You play it off as if this could have happened anywhere and you compare it to the US and say similar outcomes could have happened there too. But you are ignoring the fact that the Nisan C level people just went to the police and told them to arrest this gaijin and the police just went and did that without knowing what crimes, if any, he had committed. That would only happen in Japan because gaijin have no rights and police have to do what the superiors tell them to do. Now they had a gaijin who wouldn't confess and no case to take to court so they had one option left - let him escape and now he IS guilty of something and they can also take all his frozen assets. That was the game we all saw.
Thanks Ulrike and Bruce. This was a great Webinar - wonderful combination of subject area expert and topic expert established a great dynamic. It really brought out the complexities of the Ghosn case. I learned a lot.
I don't understand this Japanese consternation regarding Ghosn's compensation. The Nissan board voted on that, right? Ghosn didn't set his own compensation autocratically. So, it seems like a lot of sour grapes. Couldn't they have let him go instead of paying him that salary?
They could just have fired him if it was just about compensation. It's clear that his arrest wasn't about compensation because the CEO Saikawa a few months after the arrest was found doing the same thing and all he had to do was resign. Hari Nada's leaked emails show that the motive of the arrest was to remove the influence of Renault on Nissan. If Nissan fired Ghosn, he would have still been the CEO of Renault and Renault has 44% ownership of Nissan. So he still would have been able to influence how things operate at Nissan through his CEO position at Renault. The only way they could have removed any influence he had on Nissan was to arrest him.
You play it off as if this could have happened anywhere and you compare it to the US and say similar outcomes could have happened there too. But you are ignoring the fact that the Nisan C level people just went to the police and told them to arrest this gaijin and the police just went and did that without knowing what crimes, if any, he had committed. That would only happen in Japan because gaijin have no rights and police have to do what the superiors tell them to do.
Now they had a gaijin who wouldn't confess and no case to take to court so they had one option left - let him escape and now he IS guilty of something and they can also take all his frozen assets.
That was the game we all saw.
Thanks Ulrike and Bruce. This was a great Webinar - wonderful combination of subject area expert and topic expert established a great dynamic. It really brought out the complexities of the Ghosn case. I learned a lot.
I don't understand this Japanese consternation regarding Ghosn's compensation. The Nissan board voted on that, right? Ghosn didn't set his own compensation autocratically. So, it seems like a lot of sour grapes. Couldn't they have let him go instead of paying him that salary?
They could just have fired him if it was just about compensation. It's clear that his arrest wasn't about compensation because the CEO Saikawa a few months after the arrest was found doing the same thing and all he had to do was resign. Hari Nada's leaked emails show that the motive of the arrest was to remove the influence of Renault on Nissan. If Nissan fired Ghosn, he would have still been the CEO of Renault and Renault has 44% ownership of Nissan. So he still would have been able to influence how things operate at Nissan through his CEO position at Renault. The only way they could have removed any influence he had on Nissan was to arrest him.
Very informative, Thank you.
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