Hiroshi Okamoto
Recruit
“I want to die.”
During February 2013, this e-mail was sent by my best friend in my university, who was doing his job-hunting then.
In Japan, more than half a million students participate in job-hunting simultaneously every year.
Students go into this frantic game with their desire and anxiety for their future careers.
“Recruit” is a personal story of Yo Toshino, my best friend from my university, and his job-hunting experience.
This is also just one of the stories amongst more than half a million job-hunters in Japan.
Bio
Okamoto was born in 1990 in Tokyo. He graduated from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University with a degree in Social Science and International Relations in 2014. After graduating, Okamoto was working as an video creator and editor at a video production in Japan. He then started his career as a photographer and film director. Hiroshi mostly focuses on East African countries and Japan in these days.
Cinema….
And death shall no dominon
Powerful project
When I first awoke this morning and picked up my phone and this came up and I saw all the tiny white shirts, ties and dark suits, I thought this must be an essay about Mormon missionaries. Then I got to my first coffee and discovered it was not about Mormon missionaries at all, but like a good essay on Mormon missionaries would do was about the hardships society can place on its young people coming of age within. As Bob states, powerful project.