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Temujin · Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 90 Location: Osaka

I went to my regular Japanese class today to discover that the school is gone. Just completely vanished. There was absolutely nothing inside.

My teacher was waiting for me outside the school and told me that EII had run out of money and had closed. Apparently, the teachers had not been told, they just turned up for work on the 5th and found nothing, and couldn't contact the company by any means. They hadn't been paid for 4 months.

I've lost a hell of a lot of money and EII has not contacted me (nor apparently their own staff) in any way - they've just vanished.

EII is (was) a national company with schools all over Japan. Their website is still up: http://eii.or.tv/index.html

Anyone else here a former EII student? Anyone have any advice?

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. Guess I know which school not to go to because I'm searching for one. My advice would be to file a police report. Would you mind telling me a little about the course?
Good luck to you T,
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cornishmuppet · Joined: 27 Mar 2004 Posts: 642 Location: Nagano, Japan

Were the teachers Japanese or foreign? That they'd continued to work despite not getting paid for as long as you say strikes me as simply idiotic. Knowing how dedicated the Japanese are to their jobs I could believe it from them though.

I feel for you, that sucks. I hope you didn't lose too much cash.

furiousmilksheikali · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:31 am Post subject:

I had thought about getting lessons from them in Osaka, and I'm glad I didn't. It seems that this is a standard tactic for schools that close. To tell no one and run away with whatever cash they still have.

Didn't the English-teaching company, the Bing Bang Boom club, do something similar?

Where were you taking lessons Temujin?

Temujin · Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 90 Location: Osaka

I was taking lessons in Umeda. I paid for rather a lot up front in order to "save money" in the long run - a big mistake in hindsight. I'll try to follow this up legally but I don't have any particular optimism. My teacher reckons the people gutting the offices when they turned up for work at the start of the year were Yakuza types.

Sweetsee · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2302 Location: ) is everything

How long is a course and how much is it?

wintersweet · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:06 am Post subject:

Just ran across this story in the news:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070308TDY02006.htm

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

NCB eikaiwa did pretty much the same thing, giving their foreign teachers 24 hours' notice, but that hardly helps since they hadn't been paid for a month and a half or so.