the future is the more important thing for your future development. Don’t put the cart before the horse.”
“Uh…”
Haruto was slightly stunned and subconsciously scratched his head, for a moment not knowing what to say in response.
What Katsuko Kurose said was indeed reasonable.
If he were just an ordinary international student, newly arrived, just adapting to the completely new environment and catching up with the intense course progress would probably be enough to make his head spin.
Where would he have the extra energy to carefully manage a club?