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Ex-Nova boss Sahashi arrested for alleged embezzlement

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka prefectural police search the headquarters of bankrupt Nova Corp. in Chuo Ward in Osaka on June 24 in connection with the arrest the same day of Nozomu Sahashi, former Nova president, on suspicion of diverting around 320 million yen in July from an employee benefit fund to reimburse tuition fees to people who canceled contracts for language courses. Nova was once the nation's largest chain of English conversation schools.

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Union for ex-Nova teachers files report against new employer

OSAKA, Japan - A labor union for teachers who worked at the now-bankrupt language school chain Nova Corp. filed a report Feb. 15 with the Osaka District Court saying the teachers' current employer G.communication Co. has dismissed a number of staffers against its initial accord to rehire all. Photo shows foreign language teachers claiming in a gathering in Osaka the same day that G.communication has failed to write and sign employment contracts with the teachers in violation of the labor standards law.

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G.communication opens 1st Nova school in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Takashi Ono, president of G.communication Co., speaks to reporters in Nagoya on Nov. 14 after the company opened its first new language school under the Nova name near a major train station in Nagoya to serve students including those who had enrolled with failed Osaka-based language school operator Nova Corp.

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Union to set up fund, program to support Nova teachers, staff

TOKYO, Japan - Bob Tench (3rd from L), president of the Nova branch of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu representing teachers and staff at the failed Nova Corp., meets the press in Tokyo on Nov. 1. The national union said the same day it will set up a relief fund for the teachers and a program whereby students can take their language lessons from their Nova teachers in exchange for basic food items or a meal.

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Nova teachers call for employment at Osaka schools

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign language teachers of collapsed Nova Corp., the largest foreign language school chain in Japan, ask the Osaka municipal office on Nov. 1 to hire them at Osaka city-run primary and high schools.

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Nova teachers call for employment at Osaka schools

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign language teachers of collapsed Nova Corp., the largest foreign language school chain in Japan, head to a rally near the Osaka municipal office on Nov. 1 to call for their employment. A number of Osaka city-run primary and high schools have asked Nova under contract to send assistant language teachers to them.

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Nova's executive suite for ex-company president Nozomu Sahashi

OSAKA, Japan - Court-appointed administrators of Nova Corp., the failed largest language school chain, on Oct. 30 allowed the media inside the executive suite at the company's administrative headquarters in Osaka that it said was used by Nozumu Sahashi, the former Nova president. Sahashi, who co-founded the company in 1981, has vanished from public view since he was removed in absentia by the company board on Oct. 25, a day before the company filed for court protection against creditors.

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Language school Nova granted court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - Katsuji Yamahara (R), chairman of the General Union, a labor union representing instructors working for Japan's largest foreign language school chain Nova Corp., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Oct. 26 after Nova was granted court protection from creditors under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law.

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Nova applies for court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - An employee of Nova Corp., Japan's largest language school operator, hands out press releases to reporters at the entrance of the company's administrative headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 26 after the company filed for court protection from creditors.

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Labor unions seek indictment of Nova over delayed wage payment

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign teachers at English-language school operator Nova Corp. hold up placards demanding that Nova pay wages owed to them in front of the Osaka Central Labor Standards Supervision Office in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Oct. 16. They submitted a petition to the office asking it to seek indictment of the company and its president, Nozomu Sahashi, on charges of breaching labor standards laws.

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Labor union asks gov't to secure employment of Nova teachers

TOKYO, Japan - A representative (L) of a labor union assisting teachers at scandal-hit English-language school Nova Corp. files a written demand directed at industry minister Akira Amari at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 9, asking the government to take action to secure the teachers' employment and prevent further disadvantages to students.

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Nova's foreign teachers demand payment of wages in arrears

OSAKA, Japan - Tristan Sime, a former teacher at scandal-tainted English-language school operator Nova Corp., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Sept. 27. A labor union representing instructors employed by Nova filed a request with labor standards supervision authorities asking that the company be ordered to pay wages in arrears to its foreign instructors.

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Nova's foreign teachers demand payment of wages in arrears

OSAKA, Japan - Representatives of a labor union of the scandal-ridden English-language school Nova Corp. file a petition with the labor standards supervision office in Osaka on Sept. 27 to force the Osaka-based company to pay wages in arrears to its foreign teachers.

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English school business Nova inspected over cancellation trouble

TOKYO, Japan - Private English school chain operator Nova Corp. has been inspected by government authorities for allegedly requiring high cancellation costs from students and having provided them with false accounts on its cancellation policy, government officials said Feb. 16.

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Labor union asks gov't to secure employment of Nova teachers

TOKYO, Japan - A representative (L) of a labor union assisting teachers at scandal-hit English-language school Nova Corp. files a written demand directed at industry minister Akira Amari at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 9, asking the government to take action to secure the teachers' employment and prevent further disadvantages to students. (Kyodo)

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Language school Nova granted court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - Katsuji Yamahara (R), chairman of the General Union, a labor union representing instructors working for Japan's largest foreign language school chain Nova Corp., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Oct. 26 after Nova was granted court protection from creditors under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law. (Kyodo)

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Nova applies for court protection from creditors

OSAKA, Japan - An employee of Nova Corp., Japan's largest language school operator, hands out press releases to reporters at the entrance of the company's administrative headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 26 after the company filed for court protection from creditors. (Kyodo)

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Nova's executive suite for ex-company president Nozomu Sahashi

OSAKA, Japan - Court-appointed administrators of Nova Corp., the failed largest language school chain, on Oct. 30 allowed the media inside the executive suite at the company's administrative headquarters in Osaka that it said was used by Nozumu Sahashi, the former Nova president. Sahashi, who co-founded the company in 1981, has vanished from public view since he was removed in absentia by the company board on Oct. 25, a day before the company filed for court protection against creditors. (Kyodo)

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G.communication opens 1st Nova school in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Takashi Ono, president of G.communication Co., speaks to reporters in Nagoya on Nov. 14 after the company opened its first new language school under the Nova name near a major train station in Nagoya to serve students including those who had enrolled with failed Osaka-based language school operator Nova Corp. (Kyodo)

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Nova's foreign teachers demand payment of wages in arrears

OSAKA, Japan - Tristan Sime, a former teacher at scandal-tainted English-language school operator Nova Corp., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on Sept. 27. A labor union representing instructors employed by Nova filed a request with labor standards supervision authorities asking that the company be ordered to pay wages in arrears to its foreign instructors. (Kyodo)

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Nova's foreign teachers demand payment of wages in arrears

OSAKA, Japan - Representatives of a labor union of the scandal-ridden English-language school Nova Corp. file a petition with the labor standards supervision office in Osaka on Sept. 27 to force the Osaka-based company to pay wages in arrears to its foreign teachers. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Nova president sentenced to 3.5 yrs in prison for embezzlement

OSAKA, Japan - Nozomu Sahashi, the founder and former president of English conversation school operator Nova Corp., gets inside a car after being freed on bail Aug. 26. Sahashi was sentenced by the Osaka District Court the same day to three years and six months in prison without suspension for embezzling 320 million yen from Nova's employment benefit funds. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Nova boss Sahashi arrested for alleged embezzlement

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka prefectural police search the headquarters of bankrupt Nova Corp. in Chuo Ward in Osaka on June 24 in connection with the arrest the same day of Nozomu Sahashi, former Nova president, on suspicion of diverting around 320 million yen in July from an employee benefit fund to reimburse tuition fees to people who canceled contracts for language courses. Nova was once the nation's largest chain of English conversation schools. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Nova president admits to embezzling, but counsel pleads not gu

OSAKA, Japan - Nozomu Sahashi (L), 57, the former president of English conversation school operator Nova Corp., leaves the Osaka District Court after his first court hearing on June 1, during which he admitted to embezzling employment benefit funds shortly before the company went bankrupt in October 2007. (Kyodo)

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English school business Nova inspected over cancellation trouble

TOKYO, Japan - Private English school chain operator Nova Corp. has been inspected by government authorities for allegedly requiring high cancellation costs from students and having provided them with false accounts on its cancellation policy, government officials said Feb. 16.

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Union for ex-Nova teachers files report against new employer

OSAKA, Japan - A labor union for teachers who worked at the now-bankrupt language school chain Nova Corp. filed a report Feb. 15 with the Osaka District Court saying the teachers' current employer G.communication Co. has dismissed a number of staffers against its initial accord to rehire all. Photo shows foreign language teachers claiming in a gathering in Osaka the same day that G.communication has failed to write and sign employment contracts with the teachers in violation of the labor standards law. (Kyodo)

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Union to set up fund, program to support Nova teachers, staff

TOKYO, Japan - Bob Tench (3rd from L), president of the Nova branch of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu representing teachers and staff at the failed Nova Corp., meets the press in Tokyo on Nov. 1. The national union said the same day it will set up a relief fund for the teachers and a program whereby students can take their language lessons from their Nova teachers in exchange for basic food items or a meal. (Kyodo)

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Nova teachers call for employment at Osaka schools

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign language teachers of collapsed Nova Corp., the largest foreign language school chain in Japan, ask the Osaka municipal office on Nov. 1 to hire them at Osaka city-run primary and high schools. (Kyodo)

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Nova teachers call for employment at Osaka schools

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign language teachers of collapsed Nova Corp., the largest foreign language school chain in Japan, head to a rally near the Osaka municipal office on Nov. 1 to call for their employment. A number of Osaka city-run primary and high schools have asked Nova under contract to send assistant language teachers to them. (Kyodo)

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Labor unions seek indictment of Nova over delayed wage payment

OSAKA, Japan - Foreign teachers at English-language school operator Nova Corp. hold up placards demanding that Nova pay wages owed to them in front of the Osaka Central Labor Standards Supervision Office in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Oct. 16. They submitted a petition to the office asking it to seek indictment of the company and its president, Nozomu Sahashi, on charges of breaching labor standards laws. (Kyodo)