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Tom Cruise blasts Eikaiwa schools in Japan

Actor attacks industry as "quackery" and "pseudo-education"

TOKYO, Japan (GTA) -- While promoting his upcoming DVD release of Mission Impossible III in Tokyo last weekend, Tom Cruise made headlines again by going off the deep end and slamming the Japanese eikaiwa industry for being, according to his opinion, an "over-priced sham masquerading as legitimate learning."

Bewildered witnesses described Cruise's behaviour as "wacky" as he continued a nearly five-minute long rant after being asked if he would ever participate in advertisements for English schools, as celebrities like Ewan McGregor have done in the past.

"First of all, I've never accepted English Conversation," Cruise spoke to reporters. "You cannot possibly sit there and tell me that Eikaiwa legitimate form of education."

When asked what evidence he had to support this viewpoint, Cruise angrily answered back.

"Look, I have studied about these so-called English schools, ok? You haven't. I have read numerous books and journal articles on the topic, and in no way can you consider it real education. I can give you the references."

Although it was suggested that some students enjoy their lessons and may even improve their speaking abilities, Cruise merely shook his head as he grinned, muttering to himself.

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English teachers in Japan were "mediocre at best" and in many
cases "had big issues."

Cruise was very emphatic as he attacked the credentials of the top English schools in Japan including GEOS, NOVA, GABA, and AEON, or as he called them "the obscene four-letter words of Japanese English education."

"Look, could you just listen to me? The Nova method, AEON training, the GABA Belt-up system, all of it is about 90% pseudo-education and 10% quackery," he emphatically stated to reporters. "For crying out loud, they've got students purchasing these 20,000 yen textbooks when they could probably just pay a measly 250 yen for a used copy at Book-Off."

Teachers we spoke to were alarmed at the latest Cruise flap.

"I've always been a big Cruise fan up till now. But if he is going to call Eikaiwa a 'bastion of incompetence' well my gut reaction was that he's finally lost his marbles," said Mike McDougal of GEOS of Urayasu City in Japan's Chiba prefecture. "Shame on you, Tom. Shame!"

Gaba teacher Wayne Hartley agreed. "When I heard Tom Cruise crackpot theory on how teachers can't possibly make much more than 'bare minimum effort' after teaching nine or ten forty-minute lessons on a Saturday, I just have to laugh. Seriously, Tom Cruise. Come back to Earth because we miss ya, buddy."

"We've always known Tom to be an somewhat eccentrical, but how could he even dare suggest that large English schools in Japan were nothing more than 'greedy incompetent bastards' who were going to end up phasing out full-time salaried workers with health care and social welfare benefits in favor of so-called 'part-timers' with dubious qualifications--all while sacrificing the actual quaulity of their product?" Hartely asked. "I can't believe I paid 1,800 yen to see MI:III."

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