Yup
Aka shame. In the weeks and months following Japan’s surrender in 1945, there were a large number of suicides in Japan. In part that was super ordinates apologising to subordinates who had followed them during the war, and not just military.
In Japan, one’s status is/was set by high school, for life. EG If you fail, you are/were forever junior to your classmates who passed.
It is my understanding that in terms of status, university in Japan is/was not as important as high school.
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In the mid 1980’s my wife and I were addicted to a Japanese soap opera, called ‘OSHIN’. The protagonist is born in 1900.The series follows her life until 1980. Oshin is a not-very-subtle model Japanese woman. The show was so popular in Japan that it was played every night, for 15 minutes, in a loop, for years. I found it a fascinating look at Japanese culture, a much for what it did not mention as for what it did mention.