Thrown suddenly out of work, language teachers with Nova Corp. in Tokyo were quick to react to their employer's move Friday to file for court protection from creditors.
"This was in the back of my mind," Genevieve Latimer, who was visiting a government-run job center in Shinjuku Ward, said of Nova's decision. "I haven't even received my September paycheck," the 32-year-old Australian said.
Job-hunting just minutes away from Nova's Shinjuku school, where she taught for more than five years, Latimer said it was her Japanese boyfriend who happened to catch the news on TV and informed her of Nova's action.