News yesterday that Nova, the self-proclaimed McDonalds of English Schools in Japan, has gone into bankruptsy. I certainly won't bid a fond farewell to a company for whom staff and students were a long second to profits, whose infamous ticket system ripped off gullible clients and who, more recently, failed to pay their Japanese staff and foreign teachers.
Of course, Nadia and I did have a vested interest - our own little conversation school in Sanda-but that does not excuse the corporate greed that embodied the Nova system. I am truly sorry for the 4,000 or more foreigners who will now either have to find new work, or more likely, be forced to leave Japan. And for the decent people who signed up in good faith for English classes.
On another topic altogether, the house is only a few tantalising weeks from completion, or at least, complete enough for us to move in. Oh what a saga it has been!
And on a sad note, our choir friend Arthur, who has been fighting cancer for a couple of years now, is close to death. I know where he is going will be a brighter place for him: to see the very face of God! But we will miss him. Truly.
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