Gaba Corporation

Gaba Corporation
Company type	Private (Subsidiary of Bain Capital)
Industry	Language instruction
Founded	Tokyo, Japan (July 1995)
Headquarters	Tokyo
Key people	Natsuki Tokubuchi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ;
Number of employees	851 contracted instructors, 615 other staff (January 2022)
Website	www.gaba.co.jp

Gaba Corporation (株式会社 GABA, Kabushikigaisha Gaba) is a chain of eikaiwa schools (English conversation schools) in Japan. The company was founded in July 1995 and is currently headquartered in Shinjuku Ward in Tokyo with learning studios in the Tokyo, Chiba, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, and Fukuoka areas. The current president and CEO is Daisuke Terada.

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.

As of July 2019 the company has 50 learning studios. In January it had 615 staff and 851 sub-contracted instructors across Japan. In November 2013 it was reported that Gaba had 21,300 students.

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