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Ex-Nova head arrested over misused funds ‘320 million yen used to refund tuition fees’
Nozomu Sahashi, former president of the failed language school chain Nova Corp., was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of instructing the firm’s accountants to misappropriate the reserve funds of the firm’s employees. The Osaka prefectural police also arrested Toshihiko Murata, a former deputy manager of Nova’s accounting department and a former president of Nova Kikaku, a…
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Former Nova chief arrested
Sahashi grilled over misuse of ¥320 million in worker benefits The Osaka Prefectural Police served the warrant for the alleged embezzlement after questioning the 56-year-old Sahashi on a voluntary basis starting in the morning. Sahashi, who headed what was once Japan’s largest English-language school chain, is suspected of diverting the ¥320 million in reserve funds,…
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Nova, fired president face charges over unpaid wages
Failed English conversation school chain Nova Corp. and its sacked president Nozomu Sahashi are poised to face charges for not paying wages to about 400 employees, according to the Osaka Labor Bureau. Bureau officials are set to send documents to prosecutors accusing the company and its former president of failing to pay about 105 million…
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Police arrest founder of Japan’s top language school
Police on Tuesday arrested the founder of Japanese language school Nova on embezzlement allegations, capping the fall of a businessman whose company had hundreds of thousands of students. Police in the western city of Osaka arrested Nozomu Sahashi, the founder of what was Japan’s largest chain of language schools until last year, on suspicion of…
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Nova chief may face unpaid wages charge
The labor ministry’s regional bureau in Osaka is planning to send information to prosecutors possibly later this week on Nozomu Sahashi, former president of Nova Corp., on suspicion of nonpayment of wages to language instructors, sources said Monday. The Osaka Prefectural Police are separately planning to launch investigations to build a criminal case against Sahashi,…
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Ex-Nova boss Sahashi facing embezzlement probe
Police are poised to begin an investigation into former Nova Corp. President Nozomu Sahashi upon suspicion of embezzlement, sources said. Sahashi used a mutual aid society for Nova employees to transfer about 320 million yen from the employees’ welfare fund into a Nova account in July last year. Nova was on the brink of collapse…
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Ex-Nova chief faces criminal investigation
The Osaka Prefectural Police will soon open a criminal investigation against the former president of failed language-school chain Nova Corp. on suspicion of embezzling a ¥320 million special employee welfare fund, sources said Sunday. Nozomu Sahashi is suspected of ordering the accounting staff at the Osaka-based firm to transfer all of the money in the…
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Nova ‘paid bills with employee welfare fund’
About 300 million yen contributed by employees of the bankrupt language school chain Nova Corp. to a staff welfare fund was transferred to a company bank account in July to cover operating costs and done without the approval of employees, the police have said. According to the police, former Nova president Nozomu Sahashi ordered the…
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Good news from grass roots
First up, the labor unions (i.e. the ones that let non-Japanese join, even help run). Their annual marches in March, for example, have made it clear to the media (and employers like Nova) that non-Japanese (NJ) workers are living in and working for Japan and that they are ready to stand up for themselves, in…
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Ex-Nova teachers face firings half year on
Foreign and Japanese employees hired by Nova Corp.’s successor complained of unreasonable dismissals and pay cuts Saturday as they marked the half-year anniversary of the giant language school’s collapse. Nagoya-based G.communication said it had hired about 1,400 foreign instructors by the end of December, but that about 400 of them had quit by the end…