I am happy that the government is helping out students who lost so much money after the chain of Nova language schools closed last fall. But I have seen few signs of the government caring for the teachers who were left out in the cold. Read the full... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Sat, Feb 02 2008
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