Before 6:00 a.m. the following morning, people crowded the gates of the top 120 institutes. It was the day the institutes would announce their accepted students' names.
The institutes would send the names to the local education bureau that afternoon. After compiling the names, the education bureau would report them to the Ministry of Education. After the ministry compiled the names and entered them into the system, the students could find them online.
Therefore, the fastest way to determine if the top 120 institutes had accepted the students was to look at the names that morning. Of course, Kyoto received the most attention among the 120 institutes.
More than an hour remained before the announcement, yet people had already crowded the entrance to the institutes.
The crowd consisted of students, teachers, parents, and spies from various institutes. Many citizens also watched the show alongside friends from the news media all over the country.