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Aeon (株式会社イーオン, Kabushikigaisha Īon) is a chain of English conversation teaching companies in Japan. [1] It is considered one of the historical "Big Four" eikaiwa schools . [ 2 ] The company operates 320 branch schools throughout Japan, and maintains staff recruitment offices in New York City and Los Angeles .
By the year 1874, there were 91 foreign language schools in Japan, out of which 82 of them taught English. And in 1923, Englishman Harold E. Palmer was invited to Japan by the Ministry of Education, where he would later found the Institute for Research in English Teaching in Tokyo and introduce the aural-oral approach to teaching English.
AEON-Amity, commonly known as Amity is a chain of private English schools ( eikaiwa) in Japan. It operates independently from the larger AEON corporation since 1994. AEON schools primarily focus on adult students, whereas Amity schools cater predominantly to children, ranging from babies to teenagers. The company is headquartered in Okayama and ...
Eikaiwa kyōshitsu (英会話教室) or Eikaiwa gakkō (英会話学校)[1] are English conversation schools, usually privately operated, in Japan. It is a combination of the word eikaiwa (英会話, English language conversation) and gakkō (学校, school) or kyōshitsu (教室, classroom). Although the Japanese public education system ...
GEOS株式会社ジオス. GEOS (株式会社ジオス, Kabushiki Kaisha Jiosu) was one of the Big Four [ 1] private eikaiwa, or English conversation teaching companies, in Japan. Its extensive network of overseas schools made it the world's largest language school chain. [citation needed] The firm went into bankruptcy in Japan on April 20 ...
ECC Foreign Language Institute (ECC外語学院, -gaigo gakuin) is one of the major private English teaching companies or eikaiwa in Japan. [1] It is part of the ECC group. [2] ECC (Education through Communication for the Community) is based in the Kansai region of Japan and also has many branches in the Chūbu and Kantō regions.
Aki's company became Aeon, focusing on language learning in Japan. He remains Aeon's chairman as of 2010. Kusunoki's company became GEOS, focusing on global language learning with focus on English language education. GEOS and Aeon remained competitors until April 2010 when GEOS filed for bankruptcy protection.
Gaba Corporation (株式会社 GABA, Kabushikigaisha Gaba) is a chain of eikaiwa schools (English conversation schools) in Japan.The company was founded in July 1995 [2] [3] and is currently headquartered in Shinjuku Ward in Tokyo with learning studios in the Tokyo, Chiba, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and Fukuoka areas.