Power the Young Japanese Student,

Power

The young Japanese student, Hotaka Mori, is currently attending his local community college. In terms of family, he is the second child, but oldest son in his home. As such, he is the most likely candidate of his family to inherit his father's social role, occupation, and profession. In other words, as the eldest son, he in will inherit his father's position of power in Japanese society.

In Japan, men and women have very clearly defined roles in terms of power. Men concern themselves with the workplace, business and public life. Most men dedicate themselves to a single company throughout their lives, after which they leave their accomplishments as a legacy to their eldest sons. Married women are expected to take charge of all aspects of the household, including the household economy. They are also in charge of children's education, which is an arduous task. Because of this busy schedule, few women enter the Japanese workplace. It is with this background that Hotaka enters the community college.

Hotaka will probably not have the opportunity to choose a career of his own, if widely different from his father's occupation. Eldest sons are expected to follow the father's footsteps. This entails that his university studies will focus on this direction, and there is little opportunity for Hotaka to expand his horizons by means of overseas study, for example, unless this also focuses on his father's occupational direction.

Furthermore, because children are so driven to study long hours from a very early age, they are not particularly motivated to study very hard at college. This furthermore makes foreign study opportunities unviable for his particular situation. A better opportunity might be for Hotaka to improve himself in the direction set by his father, and use this to gain promotional merit at work.

Hotaka's current mental power strengths are at an extremely high level. According to the Japanese cultural requirement, his education was overseen by his mother. This occurs from kindergarten age until the child leaves school. At the end of the school career, the average Japanese child is then highly educated. Hotaka is no exception, while his high level of intelligence also counts in his favor. Hotaka is not physically very adept, but enjoys water sports such as swimming and sailing. In general, physical prowess is not something he will need during his future career in his father's company.

Another element that counts in Hotaka's favor is the fact that he has a particular affinity for his father's work. He is very communicative with his father, and enjoys learning from him. He sees entering his father's role as an opportunity to further the family legacy. Like his father, he also feels that family values and traditions are highly important not only for the stability of Japanese culture in general, but also for the Japanese individual specifically.