Talk:Gaba Corporation

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Contents 1 Areas and IPO 2 External Links 3 Japanese text 4 Acronym? 5 Gaba ginza studio

[edit] Areas and IPO

1.) what is jonan and josei areas? should this say the Kanto, Chubu, and Kansai regions? These seem a lot more standard. Or "in Tokyo, Chiba, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe"

I'd still really like to alter this. Are there any objections? --(nobuyuki)219.108.24.231 09:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

http://www.gaba.co.jp/ls/index.html Link to show where locations are --(nobuyuki)219.108.24.231 14:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I see the reason for this is because the press release used is very very old and not reflective of the companies current operations

http://gabaga.seesaa.net/category/2750798-1.html this page contains the addresses of learning studios showing tokyo, chiba, yokohama, nagoya, osaka, kobe.

http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~aej80020/schoolhyouka_gaba.html this page also lists the areas the company is in --(nobuyuki)220.16.122.75 02:50, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

2.) shouldn't it mention the company's IPO offering? that seems pretty major for a company.--(nobuyuki)220.12.252.3 07:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Looking at the stock performance pages, I can tell the IPO was sometime in dec. 2006 , but don't know exactly when. If you happen to know exactly when then please insert the information and I'll see if I can track down a source.Statisticalregression 10:08, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/comment/1030 This article may not be valid enough to use as a citation, but it does show that the IPO was December 1 2006 on Mothers. The Japanese wikipedia article says the same thing.

http://www.tokyoipo.com/top/en/index.php?id=pre&seqid=1699 this may validate the IPO Date and some details

http://www.ipo-investor.com/archives/50701719.html This corroborates some of the IPO Details with the last URL, but not the date

http://www.kabutocho.net/stock/ipo/0612gaba.html this one also looks like it corroborates.

--(nobuyuki)219.108.24.231 09:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

There seems be a lot of edits recently... I want to know why this link was added "News and commentary related to teaching English in Japan" when it does seem to be serious website. I don't think joke websites are very encyclopedic. Please justify why it's there. onegaiitachimasu. --Hydenobuyuki (talk) 16:33, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

The external link has been removed for the time being. The user freebilly has posted links to the same site on several japanese eikaiwa articles. Without some sort of good justification, I would consider it spam. Please justify it. --Hydenobuyuki (talk) 04:19, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese text

do we need some sort of citation to tell us that the japanese script for the company name is 株式会社GABA (GABAマンツーマン英会話) like the Tokyo Stock Exchange http://www.tse.or.jp/listing/new/200612/12_gaba.html or Oricon noting it as GABAマンツーマン英会話　http://english.oricon.co.jp/company/gaba.html　--Hydenobuyuki (talk) 04:29, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Are they seriously advertised as "Man-to-Man" eikaiwa? Hello gender equality. --ZayZayEM (talk) 04:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

It's nothing to do with gender... that's just what the term for 1on1 is in Japanese マンツーマン　--Hydenobuyuki (talk) 13:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

株式会社 in this article is written as kabushiki kaisha; however, in the GEOS article it is written as kabushiki gaisha.

The wikipedia article on this type of company says

Both kabushiki kaisha and the rendaku form kabushiki gaisha are used. The "K" spelling is much more common in the names of companies and in English-language legal literature, whereas the "G" pronunciation is more common in Japanese. In Japanese, "kabushiki gaisha" can be used as a prefix (e.g. 株式会社電通 Kabushiki Gaisha Dentsū) or as a suffix (e.g. トヨタ自動車株式会社 Toyota Jidōsha Kabushiki Gaisha).

Is there a preferred usage for wikipedia? --Hydenobuyuki (talk) 02:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Acronym?

Is it an acronym? If is not, it should not be capitalized, per WP:MoS. Chris (talk) 05:51, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

It stands for "Girls be Ambitious, Boys be Audacious" according to the company's website --Hydenobuyuki (talk) 13:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gaba ginza studio

i restored part of the article that was deleted that actually defined what the "next generation" learning studio consisted of, and changed the tense to reflect past-tense as it is my understanding that it's not longer open (or not being used in that way). If someone could just put in the date when the studio closed/changed that would be great Statisticalregression (talk) 05:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)