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Gaba Corporation
is a chain of eikaiwa schools (English conversation schools) in Japan. The company was founded in July 1995〔Metropolis issue 387 (Leading the Way ) Retrieved June 11, 2014〕〔Gaba website (Press release ) Retrieved April 2, 2012〕 and is currently headquartered in Shibuya Ward in Tokyo with learning studios in the Tokyo, Chiba, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe areas. The current president and CEO is Masatoshi Saito.〔〔Gaba Corporation website (CEOメッセージ ) Retrieved June 11, 2014〕〔Gaba Corporation website (代表取締役の異動に関するお知らせ March 5, 2015 ) Retrieved March 8, 2015〕
The company provides language lessons on a "one-to-one" (one student and one teacher) basis and using textbook lessons and online (computerized) instructor aids, language and vocabulary drills, and guided conversation topics.〔Business Week (Business Week, Gaba Corporation Details Retrieved June 11, 2014 )〕 Gaba describes itself as a "man-to-man eikaiwa". In Japanese, "man-tsū-man" (マンツーマン), a katakana phrase adapted from English, means "one-to-one", referring to the company's one student/one instructor lesson style.〔Gaba Corporation website (Homepage ) Retrieved June 11, 2014〕
As of October 2015 the company has 41 learning studios.〔Gaba Corporation website (ラーニングスタジオ ) Retrieved June 17, 2015 〕 In March 2015 it had 553 staff and 1,106 sub-contracted instructors across Japan.〔Gaba Corporation website (Company information ) Retrieved June 17 30, 2015 〕 In November 2013 it was reported that Gaba had 21,300 students.〔Japan Times (Six years following bankruptcy, Nova boosts the brand November 3, 2013 ) Retrieved October 6, 2014〕
==Meaning of the company name==
The company name "GABA" is an acronym for "girls, be ambitious; boys, be audacious!".〔Webcitation.org (Webcite Gaba Query Result ) Retrieved June 11, 2014〕 According to a speech given by co-founder Hideki Yoshino, he chose this name because he had a keen interest in physical fitness, and named it after Gamma-Aminobutyric acid, an amino acid used by bodybuilders. Many other large Japanese English conversation schools at the time also had four letter names, such as Nova, GEOS, and Aeon, and giving the school a four letter name would help it fit in. It seems likely the acronym was created second, and seems to originate from William Smith Clark, a nineteenth-century American academic who taught at Sapporo Agricultural College, now Hokkaido University. When leaving Japan, he said to his students "Boys, be ambitious!" This is now the motto of Hokkaido University.
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