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Suspicions of political meddling have surfaced with revelations that a ruling party lawmaker accompanied the president of language school chain Nova Corp. to a meeting with Osaka Mayor Junichi Seki amid a court battle over the company's refund system. City government officials have confirmed that Nova Corp. President Nozomu Sahashi arranged for LDP Lower House member Yasuhide Nakayama to accompany him when he met with Seki last year... Nakayama admitted that he had arranged the meeting with the mayor and also accompanied Sahashi at the Nova president's request. The lawmaker confirmed that during the meeting he said he found no fault with Nova's refund system. "It is a politician's job to help out when a supporter is in trouble," Nakayama explained. "I never intended to exert any pressure"...more...
Why is this a problem? Don't the keitai companies do something similar? Lock you into a two year contract which you have to 'pay' to get out of?'article' wrote:.. Under Nova's system, students buy "points" in advance to pay for their lessons. The larger number of points they buy in bulk, the smaller the per-class fee.
But when students stopped midway through the course on grounds they could not make reservations as smoothly as promised, Nova calculated the points already used at a higher value, thereby slashing the refund for the remaining points.
Nova said the value of the used points should be calculated as having been bought in smaller lots..
Well, fuck. I'm going straight to the Industry Minister; I've lost millions on pints with four-finger heads since I've been in Japan..Mulboyne wrote:Consumer protection legislation has been getting stronger of late...
Probably none. It might have the opposite effect since Nova will be forced to offer more classes which before were impossible to reserve or unavailable..Takechanpoo wrote:How many fuckin part-time english teachers lost its job?
Well, somebody has to fuck your lonely Japanese women.Takechanpoo wrote:Fuckin part-time english teachers who dosent understand Japan and cant speak Japanese and behave arrogantly have lowered reputation of whole gaijins..
Takechanpoo wrote:Fuckin part-time english teachers who dosent understand Japan and cant speak Japanese and behave arrogantly have lowered reputation of whole gaijins.
These dudes are enemy against not only Japanese but also whole gaijins.
;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
Iraira wrote:Seeing as I ate some Japanese grown butaniku last night, and incorporated it's protein into my DNA, I can't say for certain that I am a "whole gaijin". Maybe 98.5%, maybe less. If you are a fecal-philliac, Takechan, I can express some of my droppings over to you to examine for my "whole gaijin content".
CrankyBastard wrote:I think he meant 'hole' gaijins. So unless you got some Japanese hole last night it don't count.
ichigo partygirl wrote:What are you getting at???
CrankyBastard wrote:I think he meant 'hole' gaijins. So unless you got some Japanese hole last night it don't count.
;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
Iraira wrote:Seeing as I ate some Japanese grown butaniku last night, and incorporated it's protein into my DNA, I can't say for certain that I am a "whole gaijin". Maybe 98.5%, maybe less. If you are a fecal-philliac, Takechan, I can express some of my droppings over to you to examine for my "whole gaijin content".
Takechanpoo wrote:I wholeheartedly want to eat your shit, mum
;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
Takechanpoo wrote:Fuckin part-time english teachers who dosent understand Japan and cant speak Japanese and behave arrogantly have lowered reputation of whole gaijins.
These dudes are enemy against not only Japanese but also whole gaijins.
CrankyBastard wrote:
The only hole Take will get is the one they bury him in.
Doctor Stop wrote:Taro's avatar, busted:
http://company.nikkei.co.jp/index.cfm?scode=4655
Takechanpoo wrote:Fuckin part-time english teachers who dosent understand Japan and cant speak Japanese and behave arrogantly have lowered reputation of whole gaijins.
These dudes are enemy against not only Japanese but also whole gaijins.
ttjereth wrote:There are obviously exceptions to the rule, but the vast majority of Nova teachers I've had the misfortune of meeting have been complete wastes of space who I'd rather not be equated with.
The fact that I am equated with them in the first place just because our skin happens to be the same color is, of course, and entirely different topic
;)"Yeah, I've been always awkward toward women and have spent pathetic life so far but I could graduate from being a cherry boy by using geisha's pussy at last! Yeah!! And off course I have an account in Fuckedgaijin.com. Yeah!!!"
Students and former employees of the Nova Corp. language school chain were critical of the company's practices in light of its suspension Wednesday for six months from recruiting students on long-term contracts...A 24-year-old woman from Wakayama who worked until December as a Kansai area representative at Nova's Osaka headquarters said about the company: "The catchphrase stating that if a student booked they could take a class at any time also implied that this included videophone lessons." She said, however, that the contract manual states videophone classes must not be mentioned unless the customer brings the matter up, and that there was a rule that staff could not volunteer information to students unless asked. Furthermore, when potential students took a 20-minute test to ascertain their level of language skills, they were made to sign a contract which stipulated that day as the first day of their contract. "I feel terrible as I'm aware I did some bad things," the former employee said.
Lessons went ahead as normal at a school near Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Wednesday evening, but all the students there expressed surprise at the suspension enforced by the ministry. A Nova pamphlet states that students can freely choose what type of lesson they want, when and where to take it and how many people will be in the class. "Because I couldn't reserve lessons, I couldn't use up the points I'd paid for. Staff told me that if I bought additional points, I could extend the time period for my lessons, but it was just an aggressive sales tactic," an unemployed 29-year-old male student said. A thirtysomething female company employee from Osaka said that she could not reserve lessons at a school in Kyushu and could only attend 10 lessons in three months. Nova staff recommended she take more expensive one-on-one lessons when she complained she could not use up her points in the specified time period. "The company thinks of profits more than students," she said...more...
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