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		<title>Berlitz union wins raise, bonus in suit settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mccrostie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The four-year legal battle between management and teachers at Berlitz Japan was declared over Thursday as both sides signed an agreement to end the company&#8217;s lawsuit against union officials. Claiming an 11-month strike by unionized teachers to be illegal, Berlitz Japan had sued five teachers, two union executives and Begunto, the teachers&#8217; union, for &#165;110 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlitz court ruling unequivocal on basic right to strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hearing more than three years of testimony, the judge took only a minute to read the court&#8217;s verdict rejecting Berlitz Japan&#8217;s &#165;110 million lawsuit against striking teachers and their union and reaffirming organized labor&#8217;s right to take industrial action. According to the Feb. 27 Tokyo District Court ruling, &#8220;There is no reason to deny [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threatened Goldman Japan workers unionize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past year has been anything but business as usual for the financial industry. Faced with a frosty economic climate, financial service companies have been busy chopping dead wood. Last year, 200,000 financial service jobs ended up on the cutting block worldwide. In Japan, that meant layoffs at famous firms including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, HSBC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign students back but numbers look likely to fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re back. Worries that foreign students would abandon Japan following the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and accompanying fiasco at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have proven to be largely unfounded. According to Ministry of Justice figures, 70,170 foreign students left Japan between March 12 and April 8. No one knows how many more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomb tourism Saitama style</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mccrostie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crawling in and out of graves isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s idea of a good time. For those willing to give it a try, though, Yoshimi Hyakuana in Saitama Prefecture makes for an interesting day trip out of Tokyo. Literally meaning, &#8220;100 holes of Yoshimi,&#8221; the Yoshimi Hyakuana National Historic Site preserves 219 ancient tombs carved into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaba teachers challenge &#8216;contractor&#8217; status</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mccrostie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Long accustomed to being ignored, being forgotten proved too much to take for unionized teachers at Gaba language school. On Oct. 4, the General Union registered an official complaint and request for an investigation with the Ministry of Finance&#8217;s Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC). The union accuses Gaba Corp. of lying in its 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talks drag on, teachers fired in Berlitz case</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 20 months of legal wrangling, neither side has managed to snag a win in Berlitz Japan&#8217;s &#165;110 million lawsuit against five teachers and their union, Begunto. On the recommendation of the case&#8217;s lead judge, the company and union have been in court-mediated reconciliation talks since December. The agreement to enter the talks came after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOEIC: Where does the money go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mccrostie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a country of test-takers, the Test of English for International Communication has become one of Japan&#8217;s most recognized exams. In 2008, people in Japan paid &#165;4,040 &#8212; or slightly less if their company or school paid a &#165;100,000 membership fee &#8212; to take the TOEIC Institutional Program (IP) at their company or school 940,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOEIC no turkey at 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mccrostie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Test of English for International Communication turns 30 this year. In three decades it has risen from humble beginnings to become one of the best-known tests in Japan. In December 1979, 3,000 people sat the first TOEIC. In 2008, people in Japan took it 1.7 million times. Many were repeat customers; about one-third of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlitz blitz against union bogs down</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mccrostie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After the second court hearing on April 20 in Berlitz Japan&#8217;s lawsuit against unionized teachers, the legal fight seems bogged down in a form of trench warfare. In December, after a year of strike action by over 100 teachers, the company filed a lawsuit against seven union members. Named in the suit are five Berlitz [...]]]></description>
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