A New Type of "Juken" Industry

It is popular for universities and colleges in Japan, with its birth rate declining, to hold joint meetings and to publish joint telephone-book-like booklets to explain or advertise themselves. The planners and publishers are flourishing. Meetings, events, booklets, brochures, and web-pages are springing up like mushroom, or, if you prefer a Japanese cliche, like bamboo shoot after rain. Nothing, however, really stands out, and some students and their parents are just hurried and pressed. This is where high school teachers are to listen to them.