[godwine]

For those who want to challenve the OP post, I suggest you watch a J-Drama name Dragon Zakura.

The main char. comment's about Todai is extreme, but he said something really really true: Much or of the society and its justice system is built by a group of people with knowledge, knowledge that was acquired from school. That is why, the society always operate in a manner that is in favor to those that has the proper education, simply because these rules and regulation are set by a well educated group of people. For the rest of the population, they will just have to live in a sub standard life.

While I don't totally agree to to this, it does hold true to show how important an education is in Japan. The general society call people who didn't end up in a University as "Baka", we understand this as "Stupid", but it really has a strong implication as "Retard".

Another thing with hiring someone with no degree is that, what will happen if this person need to see a client or business partner? What kind of image will the organization be presenting by sending someone without a degree? Thats a potential deal breaker as the other party may just consider this as a lack of respect.