Released on: April 30, 2008, 4:19 am

Press Release Author: R. Scott Hillkirk

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Japan's Amity Corporation announced the opening of its 75th
school in Japan dedicated to training Japanese students to speak, read and write
English.Amity is Japan's largest English-teaching private institution for school-age
children with more than 20,000 students throughout Japan.


Press Release Body:

Largest private language school system in Japan exclusively
for children's English education continues to lead industry.

Chicago, IL, March 1st, 2008: The Amity Corporation today announced the opening
of its 75th school in Japan.

Hiroshima Ujina Amity will open its doors as the latest school in the network of
Amity private schools dedicated to teaching children English in Japan. Takato
Yamasaki, President of Amity Corporation, made the announcement earlier today from
the company's head office in Okayama, Japan. The Ujina Amity School will be located
in a vibrant area of economic growth in Hiroshima city, Japan. The AEON Amity
Corporation of Japan is the leading English educator for children in Japan with over
20,000 students nationwide.

Amity is a division of the AEON Corporation of Japan, the leading conversational
school system in Japan since 1973. Amity has been operating independently since 1994
and the Amity recruiting offices have been hiring Native English Teachers tohref=\"http://www.amityteachers.com/0101eeaa/010104s_e/index.htm\"> teach children
English at their schools
in Japan since 2005. The Amity Corporation hires talented professionals from
all over the world to live and teach English
in Japan at one of their private language schools. At Amity, Japanese children
benefit from the diversity of their teacher's cultural experience while studying
English.

Amity recruits EFL teachers throughout the calendar year from their North
American offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Annually Amity recruiters
hire over 130 professionals to move to Japan to become EFL instructors at schools
across the main island of Honshu.href=\"http://www.amityteachers.com\">http://www.amityteachers.com

Scott Hillkirk is an international
recruiter for the AEON Amity Corporation of Japan promotinghref=\"http://www.amityteachers.com/0101eeaa/index.htm\"> teaching English in
Japan and training ESL teachers to teach English in Japan. Before his work as a
recruiter, he taught children EFL for several years in Japan as Head of Teacher
Development for Amity. He also has experience working as a journalist. His
reporting has appeared in national publications including USA Today and Men\'s Health
Magazine. For more information please visit:href=\"http://www.amityteachers.com\">http://www.amityteachers.com