in 2010, the company was purchased by the cram school operator because they wanted to move into the teaching of 5th- and 6th-grade students due to the new compulsory english teaching at that age level. at that time, it operated 199 schools in the kantō region — of which 46 were franchised—and had four subsidiaries: shane corporation japan, shane corporation kita kanto, shane corporation higashi kanto, and shane corporation minami kanto.