Fortress Japan
Fortress Japan (Katakana: フォートレスジャパン) is a Japanese company that operates eikaiwa English conversation schools under brands including Global Trinity （Katakana: グローバルトリニティー）.[1] The Consumer Affairs Agency and the Tokyo metropolitan government shut down the company[2] for six months[3] in February 2010 due to its coercive marketing practices,[1] which included false explanations and harassment—both illegal under Japanese law.[1]
Branch history
[edit]The first school was opened in Osaka in 1986. The next year, Tokyo and Nagoya schools were opened. The Fukuoka-shi branch that opened in 2005 was its first in Southern Japan, and in the next year the Sendai branch began operations in Northern Japan. In July 2009 the Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka branches changed their branding to HER-S (ハーツ).
Sites offline
[edit]Both the global-trinity.com and her-s.net websites have been taken down pursuant to the governmental suspension of operations order.
External links
[edit]- Nambu Foreign Workers Caucus English school ordered to close / Court warned Fortress Japan last year over coercive sales practices February 19, 2010
- 山本ケイ 消費者団体が英会話スクール「グローバルトリニティー」運営のフォートレスジャパンに、不当勧誘の中止を申し入れ 2008/06/26
- Press release 消費者庁 ニュースリリース Archived 2011-03-22 at the Wayback Machine PDF
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Fortress Japan that operates Global Trinity and other English-language conversation schools ordered to close by gov. and Consumer Affairs Agency". Yomiuri Shimbun. Feb 19, 2010. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "英会話教室会社に勧誘中止命令 違法に就活中の学生誘う". Asahi Shimbun. 2010-02-19. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
- ^ "英会話教室運営のフォートレスジャパンに業務停止命令". 英語教育 News. 2010-02-19. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
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