Consumer Agency Closes Eikaiwa

[Mulboyne]

Yomiuri: English school ordered to close
The Consumer Affairs Agency and the Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday ordered a Tokyo-based English-language conversation school chain operator to suspend operations due to its coercive method of selling its services to university students and others. Fortress Japan talked customers into signing contracts for the purchase of English-learning programs, often telling students, "You'll never be able to find work with your current English-language abilities"...According to Fortress Japan's Web site and other sources, the company has operated English-language schools under various names, including Global Trinity, in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai and Fukuoka...The agency and the metropolitan government judged that the way Fortress Japan solicited customers constituted false explanations and harassment, which are illegal. They intend to publicly censure Zenken Career Center -- which was renamed as Linguage Corp. -- a Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo-based company that was entrusted to manage the English conversation schools...more...

"Fortress Japan" seems like an odd name. It's almost like calling a Japanese language school on Britain something like "Little Englander".

[Christoff]

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"Fortress Japan" seems like an odd name. It's almost like calling a Japanese language school on Britain something like "Little Englander".

Perhaps more like calling a japanese language school Empire Established.

[BO-SENSEI]

"You'll never be able to find work with your current English-language abilities,"

Its kind of like a plastic surgury clinic going around to ugly people telling them, "you'll never get laid looking like that." The truth hurts and sure it could help them get business, but unfortunately that kind of recruiting is illegal.

[dimwit]

Its kind of like a plastic surgury clinic going around to ugly people telling them, "you'll never get laid looking like that." The truth hurts and sure it could help them get business, but unfortunately that kind of recruiting is illegal.

The problem is that they end up paying for 'Stripper English' taught by Maria Cochfilov or 'Remittance English' taught Josef Zvwcsd.

[Behan]

The Consumer Affairs Agency and the Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday ordered a Tokyo-based English-language conversation school chain operator to suspend operations due to its coercive method of selling its services to university students and others. Fortress Japan talked customers into signing contracts for the purchase of English-learning programs, often telling students, "You'll never be able to find work with your current English-language abilities"...

Sounds like what Nova sales staff did.