Category Archives: Eikaiwa

Industries left short-handed after foreign workers flee Japan following nuke accident

April 26, 2011 in Berlitz, Eikaiwa, Immigration, News, Trainees

Tens of thousands of worried foreign workers left Japan shortly after a crisis at the nuclear power plant that was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, causing serious labor shortages in some industries.

原発事故：戻らぬ中国人労働者　縫製業は減産も

April 25, 2011 in Berlitz, Eikaiwa, Immigration, News, Trainees

東日本大震災と東京電力・福島第１原子力発電所事故の影響で、日本国内で働いていた外国人労働者が大量に国外流出した影響が深刻化している。原発事故後に一時、東日本や日本からの避難勧告を出した国々は勧告を解除し、欧米系の外国人は徐々に戻りつつあるが、中国など近隣のアジア系外国人の戻りは鈍いままだ。

Linguage Sued For Unfair Labor Practices

March 31, 2011 in Action, Announcements, Eikaiwa, News

Today at the Tokyo Labor Commission, Zenkoku Ippan Tokyo General Union sued language school Linguage (AKA Linguaphone) for a host of Unfair Labor Practices under the Labor Union Act (Act No. 174 of June 1, 1949).

Most public elementary school educators feel specialists should teach English

February 18, 2011 in ALT, Berlitz, Eikaiwa, News

More than 70 percent of public elementary school educators believe teachers specializing in English should instruct English at elementary schools rather than homeroom teachers, according to a survey conducted by Benesse Corp.

Japan must ease migrant rules or lose carers – minister

February 17, 2011 in Eikaiwa, Immigration, News, Nursing, Trainees

Japan must completely revise its immigration rules to deal with a shortage of labour in an ageing society or risk losing workers to China, whose population is also greying, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said on Wednesday.

English Conversation (Eikaiwa) is A Con Game? Engrish Lessons From Yakuza 3 (英会話が詐欺)

February 17, 2011 in Eikaiwa, News, Nova

What’s not well known is that a number of english conversation schools were and are still run by anti-social forces, some of them essentially being yakuza front companies. There are numerous ways these schools can be used as a semi-legal con-game.

68% of elementary school teachers lack confidence in teaching English

February 16, 2011 in ALT, Berlitz, Eikaiwa, News

A majority of elementary school teachers who are about to start teaching English as a required subject to fifth and sixth graders this April lack confidence in teaching the subject and feel burdened by it, a recent survey by a private research body showed Tuesday.

Only 20% of English conversation teachers give classes in English

January 25, 2011 in ALT, Eikaiwa, News

Only 20 percent of English oral communication teachers at Japanese public high schools were giving classes in English in 2010, far short of the “100 percent” target three years from now, a governmental survey showed Friday.

Concern over use of Japanese language in English conversation classes at high schools

December 15, 2010 in ALT, Eikaiwa, News

Less than 20 percent of public high schools have been enforcing an English-only rule in their English conversation classes during the 2010 school year according to a survey, causing alarm at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Oral communication (OC) classes were introduced for English studies at high schools in 1994 [...]

Nova chief’s sentence shortened

December 3, 2010 in Eikaiwa, News, Nova

The Osaka High Court on Thursday shaved 18 months off the 3 1/2-year prison term of the founder and former president of Nova Corp., who was convicted of embezzling ¥320 million from the defunct English school chain’s employee benefit fund. The counsel for Nozomu Sahashi, 59, plans to appeal. Sahashi pleaded not guilty at his [...]