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#1. I know of several employees of Nova with disc problems arising from the cheap 300 yen chairs folding chairs that they use. It is not the teachers laying the blame on the office furniture, it is the doctors with signed documents saying so. One of the teachers is Steve Brown who was mentioned in an Asahi Shimbun article. It is translated on the Begunto blog.

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#2. The situation that came to mind was that of a woman in the US who spilled hot coffee on herself at McDonalds and won big time. Now, there are warnings on McDonald's coffee cups - Caution! Hot!

In the States, if you lose when you sue someone, you do not have to pay the defendants legal bills, so these kinds of cases are common. Sure, a lot are frivolous and abuse the courts; that's why Canada and other countries do not entertain such a system, but if it is available, why not use it?

I just listened to the EFL-Law.com (Paul Robertson, retired lawyer in South Korea) radio interview where he basically said you cannot sue the recruiters. And they know it, and that's why they get away with it. They can tell you anything they want and not be held responsible.

I see there are professional organizations for recruiters which do have standards. Maybe NOVA overseas companies ought to be compelled to join such organizations and live up to their standards.