Vocational school students "turn out" for the ceremony
1,500 people attended under cold weather
February 8, Tokyo, Japan - Cheerleaders show their stuff, performing for some 1,500 students from various professional schools in the Tokyo metropolitan area during a kickoff rally on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
Although Japan's jobless rate in December 2011 improved 0.1 point from November to 4.6 percent, still 2.75 million Japanese are jobless. An estimated 203,000 students are due to graduate professional schools throughout the country in March, of which roughly 52 percent have found some kind of (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO) AYF -mis-