I wonder if the Japanese authorities didn’t just decide the case against him wasn’t strong enough (or that his lawyers were fighting it too hard) and they might jeopardize their legendary 99% conviction rates, and they decided to look the other way while he “escaped.”
I can't blame him.<p>The Japanese justice system is messed up ... long detention periods to induce confessions and then not allowed to see your family is just so cruel.<p>So I take their conviction rate of 99% with a rather large bag of salt.
I would love to see a real deep dive on what happened with Ghosn. All I've heard about is snippets of Japan being unhappy that the alliance looked likely to end up with Nissan being a susbidiary of Renault rather than vice versa, then there's all these accusations of corruption - which probably aren't completely unfoundeed, but could easily just be a pretext. It feels like someone could write a full "Bad Blood" style piece about all the twists and turns and it'd be really interesting.
The Japanese conviction rate is the highest in the world, higher than dictatorships that coerce confessions through beatings. No one should reasonably expect a fair trial in Japan.