Archive for October, 2007

WOTD - JapaneseJ-WOTD: 自転車操業

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more focus by the media on what the English language school Nova really was. Nothing more than a long lived Ponzi Scheme.

The Implosion of Japan’s Super Nova

Last Friday (26th October 2007), Nova filed for bankruptcy and court protection from creditors, and also temporarily closed all of its 1000+ English conversation schools. It is hard to imagine any other event which could cause as much disrupt the the “Eigoken” foreign population in Japan, short of war or Government meltdown.