March 31 is the cruelest day in Japan
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Tokyo, 2010.03.31
In Japan, companies tend to shuffle their employees around for the new fiscal year, which starts on April 1. This makes March 31 a day of goodbyes.
For Kenny it meant that he's losing three of his teachers—two of whom are moving to other schools. Mari suggested that we make a point of descending to the day care together to say goodbye, so we met with the one fellow who was one of Kenny's most direct caregivers. It was obviously really tough on him, as he was tearing over saying goodbye to other kids before we even got to him.
In happy times when the two had just met.
