Blizzardboy | A Kiwi in Japan

Lots of jokes go around about Nova and its fine bunch of hardworking gogetters when you live in Japan. Nova is one of the big four English teaching companies here in Japan a Japanese company that combines TEFOL with a McDonalds management style that has been pretty successful despite some over zealous expansion a few years ago. Which is another story.

According to the Mainichi Newspaper, 7 Nova instructors have been arrested for possession of pot and cocaine. While one imagines it could possibly make their lessons about more on edge, a bit more out there, this is the kind of thing that doesn’t go down well in Japan. Despite hemp having been an important part of the pre-American occupation economy, today the subject is seriously taboo.

Here is a link to the original 7 NOVA teachers arrested for possessing cannabis, cocaine story.

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