More students falling victim to dodgy vocational course canvassers

Thursday 05th November, 06:28 AM JST

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moonknightskye at 09:51 AM JST - 5th November

greedy
timorborder at 10:07 AM JST - 5th November

High pressure sales tactics. What a disgrace.
franz75 at 11:08 AM JST - 5th November

Like AEON and their lessons to become English Teachers for kids. That's a scam.
diggerdog at 11:53 AM JST - 5th November

its the japanese thing of being unable to say no. Its amazing how they take advantage of this themselves. Its so easy to pressure sales here. I love it when people try it on me though it makes me laugh.
kirakira25 at 02:03 PM JST - 5th November

@Franz75 AEON run lessons to become an English Teacher for Kids??? Wow! Do you know if they really get people signing up for that??!

I always laugh when I see the GEOS/Disney English/AEON etc guys posted by the baby rooms at Akachan Honpo and such places. They are looking down at the table and see my feet and the buggy approaching, and up comes the head with a HUGE smile and a......oh......foreigner......and down the head goes again as if nothing happened!
Yelnats at 02:14 PM JST - 5th November

How can a wimp persuade another wimp to take one of those classes. All wimps.
chewbakayaro at 03:01 PM JST - 5th November

What are the names of some of these companies? I see some of these tissue distributors around my university here and I always wondered what they were.
franz75 at 03:14 PM JST - 5th November

kirakira25: the government will supposedly massively recruit English teachers to teach primary school children. AEON as a program to train you to become one of them. Forgot to mention that is only for Japanese. Anyways, someone close to me got into this scheme. Told her not to, but, "Hey! If I lose my job I can still teach English!". Of course this training costs an arm and leg. Chatting with some people whom already passed this certification are still waiting for the job. A job where you teach only a ridicule amount of hours per week at a low pay. So, this is scam and goes perfectly with this article. So to answer your question, yes and the classes seem to be full.
kirakira25 at 04:51 PM JST - 5th November

Ah! That makes sense now! So these guys are being trained not to be full and proper primary school teachers but just the Japanese equivalent of ALT`s in primary schools?

Im shocked at how expensive training courses can be in Japan. Before I met my husband he paid hundreds of thousands of yen for a GMAT prep program which was utterly crap - he showed me the notes he had kept after I met him, and believe me, that company had no intention of helping anyone pass - and whaddya know, a "discount" if you have to repeat the course. Thankfully, by that time I had met him and stopped him blowing any more cash.
shinjiikari45 at 12:23 PM JST - 6th November

Those poor Japanese... "me speak no english?" hahaha