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Bankruptcy of Geos blamed on shrinking market for English conversation schools
The bankruptcy of major English school operator Geos Corp. is largely attributable to the shrinking market for English conversation schools in Japan, as a result of the declining birth rate and the economic downturn. “The entire industry has been in a slump, and we lost a large number of students because of the recession,” Kazumi…
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Geos Files For Bankruptcy
Geos Corp. said Wednesday it has filed for bankruptcy protection with the Tokyo District Court, saddled with debts of about 7.5 billion yen. The operator of English conversation schools will hand over 230 schools in Japan to subsidiary G.communication Co. The rest will be closed. G.communication, which took over schools from Nova Corp. in 2007…
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Major English school operator Geos goes bankrupt
Major English school operator Geos Corp. filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday at the Tokyo District Court with liabilities of about 7.5 billion yen, company officials said. Tokyo-based Geos operated 329 schools that had approximately 36,800 students. Nagoya-based G.Communication Group is set to take over 230 of the schools with some 29,000 students, while 99 other…
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Wife presses for details in death of deportee
The Japanese wife of a Ghanaian who died last month while he was being deported for overstaying his visa called Tuesday on police and the Immigration Bureau to disclose exactly how he died. “I want the government to unveil the truth as soon as possible to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents,” the wife of…
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Worker health checks to cover depression
The health ministry plans to make mental health checks mandatory in regular health examinations given at the workplace, health minister Akira Nagatsuma said Monday. The step is aimed at preventing depression and suicide, problems that have been making headlines in recent years, he said. A ministry task force, formed in January, is expected to propose…
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Foreigner suffrage opponents rally
Conservative politicians express outrage at DPJ plan Conservative intellectuals and key executives from five political parties were among the thousands who gathered in Tokyo on Saturday to rally against granting foreign residents voting rights for local elections. On hand were financial services minister Shizuka Kamei, who heads Kokumin Shinto (People’s New Party), Liberal Democratic Party…
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英語指導助手：千葉県柏市で「偽装請負」認定 授業できず
千葉県柏市の市立小中学校全６１校で３月末まで英語を教えていた外国人の指導助手（ＡＬＴ）２３人について、厚生労働省千葉労働局が、業務請負契約なのに学校の指揮下で働いていたとして１３日付で違法な「偽装請負」と認定した。是正指導を受けた市教委が１６日発表した。これにより、学校はＡＬＴの授業が新年度始められない事態に直面。同様の実態は全国的に多数あるとみられ、影響が広がる可能性がある。
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Chiba city’s native speaker English classes canceled after ALT contracts found illegal
Public schools here have been unable to start their native speaker-taught English classes this school year after the city’s board of education was accused of violating labor laws with foreign language teachers. According to the Kashiwa Municipal Board of Education, it has been instructed by the local labor office to change its labor relationship with…
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Japanese population declines by record 180,000 to 127.51 mil.
Japan’s estimated population decreased for the second year in a row, declining by a record 183,000, or 0.14 percent, from a year earlier to 127,510,000 as of Oct. 1, 2009, government data showed Friday. By prefecture, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba, Aichi, Shiga and Okinawa saw population increases as they did in 2008. Okinawa saw the…
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Population shrank by record 183,000 in ’09
Japan’s population has entered full-scale decline and shrank by a record 183,000 people over the past year, government data showed Friday. As of Oct. 1, the population stood at an estimated 127,510,000 after shrinking by a record 0.14 percent, contracting for the second year in a row. The year-on-year drop is the third to strike…