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Can you do a video on Singapore? My country has very flawed and corrupted government and our law system is really bad. Its always guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent and we don't have human rights when it comes to law. Please see this Jake Tran, I love your videos and I hope someone can share something about how terrible our country is and the crimes we have committed as a country against other countries around the world.
Nah i prefer career advancedment based on the most productive employees. Only bad thing is some undeserving fucks can get it by fucking the boss, or being friends with them.
Inspirational indeed. Quoting him "You don't think about the past, or the future. You only think of the present moment." Carlos Ghosn when he was been wheeled in the box escaping from Japan for his freedom.
By exporting their culture through anime,manga, video games, etc, the Japanese have managed to promote themselves in a positive manner. Japan as a country is something else though, especially their judiciary. Great video Jake
@Byush m It's just normal. Nothing is worse as a crime than being competent man. Police don't care about serial killers, rapists and stalkers. They only care about people who politicians envy.
Result: This high profile case has sabotaged Japan's ability to attract senior executive talent and to transform the culture of their business operational environment. In the 90s I was offered a mid level management position in Japan which would have required me to relocate there. I turned down this lucrative offer as I understood enough about Japanese culture to know that I would be treated as a 2nd class citizen and would have zero chance of promotion.
My desires and skill level is nowhere near yours but growing up I actually wanted to live in Japan because I was fascinated with their culture as an adult I've learned enough about their culture to know that I made a wise choice not trying to move there I kind of regret learning the language I should have just learned Spanish instead. But high school needed know any better and I had it in my heart to live there but I found out unless you were born there you can never become a citizen of Japan and I've learned enough from the US to know you do not want to be a second class citizen in any country If you cannot become a citizen of a country unless you are there for business you probably don't want to try to live there. I have whole heartedly decided I do not want to live in any country where I cannot become a citizen while also keeping my US citizenship (wanted to move to Germany before too But I learned even though Germany allows dual citizenship it does not allow it with the US so if I was to become a German citizen I would have to renounce my American citizenship, Even though I'm not too keen on being an American because I'm not a nationalist, I still think it would be a very unwise thing for me to let go of it)
The don't really want transformation. So it is really like preparing your own funeral if you go there wanting to 'transform' things. I do still want to live in Japan, especially the rural areas, but I don't ever want to work there! As an outsider and a woman it would be a double whammy and I can't really keep my tongue in my mouth if I feel a thing is unfair
I see now why black people move there and love it so much. They use to being treated as a second class citizen anyway but blacks people have not problem moving into their culture completely. They want you to have their culture and not the other way around. At least they don’t have to worry about being killing or hang over there. My mom friend son with over there to study but they offered him a job at the college. Be honest with you I knew he will never come back the place never with though the slavery thing as their racist isn’t as bad as European countries. White people always found it harder there because they not use to with black people being talking about all the time (how white treat them) but they don’t understand they do it thousand times worst than the Japanese to black and the black are born on USA etc soil. He loves it and every black person that goes there loves it some don’t make it due to how expensive Japan can be to live there they even have your own tax you have to pay not being Japanese and if you want to keep your USA citizenship you have to pay USA tax on top of regular taxes.
@@avirei98 It‘s untrue that you can‘t become a citizien of Japan if you‘re not born there. Being born there has actually nothing to do with it, you either have to have at least 1 Japanese parent, or you have to naturalize by living in Japan for 5 years. Naturalazing in Japan is actually easier than in most European countries like Germany or the UK. You really only have to live there for 5 years and not be a convicted criminal, plus you have to write a small essay on why you want Japanese citizenship, which sounds hard, but it’s not. I know people who only had N3 Japanese abilities (intermidiate level) and managed to do it. In Germany or the UK you actually have to pass written exams about the country‘s politics and history in order to qualify, plus you have to live there for longer than 5 years (it‘s 8 for Germany and I think 10 for UK, but I‘m not 100% sure). And in the UK, once you have permanent residency you can‘t become a citizen, while in Japan you can. It‘s true that Japan doesn‘t allow dual nationality, but most countries don‘t, including the UK and Germany only allows it if you‘re a citizen of another EU country. I agree with everything else you stated. As a Japanologist I would advice every foreigner who doesn‘t have a deeper understanding of the Japanese language and culture against moving to Japan. It‘s a rude awakening for most people. But I‘ve somehow seen this claim „you can‘t become a Japanese citizen“ on UA-cam and other websites quite some time and I don‘t understand where people get this information from, it‘s just not true. Unfortunately I can‘t post links because UA-cam automatically removes them now, but just go and look up Japanese nationality law online. It‘s clearly defined. I don‘t understand why so many people get it wrong.
Even if the man is guilty of everything the Japanese accuse him of, they treated him horribly as a suspect and I wouldn't be confident he'd receive a fair trial in the country under those circumstances.
They treat every arrest in Japan like that, it’s why they have a 99% conviction rate. There is no legal right to counsel until court and the holding limit without charges is like a year. Not to mention the political class made up of centuries old dynasties that control most high powered government positions. It’s the American’s fault for joining hands with the imperial government/barely reforming legal systems in the post ww2 occupation because they thought the communists would take over if the fascists were outed.
This video is propaganda. Nissan and Renault make terrible cars. Moreover you need to get the opinion of operational workers and how they are treated to know the real story. This story just highlights how messed up the system is and what scoundrels executives are. This guy Carlos is the lowest of the low together with his accomplices and the corrupt Japanese system.
@@louvendran7273 But did Gohsn do anything illegal though? It doesn't look like it. I live in Japan and I know how ridiculous it can get here and how large corporations have pull in the government. Working for one of the largest corporations in Japan, this hits very close to home for me. While I disagree with how Carlos treated long-time employees as expendables, none of what he did was necessarily out of the bounds of law it would seem. All those layoffs would include hefty severance packages by law here. It is not easy to fire an employee in Japan. And there is a culture here where people get employed throughout their lives--basically devoting their lives to the company. Carlos disregarded this and I can see why it made him a lot of enemies. It would seem that Carlos only looked at the numbers and treated the expense of lay-offs and corporate restructuring as investments. As talented of a businessman he is, he failed to look at the stark cultural differences between the western world and the more conservative Japanese culture. That said, I condemn what Japan and Nissan did to Gohsn. I really feel sorry for him. He went to Japan, did his job, and satisfied Nissan board members and investors. They got him to make money, and he did. If anything, the board members are more at fault. They knew what Gohsn's style was before acquiring him. Only during the recession, when he wasn't able to meet his goals did they start making moves to get rid of him. Those charges against him look trumped up. Like I said, it's hard to fire someone in Japan. It's either you let him go with a golden parachute or they manufacture false charges against him. That this whole farce backfired on them is the only consolation for me.
@@DeanGl Well said, in my opinion it's a sum of evils pitted against each other. I have never been to Japan or know much about Carlos but after reading and watching a few reports, I feel that many are trying to bash the Japanese which I feel is not innocent nor is the defendant with his methods.
They were just embarrassed that a foreigner came in and saved a Traditionally Japanese company so shame and jealousy crept in and they railroaded him plain and simple. I wouldn't be confident he'd receive a fair trial in the country under those circumstances.
Carlos is a legend they teach his techniques in universities and the Japanese even made a cartoon about him. But their hatred for the foreigner made them loose a legend
Legend or not, you don’t break traditions or culture. The reason America is so fkd up is cause we have no traditions or loyalty to anything but ourselves.
@@jokerpilled2535 But that's on Nissan, not the CEO. You don't bring a new CEO just to do exactly what others did. That's insanity. Ultimately, the board gave him the go sign for all of that.
Japan judicial system is not very ideal. It is pretty much, "guilty until proven innocent". Like example, in USA, once arrested, you have 48-72 hours (it is usually 48 hours, the 72 hours is there because of federal holidays and weekend issues) to make an initial case, and a bail hearing to set bail or no bail and held in jail if the personnel is deemed to dangerous to be released even if not convicted. (This is a bail hearing) In Japan though, this rule is VERY different, even without trial or conviction, Japan is allowed to have 21 DAYS before the bail hearing. AND you are allowed to add "new charges" to reset bail. (This is illegal in USA, you CANNOT reset bail time before hearing under any circumstances) Because of this, Japan police, they initially charge you with 1 crime, then it is 21 days, and JUST before your time is up and for bail trial, they "add another crime" for now you are charged with 2 accounts. So now, you are reset for another 21 days fresh. This strat can be done infinitely until you run out of additional crime to add. The japan police do this so they can get a "conviction statement of guilt" from the person with their signed consent with no lawyer involvement. Is this highly illegal? In other 1st world nations, YES. However, in Japan, it is not. (For example, the neighbor country South Korea, it is 14 days of lock time before initial bail hearing, and also, it cannot be reset under any reason.) So for example, say they arrest you and the police have 10 charges initially, but they will officially charge you with 1 crime, then before 21 days, they'll reset the bail time with a 2nd charge, and they'll keep doing this until they use up their 10 charges. Also during this time, they'll dig up dirt to see if they can find additional charges they can add later to keep extending bail. There is a reason why in Japan, conviction rate for arrested individuals is 99.99% for the prosecutors in trial. (Which is an INSANELY high conviction rate for a 1st world country) Alot of the times, if you get arrested in Japan, it is just easier to "admit your guilt" in hopes for a lighter sentence.
You're correct in describing the medieval Japanese judicial system, but please don't insist on the bail. You're obviously American, so please learn this: 1. In many if not most of the European countries, the system of bailing people out of jail is rarely used, even if legal. The prevalent principle is this: if the defendant doesn't risk a too heavy prison penalty AND if the risk for him to intimidate or harm the witnesses or to tamper with the evidence is low AND if the risk for him to flee is low AND if he's not considered a risk for the society, THEN he's just released for free. OTOH, it's illogical to release, even on a hefty bail, someone accused of being a mass murderer, because they could kill again (and flee, because he risks a life sentence). 2. In Japan, a foreigner is ALMOST NEVER released on bail. They don't trust foreigners. At all. So the "reset time" is not about the "bail time" but about the "preventive detention" (the continental European term). Replace "keep extending bail" to "keep extending the preventive detention." What's outrageous about it, beyond the multiple resets, is that in Japan they contradicted this common principle: - if we have enough proofs against him, we're putting him to trial (in Europe the preventive detention is usually limited to 30 days, time in which they can build a case if there is one); - if we don't have much proof when the preventive detention ends (no resets!), but we still believe he can be convicted, we're putting him to trial (not very common in the US, because of the costs of a trial that would be lost by the prosecution); - regardless of the proofs, if we, the prosecution, believe no judge would condemn him, we just release it, case closed. Now, they didn't have any proof against Carlos Ghosn, so what they did amounts to psychological torture (and w/o any lawyer!), which is illegal everywhere else. If you resist to this torture and don't "confess," you can stay 1-2 years under arrest and w/o seeing a judge. Oh, but in Japan, the conviction rate is not 99.99%, but more like 99.4%. To reach 99.8%...99.99%, you must try Russia and China. Otherwise, the phenomenon of "admitting your guilt" in the hope of a lighter sentence is very common in the US. It's called "the DA is offering you a deal," and most cases go through it. What you see in the movies, with a jury and a full trial, only happens in about 4% of the criminal cases.
@@Imdan92 Correct. This is what a lot of people DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND when travelling to foreign countries like China, Dubai, Thailand, Saudi, Bali etc. People are so deep in denial, they always think “Oh it will never happen to me”. Or my favourite “If that was true, it would be on the news”. It never occurs to them, that truely important things are never on the news.
@@derludditus2758 I started to read your post thinking you were shilling, but that's a very good point about comparing the use of the extensions of apprehension and denial of bail with the American practice of negotiating a plea with the DA. BOTH systems are coercive to confessions.
I share Jake's view of Asian culture. I grew up with a ton of Chinese pride, but while I still love the heritage that I was born with, age and experience has given me a more critical view of Asian culture. There's a lot to like, but the conformity and mindless adherence to tradition can create uncreative drones. That's why their smartest come here, where their creativity and intellect will be rewarded.
it's pretty straightforward why Nissan wants him gone, it's not just an issue of patriotism but an issue of national interest. if Nissan merges with a foreign company, or have majority foreign shareholder and operations, the company could very much lose at lot of revenue for the Japanese government(especially bad considering the debt crisis), and the company could also lose a lot of special favors or subsidies from the government, and that is not to mention the Yakuza investment in the company.
Your assumptions are correct, Japan has two types of companies foreign and domestic. The foreign companies like Sony, Panasonic are their to pull in Gaijin investment whereas the domestic companies are run by the Japanese Shadow government Nissan, Nikon and NHK and are ultimately their to befit the Japanese people at the top ultimately Japanese will never let these companies fall into the hands of Gaijin, because they are more than just companies or brands.
why didn't they do anything with sony lol? sony is now completely american almost??? the headquarter moved to america, also they has not had a single japanese exec in years
In Chinese, we have a thousand years old meme: 功高盖主, 必死无疑 In a kingdom, when your effort/contribution/power is exceeded the king, you are dead. Probably true everywhere nowaday
Remember when the japanese government refused to extradite former president of Peru Fujimori to face criminal charges simply because he was japanese descended?
That is exactly why Japan is never allowed to have a military ever again for all eternity, and will forever lick American boots. Because they enjoy being racist little fucks and we already showed the world once how we feel about it.
Japan is so hostile to foreigners, my aunt did a lot of business there in the 90s. As a Lebanese, I was convinced from the start that it was a powerplay and conspiracy against Carlos Ghosn. Thank you for covering the topic.
Yea they are my guy who lived there pointed out their age different rules for gajians. Apparently the CEO was embezzling money but so we’re all the board members but he was a outsider so he had to go… Combine that with the messed up legal system and being a outsider he was screwed
Dude i was sure of it from the moment i saw in the news, even if my country is run by guys like him (which always makes me doubt about them), knowing the japanese i was sure of it.
okay... and when a white person goes to Chad or Yemen nobody seems to care about the hostility. Leave the Japanese alone, they are literally hostile to foreigners because if they aren't Japan won't exist.
Nigerians are much more easier to work with and many Lebanese do business there, especially across much of west and southern Sub Sahara Africa. This is a strawman argument. Its a fact Japan is hostile to foreign businessmen and people who are not of the country who work there. And I made no mentions of those places you speak also because its not relevant to the conversation above!
The most painful part of the story is hearing that the Americans handed over the green beret and his son to be thrown in a medieval Japanese prison for pretty much freeing a hostage.
It’s almost public knowledge that they treat their soldiers and veterans like trash. They try to silence whistleblowers, support unregulated capitalism and constantly do insider trading, it’s sad that they’re as corrupt as their counterparts
I'm 100% Japanese and I can confirm that Japanese are very racially exclusive especially in the business sector. Not only that but they are exclusive against any coworkers that are disagreeable or 'doesn't fit the group'. Both my parents hated this culture and ran away, my mother being a very extroverted outgoing character and my father for being a misfit introvert. No matter the case, Japanese culture is strictly on the norm of "出た杭は打たれる" which is borderline illegal in the United States, for instance just imagine being outcast in a work environment because you're from Nigeria and don't speak English too well. I'm sure this happens, but with proof you can bring it to court. This is just culture but it's borderline questioning human ethics as well. Post-war Japanese has started to be more receptive of outside culture, but even then this sociological ideal has not, especially in the older generations. The anime and gaming industry has an edge towards outside culture because even that was outcasted by the society for a long time. Manga is deviant! and people who delve into them are Otakus! Only in the past generation has this pressure been relieved via further popularity in anime. But in my parents generation people they would strictly stop them from watching any animes, though even then some staple comedic animes were starting to track mainstream attention like Starblazers.
idk you just hate japan. like how am i supposed to talk to somebody who doesnt know english? the reason as to why you can sue anybody over anything in the us is bc in the us everybody wants to think that they are a victim so they could feel better about themselves .
He was just a scapegoat, Japanese people are extremely pretentious. They didn't want to do the job of firing all those Japanese people so they hired a dumb Gaijin tool to do the bidding for them, that way no Japanese person gets the blame, it's extremely clever, problem is that he embezzled a lot of money away from them at the same time business is a dirty game.
@@KallusGarnet Yea your correct but all of them including the Japanese were embezzling Money. I think like you said they just wanted him to take the fall because he is a outsider.
@@thanors2 I'm a Gaijin born and raised in Japan I know how they think, every Japanese board member embezzled money out of the company, the problem they have is that a Gaijin isn't allowed to do this and get away with it. One rule for Japanese another rule for Gaijin, remember your place, you will never be one of us type of attitude. And he was foolishness enough to do this to a Zaibatsu company, who have ties to Yakuza, very risky move.
@@KallusGarnet I completely understand and yea I know for gajin we can’t do what they do. That was my point should of out in my post but I agree he was stupid for thinking he could play their game when they make the rules
Kallus Garnet Hey, just say those Japanese people or most rich Japanese people or something like that, you can’t go out here saying “Japanese people are (all) pretentious”
I remember seeing his face all-over the news in Japan years ago. They didn't really tell much of what he's accused of other than being a former ceo of NIssan. Great to finally have clarification on what really happened.
Towards the end of the video it made more sense. Large companies in Japan and South Korea work closely with the government. Like government on their payroll closely. Ever heard of the Samsung family? Might be a good video for Jake to do one on them!
Yeah thats called the Asia model. Government helps big corporations succeed in order to grow the economy. How do you think Honda, Sony etc went from garage workshops after ww2 to megafactories in 10 years? Because govmnt gave them zero interest billion dollar loans etc etc.
They still locked up Jay Y Lee which is the samsung boss right now... that tells me enough. The country cannot be TOO corrupt if they put their most powerful in prison.. including their first female president. Here in the US the top 1% can get away with ANYTHING.. probably the same in Japan as well. Stock manipulation is so real.
Ghosn was born in the same small city I got raised; since that place is an absolute hellhole, I wish he could had fixed it just like he made with other companies; maybe brazilian politics were too messy for him to deal with. Anyway, it still surprises me that some from the same shit place I came from managed to become such a big corp CEO (and now a fugitive).
@@Autarke It's kinda plutocratic/kleptocratic like Marcos's Phillipines: Little free market, and only allowed for those with close ties with the gov't.
Very interesting to watch this. I remember hearing the news of his escape, but never know the details of why he was escaping in the first place. Watching the video from the beginning I was waiting for the part where you tell us he bribed someone or took unethical/illegal business shortcuts. I was surprised he went over all that for such a common rich people practice and worst others in the company did so too.
I used to work for an American semiconductor test company, and a project I lead won a major contract in Japan. We would not have beaten domestic competition if our product hadn't been better by a large margin. When I visited, the Japanese were very welcoming, but I got the impression they wouldn't have been if I had tried to stay long-term.
@@SydneyCarton2085 You sound like one of those guys who would unironically watch and laugh at Ben Shapiro’s videos. Do they not have the right to immigrate to any country solely because they aren’t some specific race?
Solitary confinement is torture in itself. Add to that it being in a windowless box! I spent a night in a police holding cell alone and it was a horrible experience. Can't imagine being in solitary for 108 days with no hope of getting a fair trial to prove one's innocence
@@hydrolifetech7911 That is true, but I guess I was trying to say it's not exactly as bad as the Soviet prisons, but it's scarily close. Also, basically being imprisoned for nothing. I'm reading Gulag Archepelego at the moment, so that as what I noticed.
Good video. I‘m glad that people learned about Japan‘s horrible „justice“ system and treatment of immigrants. I wish there were more videos and news articles about people who are even worse off than him, like Vietnamese „trainees“ and all the refugees etc. who spent years detained at immigration facilities, which are worse than prisons, and even get killed by immigration officers regulary. More people need to learn about this and call Japan out on it.
Japan is Ass-a-hole like that for sure. Its coming to a head, they've backed themselves into the no breeding corner. This means that they cannot sustain this closed borders nonsense for long, which is sad, its why Japan is still very much as Japanese as ever.
Imagine a non-Japanese CEO of Sony of Indian descent making facilities in India with joint-ventures with Samsung and that those joint-ventures with Samsung factories in India become solely Sony factories using Samsung methods. That will put Japanese trainees to go trained in Bombay to make TVs and other sorts of equipment that is done by the Samsung method with facilities that started as joint ventures with Samsung.
I've got a Japanese friend and when I told her about this video she said she wasn't surprised about both the way he was treated in the work environment and by the judicial system. Apparently it's very common for people who are too different from the majority to be completely socially excluded and even despised for being different (having an uncommon interest, different religious beliefs or culture and yeah even race or ethnicity unfortunately). With the judicial system she told me something insane which is that Japan has a 99% conviction rate, I didn't believe her and I even had to search it up just to see and sure enough she wasn't lying, apparently it's a very guilty until proven innocent system and there tends to be a lot of tunnel vision when it comes to gathering evidence and prosecuting someone.
@@cardinalrule6810 apparently not, they don't exactly have the best view of White people, specifically Americans. They don't look down on them but they find some of their habits and mannerisms strange and annoying specifically the way they act in public and their hygiene habits like wearing outdoor shoes in the house - to be fair we do that here in South Africa too). Japanese people are also extremely proud of their country and traditions, it's just not as outspoken as Americans apparently and they say they wouldn't change their nationality or ethnicity for any other.
@@zamanimvukela4573 if Japanese people have so much pride, I still don’t understand why they make all of their manga and anime characters look like white people
nice touch Cleb "claim to be...". Actually this doesn't change my view of nissan at all. Nissan is not just this episode, as it is the sum of work of every employee evrr working for them
I remember reading something about Japanese conviction rates being high/ crime rate being so low is essentially because the police departments do not pursue criminal charges unless they're sure they can get a conviction. Essentially they will cherry pick the incidents they respond to, and cherry pick even further the ones that they will "legally" pursue. If they'll "take the case" it's either because they do know they can get a confession, or because they know they can strong arm you into getting one.
I am Lebanese, I was in Japan for few months working on a project. I really loved Japan and its people, very impressive. At the same time, I have great respect to what Carlos Ghosn achieved in business. I can't tell if he is guilty or innocent but the whole story looks like a conspiracy. Why would a company arrest its own savior and keep him in prison without access to a lawyer?
Japan's backwards notions regarding "saving face." They didn't like that a gaijin exposed their failure, so they decided to attack the gaijin. It's the same stupid ignorance that caused them to attack Pearl Harbor and to genocide their neighbors during WWII; the same ignorance that got two bombs dropped on them. People like to think Japan is all smiles and weeb-friendly J-pop, when really it's Yakuza Triads and cuthroat corporate dominance.
You should also read what happened to zaibatsu. Japan deserves to become hell-hole like Venezuela. Their government has history of persecuting people who fix their economies. Japan is pretty much text book of fascism, and I'm not saying this as left winger but as right winger.
Thank you for this video. I had not heard about this case and it saddens me as it shows that the grass is only greener in one's mind. I had heard that Japan's legal system had problems but I was sorely disappointed that there could be such a miscarriage of justice. If the man was guilty of a crime, surely they had enough evidence to convict him...but if they have to keep trumping up additional charges, it reeks of a dystopian legal system. Kafka would be proud.
"Idealic paradise" As an anime fan who's been watching anime since 13, I never did understand the weeb dream of living in Japan. If you ever watch shows that aren't battle shounens or romcoms you'll notice a constant critic of Japan. It's mainly exaggeration but anime and manga love to point out how awful Japan is. Power abuse, forced overtime, unpaid overtime(because it's for the company), always respect the order of things no matter what, don't draw attention to yourself, bullying, "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down." Also while Japan is still probably one of the safest countries in the world, the police only investigate when they can get a prosecution so murders sometimes get filed as suicides to save time.
@@josefonseca9178 There are many developed countries that are not awful like Japan, try Liechtenstein, Estonia, Switzerland, Norway, Monaco, New Zealand, Australia etc.
@@marcusanark2541 Yeah, but there are worst countries too. I did my bachelors in Japan for 5 years, and it was the best time of my life. No country is perfect, just different.
Foreigners are really looked down upon in Japan. Look up how hard it is to move there. Most landlords won’t rent to foreigners, and if they do you have to speak Japanese better than the Japanese themselves do. They do a good job making their culture and country seem like this mysterious, cute friendly place, but there’s a lot of stuff behind the scenes that’s horrible. Maybe Ghosn was being shady and was illegally increasing his salary, but it was Nissan’s disdain for having a foreigner run their company that led to the arrest.
Japan is for the Japanese, keep that in mind and you'll get along here just fine. That's the reason it's still nice. Just came from L.a. where tents fill the streets. Every place has its downside.
@@jileelmcdaniels5549 ask yourself if that would sound xenophobic should you have said that about a European Country or The US. How is it any different than back in 2016 when during the presidential election a lot of people openly came out and shouted about how the US needed to close off its southern border? Japan puts on a much nicer facade than the US does, but as a whole the people are far more xenophobic than any western country. They just get a pass because they have a big stage on the global market. Is Japan’s absurd 99% conviction rate also a part of keeping Japan nice?
@@andyn46 America and Europe should close its borders. It's people are suffering due to uncontrolled immigration. The current situation is unsustainable.
"Foreigners are really looked down upon in Japan. Look" If this is the case, why do Japanese people make many of their anime and manga characters look white (even if they're supposed to be Japanese)?
@@cardinalrule6810if you look at paintings and art they created hundreds or years before their contact with Europeans they still portrayed light skinned people. It’s considered attractive to have lighter skin
People always talk about the unique organizational structure of yakuza syndicates, but what they don't know is that yakuza operate according to many Japanese business and government practices. It's as ruthless as it is bureaucratic and nationalistic.
It's crazy once you understand this, like it's genius but extremely depressing at the same time like Japan is a country stuck in an eternity of a Mexican stand off.
Although I really like anime and Japanese food, I never would've wish of living in Japan after learning about the suicide rate and the toxic working environment where making use of your paid leave is deemed disrespectful/unethical.
@@helenamasiala3694 it's not the same level, America is bad with leave unlike most of the west, but the pressure to work in Japan is on another ballpark, Sleep in employees is commonplace and the massive society pressure to not take leave is incredibly over barring, the suicide rate is stupidly high and the amount of people who just break down and become shut ins is also very common.
I was actually an intern in Nissan (Nissan Design North American) when this all started to unravel. I remember all sorts of programs being canceled and my internship extension that i wanted so bad getting canceled as well.
The Ghosn case clearly shows that Japan is not a "full democracy" as the Economist says, but a make-believe democracy set up immediately after the 2WW defeat to compete with the West on a more friendly basis. The old Zaibatsu elites never gave up their power. See chapter "Japan: A superficially democratic state" by Howe and Oh (2008).
God to read this comments from westeners is SO stupid. The USA and the EU are not a real democracy either and even reduced more the last 20 years to a point complety abbolsihed in 2020 but mjaoirty simply does not realise it because never properly educated how the legal system, voting and finance really works in reality.
@@maggiejetson7904 Lock at the US and especially the northern state these days. emergency law tyranny taking away basic human rights and forcing not porper longterm tested medical treatment desastrous in animal testing only with emergncy license to the public and discriminate exrtemly the ones who do not want that. But because it is not the typical idoelogical categories we are used to and because it is for "our health and to safe lives" (what it always is regardless wich ieology) majority accepts it and does not see the danger. Australia already officaly builds quqrantine camps, washington seem to do as well and peole worry rightfully the FEMA buildings not being used to help rufgees and homeless-
Hasn't stopped determined morons before lol😂 just look at Buck Angel He's an old school trans (been transitioned for over a decade) but lots of Trans folks hate on him cause he says the "wrong" thing
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 nope, them morons even throw shade at Gloria Alvarez She's a Guatemalan whose family escaped communism and despite that, they do nothing but hurl canceling efforts one after another towards her because she says the "wrong" thing latin americans aren't supposed to say
Jake idk if you took classes to lean videography or editing or youre self taught or what but bro you make some of the most fire videos on all of youtube.. You somehow have figured out the perfect formula to make your content entertaining, educational, informative, and exponentially diverse. Usually people stick to a particular niche or genre but you cover practically everything. Keep it up bro, I love your stuff. You have a gift.
Promotions based on seniority only, lifelong job positions (even if you heavily underperform), CEO's salaries much lower than in the US... plus intense resentment and conspiracy planning, even towards the person who literally saved your company from disappearing. It really doesn't look like Japan is a great place to go for a career boost like I hoped.
Hey guys , Lebanese expatriate here , the feeling is mixed about him here. Some people think he was definitely mistreated and would be great if he get to power here in Lebanon . Others think that he probably was corrupt and considering the fact that he has become friends with a corrupt ruling elite , that he would deepen Lebanon’s financial problems
Personally, I think it's a little bit of both. He was probably the type that pushes for results even if he needs to do some disgusting deal while at the same time Japan probably leave him be to some extent when he still give them profits but the deal ends after they started losing money.
I cant even explain how am i fascinated by your content, always watching every documentary, you are phenomenal man, keep up the extremly awesome work !
They had the one man able to rescue anyone from financial ruin and bring them back to success. It would be a major blunder to let him go, instead they opt to make a mortal enemy of him and attempt to ruin his life. Now they're facing financial ruin again and desperately need his help, I have to wonder if they feel it was worth it. Is losing that much money really worth hurting someone you dislike. Sure he might cut jobs, but not having a company exist tends to do that too. Baffling. The most sad part to me is that Ghosn isn't able to work for other companies anymore. People like that desperately need the challenge and drive, companies need his touch after Covid more than ever. But he is forced to remain away from it all. This isn't morally right for Ghosn, and it isn't in the public interest either. Equally odd that western nations haven't acted to stop this so they can reap the economic benefits of Ghosn's work.
Most plebeians would see him as a criminal without reading into the details, and that might end up costing the company. Maybe he’s consulting companies from afar, who knows? He has power, and some companies can really pay their way into secrecy.
@@AlterRektMLG Thats a fair point, though people like that really need the 70 hour work weeks too. There's only so much he can really do with maybe 5 hours of consultation and none of the financial details or inner secrets he'd normally have. He really needs to be on the board of directors at the least, but thats an obviously very public move people can't do. Still, hopefully the fact that he is an incredibly famous example of extreme corruption in the Japanese system means that enough people know he isn't guilty. Especially given how many people did the exact same thing for the same company yet nothing happened.
@@olivialambert4124 Well yeah, it wouldn’t be bad to see him revitalize a couple of companies before he takes his final break from work. But he probably already has enough, and may not be looking for more.
@@akihikosakurai4013 but that's not how it should work. Neither it is how he was jailed. It was also a little stupid given that, because they jailed Carlos Ghosn, now everybody knows that the other executives are corrupt. And if everybody was doing financial misconduct, then he wasn't jailed because of it. He was jailed because he was too succesful for being foreign and wanted to merge with Renault. So in the eyes of the executives, it is more important to kick out the gaijin guy that's doing the same as them, than to protect business image. That's a little fucked up and kind of racist.
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why would he reveal his secrets? that would put him in danger, he's probably got it set up to reveal them when he dies though so that others can replicate him by improving on it
What he did isn't illegal in most of the countries, these are things the companies should solve internally between then because it isn't fraud but rather different internal decisions about where their money should go.
I'm not sure about the (original) charges, they could be right, but the way he was treated / his case was handled was just plain wrong. BUT as Jake stated Japan seems to be very hierarchical and patriarchal another case that show just how much is Olympus (Bloomberg did a video on how they hid huge losses while officially showing nice profits. A newly appointed CEO went against the old founder (who made and hid the losses but now for quite some time had no official function in the company) by asking too many questions and was immediately removed from the company, threatened and persecuted.)
Damn. I was living in Japan back then and he was depicted as a criminal and a coward around the time he left. I never heard the real reasons for his arrest, the media were so vague about it (or my japanese was insufficient). Thanks for summing it up.
I've been in Japan for 15 years now. You really start to see the dark side quite quickly. Jake didn't even scratch the surface of the Ghosn scandal though, there was so much more happening...
@@JarodM that would and does take many pages. The Asia Times Ghosn articles by Roger Schreffler are a very good start (make sure to read in order! Things get complex quickly)
My former step dad is Vietnamese/Chinese. Can confirm they are very uninclusive of other cultures and races, we were put down consistently by his 9 siblings, but his father a Vietnamese veteran of the war fought them for us, of which were are very grateful for defending us from his children's ostracication.
One thing for sure Carlos made Japan as a country, government, judicial system and business culture look stupid I mean really stupid I bet they regret arresting him in the first place.
Was this guy good at cost cutting? Yes. Did this cost cutting result in the decrease in vehicle reliability? Yes. Did he deserve to be treated the way he was? Absolutely not. However, the measures he was implementing would prove to be a successful short term strategy, but in the long term… Not so much. I think fellow car enthusiasts might agree with me here that Nissan’s reputation for building reliable vehicles was negatively affected by the cost cutting measures of Carlos Ghosn. There is a reason why Honda and Toyota vehicles retain their value way better than Nissan cars nowadays. There is a reason why older Nissans have depreciated way less than newer Nissans and I do believe this man can partially be blamed for it.
he merge some of the manufacturing so nissan cars and renault cars have the same components, some cars even are the same car with diferent bodywork, now the thing is that nissan cars where going to shit before Ghosn came the company, you can see that in the time he wasn't a CEO no more, the nissan quality has not increased, he just cut a lot of bullcrap parts from the company and lower or bring them down to the quality of renault, he also revive the gtr and the nissan z, and introduced the leaf, nissan could have been the company tesla is today
He had to do it to prolong the life of Nissan, unfortunately it involved collaboration with Renault using alot of shared parts, a company not known for making quality cars.
Doesn't surprise me at all, I remember when Pride was still a big player in the MMA scene, they had yakuza thugs showing up at a fighter's manager's hotel room and threatening to shoot them if they didn't sign their fighter's contract over to them.
@@rb9951 Having a clear view on yourself and your actions is very important on the fighting stage of business. Too much self-love can fog over your view.
@@shl9322 Not everyone has a gut instinct for cut throat business. Which is why you cannot trust yourself in that world unless you are willing to go beyond your own moral instincts if you have them. There is a reason sociopaths run a lot of things from countries to business. I have a sociopath directly in charge of my department, they can be charming but they are manipulative and see nothing wrong with what they do or how they hurt people.
"Did you know Japan can be so corrupt?" Um, yes. Anime basically teaches that constantly. The fact that "Idols" exist at all is proof of their corruption. The rampant bullying that often borders into actual abuse and assault is a pretty good indicator as well. Much of the social structure is so screwed up that "being corrupt" is basically a given. It's more surprising to find someone with any sense of honor, fair play, or dignity in that culture. Which is, you know, probably why so many "check out" of living there and become hikkikomori.
@@kefadaedits5723 Basically, it's a more extreme version of a "NEET". These are people who have typically checked out of society 100% and live almost entirely in their own rooms. They do not visit with their family if they can avoid it, they do not go outside, they do not get jobs, they do not go to stores if they can help it... Basically, they engross themselves in entertainment because living in reality hurts them too much to interact with it. It's a massive problem in Japan where a lot of youths are "checking out" of society and their families are taking care of them. From my understanding of the way their society runs as well as their values, it is really the only "viable" option for most people who aren't "the social norm". That is, these people tend to be outcasted to some degree or are unable to meet the exceptionally high standards their society places upon them... and so effectively give up. Japanese society is basically a constant game of "Keeping up with the Joneses". You compete with your peers in school. In social standing, in sports activities, in academics, and even in fun outside hobbies like video games. Their entire society is endless competition in which if you're not the best, then you should bow before your betters and spend your time assisting them and praising them. Japanese society, as a result, has very little recourse for anyone who has been "wronged". Someone spreads nasty and untrue rumors about you? It's your fault. Someone bullies you and destroys your property? It's not only your fault... but you'll be looked down upon for reporting it to authorities. You have a mental health issue? Your fault, and people will think worse of you for seeking help. Japanese society tends to be a very lonely existence in which everyone is either resigned to depression or high strung from paranoia and fear. This is a society that takes you out to drink in order to get you to say unfiltered things about people or your business so that they can use it against you to destroy you. This is a society that DOES NOT embrace innovation and often destroys people who DO innovate. It isn't difficult to see why so many become hikkiomori. The Japanese are too rigid and too caught up in their pettiness to do anything more than create a society of mal-adjusted mentally ill people.
I never comment, like never...OK, I was just willing to say what I felt the day and the week of his arrest. I was shocked. Not because of his potential crimes. But how in less than one hour, a man who came in Japan as I did, after 20 years of hard work was just erased. Put to shame. How dirt was put to his name so easily, and please MARK MY WORDS, not a single Japanese individual defended him and all accepted the official version without any hesitation. I don't know Carlos Ghosn, but this was hard. Not a single person defended him. Also the documentary does not speak about the amount of money spent by Nissan to destroy his reputation, paid articles and so on. The result you know it. Since Leaf, not a single model is having good market results. Renault was kind of obliged to follow Nissan plan. And now what??? Is Nissan better of?? Is Nissan back to winning market shares. As I said I was so morally chocked by the way, Japanese media, everyone was willing to destroy his image. I completely lost any fate in a potentiality of Japan to change from the inside.
This was a fascinating documentary. I remember hearing about the criminal justice system in Japan. Yeah. In Japan, you have to prove your innocence. Japanese Jails are very austere. You don't get fed enough, and your family have to bring meals to the inmate, so that they can eat more. I've never personally been in a Japanese jail or got in trouble with the law over there, but when I was in the Marines, I spent six months in Okinawa, and as part of orientation, this was explained to us Marines. The thing with the Japanese criminal justice system is that sentences are much more austere against foreigners. So, I can see how they were acting so corruptly and so unfairly towards Carlos.
Every country has it's own problems and corruption; laws and regulations; culture and public attitude. To say Japan is worse than the United States can be overblown... but It is true that painting Japan as such a peaceful and accepting country overmines it's immense amount of problems. The Judicial System in Japan was one of the most unknown subjects about Japans faults and downsides, until recent years. It's good to see that the Judicial System is getting tons of attention for it's incapability to get a true and just trial, but little is being done to actually change this. It upsets me seeing a once prideful and successful country (during Japan's economic bubble) that is now being slowly and unmercifully choked by it's own culture norms, shrinking population, rising debt, and corruption. I will always love Japan for it's rich history and culture but It is impossible to truly say that it is currently: a wonderful place, with a bustling economy and an accepting culture and government that loves to apply positive change. It's death grip to uphold it's old cultural norms and refuse to change for the bettering of it's nation is truly painful to witness.
Work culture and society pressures in Japan I would say is significantly more unhealthy, but on the other hand the people are more friendly it's much more cleaner and everything tends to work.
I think he was corrupt, but that wasn't the reason Nissan wanted him gone, since the Japanese ceo did the same thing. Japan is in a weird position, where it doesn't want to risk angering America, but it needs to do a lot of xenophobic things in its natural interests, so they does all these clandestine operations so that they can have their ethno-nationalist mercantilism while still maintaining good PR with Americans.
Do you know they blame Russia for dropping the nuclear bomb 💣. The foreign minister Sergio Lavrov says it in an interview. He said no matter how many times they try to correct it it's a case of smile and wave with the Japanese 😂
Can you do a video on Singapore? My country has very flawed and corrupted government and our law system is really bad. Its always guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent and we don't have human rights when it comes to law. Please see this Jake Tran, I love your videos and I hope someone can share something about how terrible our country is and the crimes we have committed as a country against other countries around the world.
I remember reading that the Japanese justice system, pretty much assumes guilty until proven otherwise, but holy didn't expect this level of curription.
@@maggiejetson7904 Toyota has been very late to the EV game, despite being early with hybrids and despite having a 10% stake in Tesla at one point. This can end up being very, very costly to Toyota.
@@peterfireflylund LOL they just don't want to enter the market yet, EV power electronics are similar to hybrid and the only thing they are missing out is to buy batteries from Panasonic, LG, and CATL. They can do that now but they usually enter the market to be reliable, not first.
Wait till you hear that minimum wage is actually DOWN but ceo wage is up 977%. I can’t believe the laissave faire doctrine of literally doing nothing is still so popular, and if you notice the people who promote that are usually interested in business. So basically they just want nothing to get into the way of them making more money. I’m sorry but I just don’t trust people to act remotely fairly in business on free will, and Im sure laissev faire people know it wouldn’t be more fair but think that if you can achieve something by any means you deserve it I guess?
The Yakuza wanted him in jail or dead as he was messing with their money by proposing a sales to Renault which would open-up the books. He made the smart move
Japan is known to violate international treaties and conventions that they signed and therefore agreed to. Just look at child kidnapping stories from that country, the foreign spouse usually has no recourse whatsoever despite Japan ratifying the UN convention on the right of the child which clearly states that the child has the right to see both parents. They violate this on a normal basis and they probably violated some other business convention to set up Carlos Ghosn, he hasn't broken any law, he just pissed off the wrong person with the right connections.
Jake, would you consider doing a documentary about what happened at Olympus, the camera maker? If I remember correctly, almost the same thing happened at Olympus as what happened at Nissan. So it would be fun to see your take on what happened.
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Can you do a video on Singapore? My country has very flawed and corrupted government and our law system is really bad. Its always guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent and we don't have human rights when it comes to law. Please see this Jake Tran, I love your videos and I hope someone can share something about how terrible our country is and the crimes we have committed as a country against other countries around the world.
You should do a video on Japan's zaibatsu.
Jake you should check out Richard Grove on yt. He promoted you in one of his videos. Top tier researcher
A "How to Make Jake Tran Videos" video would be cool. The research process, mostly.
I think they were just jealous of his killer samurai eyebrows
Now that I think about it...
Yeah those eyebrows would make everyone jealous
I saw the same joke on a different video on the topic, this is crazy
In face reading which the Asians do He's eyes eyebrows symbolise great at leadership so it explains
They just didn't want to pay him more money
Career advancement based on seniority only breeds mediocrity.
It's a kakistocracy as well
Hereditary and seniority hierarchies and successions breed mediocrity, outgroup prejudice and backwards traditionalism.
Either stability at all cost or progress
They value consistently and security even more
Nah i prefer career advancedment based on the most productive employees. Only bad thing is some undeserving fucks can get it by fucking the boss, or being friends with them.
The way he had escaped proves how skillful he is during crisis of company or his own life
he is like character out of movie, big brain move in a few days
Inspirational indeed. Quoting him "You don't think about the past, or the future. You only think of the present moment." Carlos Ghosn when he was been wheeled in the box escaping from Japan for his freedom.
By exporting their culture through anime,manga, video games, etc, the Japanese have managed to promote themselves in a positive manner. Japan as a country is something else though, especially their judiciary. Great video Jake
Just like how Korea did it.
They learnt it from the US
Well, if you read any manga which is not a shonen or a harem, you will quickly realise that. Kaguya same does an excellent job of this.
@Byush m It's just normal. Nothing is worse as a crime than being competent man. Police don't care about serial killers, rapists and stalkers. They only care about people who politicians envy.
@@mvalthegamer2450 The sheer amount of corporate corruption shoved into that RomCom manga is insane. And that why I love it.
I have no clue how you manage to keep up this pace for releasing videos, improving the quality each time. Jake, you're both a legend and a madman.
That's that asian efficiency for you :P
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@Baby no
Result: This high profile case has sabotaged Japan's ability to attract senior executive talent and to transform the culture of their business operational environment. In the 90s I was offered a mid level management position in Japan which would have required me to relocate there. I turned down this lucrative offer as I understood enough about Japanese culture to know that I would be treated as a 2nd class citizen and would have zero chance of promotion.
My desires and skill level is nowhere near yours but growing up I actually wanted to live in Japan because I was fascinated with their culture as an adult I've learned enough about their culture to know that I made a wise choice not trying to move there I kind of regret learning the language I should have just learned Spanish instead. But high school needed know any better and I had it in my heart to live there but I found out unless you were born there you can never become a citizen of Japan and I've learned enough from the US to know you do not want to be a second class citizen in any country
If you cannot become a citizen of a country unless you are there for business you probably don't want to try to live there. I have whole heartedly decided I do not want to live in any country where I cannot become a citizen while also keeping my US citizenship (wanted to move to Germany before too But I learned even though Germany allows dual citizenship it does not allow it with the US so if I was to become a German citizen I would have to renounce my American citizenship, Even though I'm not too keen on being an American because I'm not a nationalist, I still think it would be a very unwise thing for me to let go of it)
The don't really want transformation. So it is really like preparing your own funeral if you go there wanting to 'transform' things. I do still want to live in Japan, especially the rural areas, but I don't ever want to work there! As an outsider and a woman it would be a double whammy and I can't really keep my tongue in my mouth if I feel a thing is unfair
I see now why black people move there and love it so much. They use to being treated as a second class citizen anyway but blacks people have not problem moving into their culture completely. They want you to have their culture and not the other way around. At least they don’t have to worry about being killing or hang over there. My mom friend son with over there to study but they offered him a job at the college. Be honest with you I knew he will never come back the place never with though the slavery thing as their racist isn’t as bad as European countries. White people always found it harder there because they not use to with black people being talking about all the time (how white treat them) but they don’t understand they do it thousand times worst than the Japanese to black and the black are born on USA etc soil. He loves it and every black person that goes there loves it some don’t make it due to how expensive Japan can be to live there they even have your own tax you have to pay not being Japanese and if you want to keep your USA citizenship you have to pay USA tax on top of regular taxes.
@@avirei98 It‘s untrue that you can‘t become a citizien of Japan if you‘re not born there. Being born there has actually nothing to do with it, you either have to have at least 1 Japanese parent, or you have to naturalize by living in Japan for 5 years.
Naturalazing in Japan is actually easier than in most European countries like Germany or the UK. You really only have to live there for 5 years and not be a convicted criminal, plus you have to write a small essay on why you want Japanese citizenship, which sounds hard, but it’s not. I know people who only had N3 Japanese abilities (intermidiate level) and managed to do it. In Germany or the UK you actually have to pass written exams about the country‘s politics and history in order to qualify, plus you have to live there for longer than 5 years (it‘s 8 for Germany and I think 10 for UK, but I‘m not 100% sure). And in the UK, once you have permanent residency you can‘t become a citizen, while in Japan you can. It‘s true that Japan doesn‘t allow dual nationality, but most countries don‘t, including the UK and Germany only allows it if you‘re a citizen of another EU country.
I agree with everything else you stated. As a Japanologist I would advice every foreigner who doesn‘t have a deeper understanding of the Japanese language and culture against moving to Japan. It‘s a rude awakening for most people. But I‘ve somehow seen this claim „you can‘t become a Japanese citizen“ on UA-cam and other websites quite some time and I don‘t understand where people get this information from, it‘s just not true. Unfortunately I can‘t post links because UA-cam automatically removes them now, but just go and look up Japanese nationality law online. It‘s clearly defined. I don‘t understand why so many people get it wrong.
I will take your words of wisdom to heart
Even if the man is guilty of everything the Japanese accuse him of, they treated him horribly as a suspect and I wouldn't be confident he'd receive a fair trial in the country under those circumstances.
Just like Assange
@young98 what are you? A pussy? You should fuck with the government because it shouldn't be able to fuck you up.
Fun fact, Japan’s cops are just jerks according to rumours.
They treat every arrest in Japan like that, it’s why they have a 99% conviction rate. There is no legal right to counsel until court and the holding limit without charges is like a year. Not to mention the political class made up of centuries old dynasties that control most high powered government positions. It’s the American’s fault for joining hands with the imperial government/barely reforming legal systems in the post ww2 occupation because they thought the communists would take over if the fascists were outed.
@@hamoodhabibi1579 Japanese cops are highly racist and would target the low hanging fruit first. Justice is not on their minds.
I would have NEVER thought I would have felt bad for a CEO until now
yeah, me neither
Yeah, dude was just genuinely talented as a corporate leader.
This video is propaganda. Nissan and Renault make terrible cars. Moreover you need to get the opinion of operational workers and how they are treated to know the real story. This story just highlights how messed up the system is and what scoundrels executives are. This guy Carlos is the lowest of the low together with his accomplices and the corrupt Japanese system.
@@louvendran7273 But did Gohsn do anything illegal though? It doesn't look like it. I live in Japan and I know how ridiculous it can get here and how large corporations have pull in the government. Working for one of the largest corporations in Japan, this hits very close to home for me. While I disagree with how Carlos treated long-time employees as expendables, none of what he did was necessarily out of the bounds of law it would seem. All those layoffs would include hefty severance packages by law here. It is not easy to fire an employee in Japan. And there is a culture here where people get employed throughout their lives--basically devoting their lives to the company. Carlos disregarded this and I can see why it made him a lot of enemies. It would seem that Carlos only looked at the numbers and treated the expense of lay-offs and corporate restructuring as investments. As talented of a businessman he is, he failed to look at the stark cultural differences between the western world and the more conservative Japanese culture.
That said, I condemn what Japan and Nissan did to Gohsn. I really feel sorry for him. He went to Japan, did his job, and satisfied Nissan board members and investors. They got him to make money, and he did. If anything, the board members are more at fault. They knew what Gohsn's style was before acquiring him. Only during the recession, when he wasn't able to meet his goals did they start making moves to get rid of him. Those charges against him look trumped up. Like I said, it's hard to fire someone in Japan. It's either you let him go with a golden parachute or they manufacture false charges against him. That this whole farce backfired on them is the only consolation for me.
@@DeanGl Well said, in my opinion it's a sum of evils pitted against each other. I have never been to Japan or know much about Carlos but after reading and watching a few reports, I feel that many are trying to bash the Japanese which I feel is not innocent nor is the defendant with his methods.
They were just embarrassed that a foreigner came in and saved a Traditionally Japanese company so shame and jealousy crept in and they railroaded him plain and simple. I wouldn't be confident he'd receive a fair trial in the country under those circumstances.
Exactly
Carlos is a legend they teach his techniques in universities and the Japanese even made a cartoon about him. But their hatred for the foreigner made them loose a legend
Japanese do not hate foreigners if they tribute to the country or have special skills. This was about some elite people pissed about him.
@@kidaria1333 Japanese are very obedient people. They follow the elite, so yes Japan hates foreigners
Legend or not, you don’t break traditions or culture. The reason America is so fkd up is cause we have no traditions or loyalty to anything but ourselves.
@@jokerpilled2535 But that's on Nissan, not the CEO.
You don't bring a new CEO just to do exactly what others did. That's insanity.
Ultimately, the board gave him the go sign for all of that.
@@annekedebruyn7797 that’s true, they should’ve fired him as soon as they heard his plans to replace them. Let the company sink if they want.
Japan judicial system is not very ideal. It is pretty much, "guilty until proven innocent". Like example, in USA, once arrested, you have 48-72 hours (it is usually 48 hours, the 72 hours is there because of federal holidays and weekend issues) to make an initial case, and a bail hearing to set bail or no bail and held in jail if the personnel is deemed to dangerous to be released even if not convicted. (This is a bail hearing)
In Japan though, this rule is VERY different, even without trial or conviction, Japan is allowed to have 21 DAYS before the bail hearing. AND you are allowed to add "new charges" to reset bail. (This is illegal in USA, you CANNOT reset bail time before hearing under any circumstances) Because of this, Japan police, they initially charge you with 1 crime, then it is 21 days, and JUST before your time is up and for bail trial, they "add another crime" for now you are charged with 2 accounts. So now, you are reset for another 21 days fresh. This strat can be done infinitely until you run out of additional crime to add. The japan police do this so they can get a "conviction statement of guilt" from the person with their signed consent with no lawyer involvement. Is this highly illegal? In other 1st world nations, YES. However, in Japan, it is not. (For example, the neighbor country South Korea, it is 14 days of lock time before initial bail hearing, and also, it cannot be reset under any reason.) So for example, say they arrest you and the police have 10 charges initially, but they will officially charge you with 1 crime, then before 21 days, they'll reset the bail time with a 2nd charge, and they'll keep doing this until they use up their 10 charges. Also during this time, they'll dig up dirt to see if they can find additional charges they can add later to keep extending bail.
There is a reason why in Japan, conviction rate for arrested individuals is 99.99% for the prosecutors in trial. (Which is an INSANELY high conviction rate for a 1st world country) Alot of the times, if you get arrested in Japan, it is just easier to "admit your guilt" in hopes for a lighter sentence.
Damn, that's fucked up. Not too different from living in Saudi Arabia in the sense that you have no due process.
You're correct in describing the medieval Japanese judicial system, but please don't insist on the bail. You're obviously American, so please learn this:
1. In many if not most of the European countries, the system of bailing people out of jail is rarely used, even if legal. The prevalent principle is this: if the defendant doesn't risk a too heavy prison penalty AND if the risk for him to intimidate or harm the witnesses or to tamper with the evidence is low AND if the risk for him to flee is low AND if he's not considered a risk for the society, THEN he's just released for free. OTOH, it's illogical to release, even on a hefty bail, someone accused of being a mass murderer, because they could kill again (and flee, because he risks a life sentence).
2. In Japan, a foreigner is ALMOST NEVER released on bail. They don't trust foreigners. At all.
So the "reset time" is not about the "bail time" but about the "preventive detention" (the continental European term). Replace "keep extending bail" to "keep extending the preventive detention." What's outrageous about it, beyond the multiple resets, is that in Japan they contradicted this common principle:
- if we have enough proofs against him, we're putting him to trial (in Europe the preventive detention is usually limited to 30 days, time in which they can build a case if there is one);
- if we don't have much proof when the preventive detention ends (no resets!), but we still believe he can be convicted, we're putting him to trial (not very common in the US, because of the costs of a trial that would be lost by the prosecution);
- regardless of the proofs, if we, the prosecution, believe no judge would condemn him, we just release it, case closed.
Now, they didn't have any proof against Carlos Ghosn, so what they did amounts to psychological torture (and w/o any lawyer!), which is illegal everywhere else. If you resist to this torture and don't "confess," you can stay 1-2 years under arrest and w/o seeing a judge.
Oh, but in Japan, the conviction rate is not 99.99%, but more like 99.4%. To reach 99.8%...99.99%, you must try Russia and China.
Otherwise, the phenomenon of "admitting your guilt" in the hope of a lighter sentence is very common in the US. It's called "the DA is offering you a deal," and most cases go through it. What you see in the movies, with a jury and a full trial, only happens in about 4% of the criminal cases.
Holy shit that's terrible. I now think considerably less of Japan...
@@Imdan92 Correct. This is what a lot of people DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND when travelling to foreign countries like China, Dubai, Thailand, Saudi, Bali etc. People are so deep in denial, they always think “Oh it will never happen to me”. Or my favourite “If that was true, it would be on the news”. It never occurs to them, that truely important things are never on the news.
@@derludditus2758 I started to read your post thinking you were shilling, but that's a very good point about comparing the use of the extensions of apprehension and denial of bail with the American practice of negotiating a plea with the DA.
BOTH systems are coercive to confessions.
I share Jake's view of Asian culture. I grew up with a ton of Chinese pride, but while I still love the heritage that I was born with, age and experience has given me a more critical view of Asian culture. There's a lot to like, but the conformity and mindless adherence to tradition can create uncreative drones. That's why their smartest come here, where their creativity and intellect will be rewarded.
it's pretty straightforward why Nissan wants him gone, it's not just an issue of patriotism but an issue of national interest. if Nissan merges with a foreign company, or have majority foreign shareholder and operations, the company could very much lose at lot of revenue for the Japanese government(especially bad considering the debt crisis), and the company could also lose a lot of special favors or subsidies from the government, and that is not to mention the Yakuza investment in the company.
Your assumptions are correct, Japan has two types of companies foreign and domestic. The foreign companies like Sony, Panasonic are their to pull in Gaijin investment whereas the domestic companies are run by the Japanese Shadow government Nissan, Nikon and NHK and are ultimately their to befit the Japanese people at the top ultimately Japanese will never let these companies fall into the hands of Gaijin, because they are more than just companies or brands.
@@KallusGarnet could Mitsubishi Motors be at the same position as Nissan?? Because Mitsubishi has their issues when it was with DaimlerChrysler.
@@pedrolmaldonado1554 could be too. remember in WW2 who build stronger war ship for japan ? it was the Mitsubishi of thats era.
Is the yakuza still a "polite" mafia?
why didn't they do anything with sony lol?
sony is now completely american almost???
the headquarter moved to america, also they has not had a single japanese exec in years
Fun fact: Japan has a 90% conviction rate. If you get arrested, don't count on the court to help you. To Japan, the judicial system must prevail.
Then don't do anything stupid. Great deterrent.
Not 90%, it's 99%. Horrifying
@@SydneyCarton2085 ever heard of 1984?
@@SydneyCarton2085 you can anger someone who's powerful like asking you to have sex and refuse that's enough to end up somehow behind bars
Like the conviction rate of the FBI 😂
In Chinese, we have a thousand years old meme:
功高盖主, 必死无疑
In a kingdom, when your effort/contribution/power is exceeded the king, you are dead.
Probably true everywhere nowaday
which one (effort/contribution/power ) is the literal translation
@@ko-Daegu Contribution (towards the mission or nation or whatever you are in with your boss)
Does this mean that greed will trip you up every time or pride comes before a fall?
Remember when the japanese government refused to extradite former president of Peru Fujimori to face criminal charges simply because he was japanese descended?
Reminds me of the criminal reunion scene from The Dark Knight, "The Chinese will never extradite one of their own".
@@marcusanark2541 more like east asian
Sounds pretty based to me.
I remember!
That is exactly why Japan is never allowed to have a military ever again for all eternity, and will forever lick American boots. Because they enjoy being racist little fucks and we already showed the world once how we feel about it.
Japan is so hostile to foreigners, my aunt did a lot of business there in the 90s. As a Lebanese, I was convinced from the start that it was a powerplay and conspiracy against Carlos Ghosn. Thank you for covering the topic.
Yea they are my guy who lived there pointed out their age different rules for gajians. Apparently the CEO was embezzling money but so we’re all the board members but he was a outsider so he had to go… Combine that with the messed up legal system and being a outsider he was screwed
Dude i was sure of it from the moment i saw in the news, even if my country is run by guys like him (which always makes me doubt about them), knowing the japanese i was sure of it.
okay... and when a white person goes to Chad or Yemen nobody seems to care about the hostility. Leave the Japanese alone, they are literally hostile to foreigners because if they aren't Japan won't exist.
Nigerians are much more easier to work with and many Lebanese do business there, especially across much of west and southern Sub Sahara Africa. This is a strawman argument. Its a fact Japan is hostile to foreign businessmen and people who are not of the country who work there. And I made no mentions of those places you speak also because its not relevant to the conversation above!
Always hear this about Japanese people
The most painful part of the story is hearing that the Americans handed over the green beret and his son to be thrown in a medieval Japanese prison for pretty much freeing a hostage.
It’s almost public knowledge that they treat their soldiers and veterans like trash. They try to silence whistleblowers, support unregulated capitalism and constantly do insider trading, it’s sad that they’re as corrupt as their counterparts
I'm 100% Japanese and I can confirm that Japanese are very racially exclusive especially in the business sector. Not only that but they are exclusive against any coworkers that are disagreeable or 'doesn't fit the group'. Both my parents hated this culture and ran away, my mother being a very extroverted outgoing character and my father for being a misfit introvert. No matter the case, Japanese culture is strictly on the norm of "出た杭は打たれる" which is borderline illegal in the United States, for instance just imagine being outcast in a work environment because you're from Nigeria and don't speak English too well. I'm sure this happens, but with proof you can bring it to court. This is just culture but it's borderline questioning human ethics as well. Post-war Japanese has started to be more receptive of outside culture, but even then this sociological ideal has not, especially in the older generations. The anime and gaming industry has an edge towards outside culture because even that was outcasted by the society for a long time. Manga is deviant! and people who delve into them are Otakus! Only in the past generation has this pressure been relieved via further popularity in anime. But in my parents generation people they would strictly stop them from watching any animes, though even then some staple comedic animes were starting to track mainstream attention like Starblazers.
idk you just hate japan. like how am i supposed to talk to somebody who doesnt know english? the reason as to why you can sue anybody over anything in the us is bc in the us everybody wants to think that they are a victim so they could feel better about themselves .
Manga has been having a eff on Japanese society by exposing the wrongs of the current culture.
Nah, it’s like that in the US as well. It’s a human nature thing
Wait even anime like dbz, speed racer, ghibli movies and astroboy
@@sebas8225 to be fair most manga don't devle deeper into it just surface level of it and then it's forgotten after few chapters
The REAL irony is that after they resented him, they ended up doing the same things to try and remain profitable.
Total lol at that.
He was just a scapegoat, Japanese people are extremely pretentious. They didn't want to do the job of firing all those Japanese people so they hired a dumb Gaijin tool to do the bidding for them, that way no Japanese person gets the blame, it's extremely clever, problem is that he embezzled a lot of money away from them at the same time business is a dirty game.
@@KallusGarnet Yea your correct but all of them including the Japanese were embezzling Money. I think like you said they just wanted him to take the fall because he is a outsider.
@@thanors2 I'm a Gaijin born and raised in Japan I know how they think, every Japanese board member embezzled money out of the company, the problem they have is that a Gaijin isn't allowed to do this and get away with it. One rule for Japanese another rule for Gaijin, remember your place, you will never be one of us type of attitude.
And he was foolishness enough to do this to a Zaibatsu company, who have ties to Yakuza, very risky move.
@@KallusGarnet I completely understand and yea I know for gajin we can’t do what they do. That was my point should of out in my post but I agree he was stupid for thinking he could play their game when they make the rules
Kallus Garnet Hey, just say those Japanese people or most rich Japanese people or something like that, you can’t go out here saying “Japanese people are (all) pretentious”
I remember seeing his face all-over the news in Japan years ago. They didn't really tell much of what he's accused of other than being a former ceo of NIssan. Great to finally have clarification on what really happened.
Towards the end of the video it made more sense. Large companies in Japan and South Korea work closely with the government. Like government on their payroll closely. Ever heard of the Samsung family? Might be a good video for Jake to do one on them!
Yeah thats called the Asia model. Government helps big corporations succeed in order to grow the economy.
How do you think Honda, Sony etc went from garage workshops after ww2 to megafactories in 10 years? Because govmnt gave them zero interest billion dollar loans etc etc.
Yes. A video about Samsung would be excellent.
Not uncommon with national interests at stake. Sovereign risk or assurance guarantees economic leverage to a degree.
If Japan never lost the war, there would still be zaibatsus similar to Samsung.
They still locked up Jay Y Lee which is the samsung boss right now... that tells me enough. The country cannot be TOO corrupt if they put their most powerful in prison.. including their first female president. Here in the US the top 1% can get away with ANYTHING.. probably the same in Japan as well. Stock manipulation is so real.
Ghosn was born in the same small city I got raised; since that place is an absolute hellhole, I wish he could had fixed it just like he made with other companies; maybe brazilian politics were too messy for him to deal with. Anyway, it still surprises me that some from the same shit place I came from managed to become such a big corp CEO (and now a fugitive).
If it could be possible to privatise a city...
@@Autarke that would be monarchy all over again
@@ghost_font4087 More like corporatocracy, i guess.
@@Autarke It's kinda plutocratic/kleptocratic like Marcos's Phillipines: Little free market, and only allowed for those with close ties with the gov't.
Brasil é complicado
Very interesting to watch this. I remember hearing the news of his escape, but never know the details of why he was escaping in the first place. Watching the video from the beginning I was waiting for the part where you tell us he bribed someone or took unethical/illegal business shortcuts. I was surprised he went over all that for such a common rich people practice and worst others in the company did so too.
I used to work for an American semiconductor test company, and a project I lead won a major contract in Japan. We would not have beaten domestic competition if our product hadn't been better by a large margin. When I visited, the Japanese were very welcoming, but I got the impression they wouldn't have been if I had tried to stay long-term.
You are not Japanese, why should you overstay your welcome?
@@SydneyCarton2085 exactly what I was wondering
@@SydneyCarton2085 You sound like one of those guys who would unironically watch and laugh at Ben Shapiro’s videos. Do they not have the right to immigrate to any country solely because they aren’t some specific race?
@@na-ok2pk i think you missed the point there ( it’s sarcasm)
@@SydneyCarton2085 so you are telling me if you are not a certain race you don’t have the right to stay in a certain country ? Wowwww
His prison experience, especially the interrogations, sounds like the early Soviet Union, just without the torture.
Solitary confinement is torture in itself. Add to that it being in a windowless box! I spent a night in a police holding cell alone and it was a horrible experience. Can't imagine being in solitary for 108 days with no hope of getting a fair trial to prove one's innocence
*physical torture
@@hydrolifetech7911 That is true, but I guess I was trying to say it's not exactly as bad as the Soviet prisons, but it's scarily close. Also, basically being imprisoned for nothing. I'm reading Gulag Archepelego at the moment, so that as what I noticed.
@@hydrolifetech7911 Worst part is, they probably don't tell you how long you'll be in solitary confinement for!
yet that wasnt as bad as American guantanamo bay
Good video. I‘m glad that people learned about Japan‘s horrible „justice“ system and treatment of immigrants. I wish there were more videos and news articles about people who are even worse off than him, like Vietnamese „trainees“ and all the refugees etc. who spent years detained at immigration facilities, which are worse than prisons, and even get killed by immigration officers regulary. More people need to learn about this and call Japan out on it.
Japan is Ass-a-hole like that for sure. Its coming to a head, they've backed themselves into the no breeding corner. This means that they cannot sustain this closed borders nonsense for long, which is sad, its why Japan is still very much as Japanese as ever.
You’ll see a little of this in the anime IWGP
Imagine a non-Japanese CEO of Sony of Indian descent making facilities in India with joint-ventures with Samsung and that those joint-ventures with Samsung factories in India become solely Sony factories using Samsung methods.
That will put Japanese trainees to go trained in Bombay to make TVs and other sorts of equipment that is done by the Samsung method with facilities that started as joint ventures with Samsung.
I've got a Japanese friend and when I told her about this video she said she wasn't surprised about both the way he was treated in the work environment and by the judicial system. Apparently it's very common for people who are too different from the majority to be completely socially excluded and even despised for being different (having an uncommon interest, different religious beliefs or culture and yeah even race or ethnicity unfortunately). With the judicial system she told me something insane which is that Japan has a 99% conviction rate, I didn't believe her and I even had to search it up just to see and sure enough she wasn't lying, apparently it's a very guilty until proven innocent system and there tends to be a lot of tunnel vision when it comes to gathering evidence and prosecuting someone.
So same as u.s then unless you're rich
I thought Japanese people envied and looked up to white people, viewing them as being superior
@@cardinalrule6810 lmao, every first world country knows america is a third world country with a gucci belt nowadays
@@cardinalrule6810 apparently not, they don't exactly have the best view of White people, specifically Americans. They don't look down on them but they find some of their habits and mannerisms strange and annoying specifically the way they act in public and their hygiene habits like wearing outdoor shoes in the house - to be fair we do that here in South Africa too). Japanese people are also extremely proud of their country and traditions, it's just not as outspoken as Americans apparently and they say they wouldn't change their nationality or ethnicity for any other.
@@zamanimvukela4573 if Japanese people have so much pride, I still don’t understand why they make all of their manga and anime characters look like white people
Well, you can sure bet that I'm going to pretend to be real educated about Nissan now
Damn
So we canceling Nissan - From a guy who can't afford em
nice touch Cleb "claim to be...". Actually this doesn't change my view of nissan at all. Nissan is not just this episode, as it is the sum of work of every employee evrr working for them
Bad idea lol
I remember reading something about Japanese conviction rates being high/ crime rate being so low is essentially because the police departments do not pursue criminal charges unless they're sure they can get a conviction. Essentially they will cherry pick the incidents they respond to, and cherry pick even further the ones that they will "legally" pursue. If they'll "take the case" it's either because they do know they can get a confession, or because they know they can strong arm you into getting one.
The fact that a company can just send police to someone and get him arrested without a good reason should already be a scandal
I never expect to watch to the end but your storytelling is too good - hooked
Guys go private be self financing like the warburgs Rockefeller Rothschild's bureaucracy is not a meritocracy but a kakistocracy you've been warned
I’ve never not finished his videos. I even watch the sponsored ads.
Nice name bro
@Heinous Anus my pleasure bro if you want tips how to be self financing and generate a lot of cash I can give you if you want
I am Lebanese, I was in Japan for few months working on a project. I really loved Japan and its people, very impressive. At the same time, I have great respect to what Carlos Ghosn achieved in business. I can't tell if he is guilty or innocent but the whole story looks like a conspiracy. Why would a company arrest its own savior and keep him in prison without access to a lawyer?
Money... duh?
japans cringe buisness culture.
Japan's backwards notions regarding "saving face." They didn't like that a gaijin exposed their failure, so they decided to attack the gaijin. It's the same stupid ignorance that caused them to attack Pearl Harbor and to genocide their neighbors during WWII; the same ignorance that got two bombs dropped on them. People like to think Japan is all smiles and weeb-friendly J-pop, when really it's Yakuza Triads and cuthroat corporate dominance.
This definitely changed my perspective on Japan.
I'm sure you'd enjoy reading about what happened on Asian territories occupied by Japan during WW2
You should also read what happened to zaibatsu. Japan deserves to become hell-hole like Venezuela. Their government has history of persecuting people who fix their economies. Japan is pretty much text book of fascism, and I'm not saying this as left winger but as right winger.
Japan... is great to look at but not be at.
A shock
Me too
This is such an incredible story! Clicked immediately. Awesome topic! Thanks for making this!
So You watched a 22 minute story in 2 Minutes?
@@simpoly6929 i already know the story! I followed it when it was breaking news. That’s why I said “awesome topic” and “incredible story”.
Thank you for this video. I had not heard about this case and it saddens me as it shows that the grass is only greener in one's mind. I had heard that Japan's legal system had problems but I was sorely disappointed that there could be such a miscarriage of justice. If the man was guilty of a crime, surely they had enough evidence to convict him...but if they have to keep trumping up additional charges, it reeks of a dystopian legal system. Kafka would be proud.
This reminds of when the UFC bought PRIDE and the japanese gov+the yakuza pushed them out of japan.
Hahaha great pfp and username
What im a fan of ufc myself and didn't know about that
Well both had organized crime elements and still might.
Is pride a company or a gay pride thing?
@@thewhitewolf58 Pride Fighting Championships
"Idealic paradise"
As an anime fan who's been watching anime since 13, I never did understand the weeb dream of living in Japan. If you ever watch shows that aren't battle shounens or romcoms you'll notice a constant critic of Japan. It's mainly exaggeration but anime and manga love to point out how awful Japan is. Power abuse, forced overtime, unpaid overtime(because it's for the company), always respect the order of things no matter what, don't draw attention to yourself, bullying, "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down." Also while Japan is still probably one of the safest countries in the world, the police only investigate when they can get a prosecution so murders sometimes get filed as suicides to save time.
Yeah
i love anime and manga but i would hate to live and work in japan
I think he said 'idyllic'; 'idealic' is a misspelling of 'idealistic'
For someone who lives in a 3 world country, Japan is a paradise.
It's all a mater of perspective.
@@josefonseca9178 There are many developed countries that are not awful like Japan, try Liechtenstein, Estonia, Switzerland, Norway, Monaco, New Zealand, Australia etc.
@@marcusanark2541 Yeah, but there are worst countries too.
I did my bachelors in Japan for 5 years, and it was the best time of my life.
No country is perfect, just different.
Foreigners are really looked down upon in Japan. Look up how hard it is to move there. Most landlords won’t rent to foreigners, and if they do you have to speak Japanese better than the Japanese themselves do. They do a good job making their culture and country seem like this mysterious, cute friendly place, but there’s a lot of stuff behind the scenes that’s horrible. Maybe Ghosn was being shady and was illegally increasing his salary, but it was Nissan’s disdain for having a foreigner run their company that led to the arrest.
Japan is for the Japanese, keep that in mind and you'll get along here just fine. That's the reason it's still nice. Just came from L.a. where tents fill the streets. Every place has its downside.
@@jileelmcdaniels5549 ask yourself if that would sound xenophobic should you have said that about a European Country or The US. How is it any different than back in 2016 when during the presidential election a lot of people openly came out and shouted about how the US needed to close off its southern border? Japan puts on a much nicer facade than the US does, but as a whole the people are far more xenophobic than any western country. They just get a pass because they have a big stage on the global market. Is Japan’s absurd 99% conviction rate also a part of keeping Japan nice?
@@andyn46 America and Europe should close its borders. It's people are suffering due to uncontrolled immigration. The current situation is unsustainable.
"Foreigners are really looked down upon in Japan. Look"
If this is the case, why do Japanese people make many of their anime and manga characters look white (even if they're supposed to be Japanese)?
@@cardinalrule6810if you look at paintings and art they created hundreds or years before their contact with Europeans they still portrayed light skinned people. It’s considered attractive to have lighter skin
People always talk about the unique organizational structure of yakuza syndicates, but what they don't know is that yakuza operate according to many Japanese business and government practices. It's as ruthless as it is bureaucratic and nationalistic.
It's crazy once you understand this, like it's genius but extremely depressing at the same time like Japan is a country stuck in an eternity of a Mexican stand off.
Japan is a nice place. But the more I look into how it’s society operates, I feel more thankful I grew up in the States.
Let's be honest, we all like japan only because it's history before ww2. Their modern state is just made out of corrupted and dishonorable people.
@@Tespri we all like Japan because of its history before ww2? Really?
@@PAYDAYHEDGE yep only thing that people cared about was samurais and ninjas
Yep we don't like Japan at all because of DBZ, One Piece, Naruto etc...
@@Tespri no dude we like it because of anime
This is insane, like something out of a movie or TV drama. I was aware of his arrest, but not about his treatment by the Japanese prison system.
108 days in solitary is hardcore.
Specially for a millionaire who spent his life travelling on private jets and luxury hotels.
@@brianbouf8303 hey he earned it without being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I'll say it was Tuesday for him
@@brianbouf8303 sometimes having had amazing experiences on your belt helps you accept the bad times easier so I'd say it's complicated.
For any human it will drive you insane.
@@brianbouf8303 when you so broke, you think that was his whole life
Although I really like anime and Japanese food, I never would've wish of living in Japan after learning about the suicide rate and the toxic working environment where making use of your paid leave is deemed disrespectful/unethical.
But the West especially the USA does the same thing
@@helenamasiala3694 it's not the same level, America is bad with leave unlike most of the west, but the pressure to work in Japan is on another ballpark, Sleep in employees is commonplace and the massive society pressure to not take leave is incredibly over barring, the suicide rate is stupidly high and the amount of people who just break down and become shut ins is also very common.
Outstanding job Mr. Jake. Lots of detail, and human nature is rarely captured with so many players, in an expose. Bravo.
I was actually an intern in Nissan (Nissan Design North American) when this all started to unravel. I remember all sorts of programs being canceled and my internship extension that i wanted so bad getting canceled as well.
The Ghosn case clearly shows that Japan is not a "full democracy" as the Economist says, but a make-believe democracy set up immediately after the 2WW defeat to compete with the West on a more friendly basis. The old Zaibatsu elites never gave up their power. See chapter "Japan: A superficially democratic state" by Howe and Oh (2008).
Economist is a British propaganda anyways, it said in the 80s that German Auto Industry is a car going 100mph off a cliff..... when British was.
@@jvanek8512 When you have a group of bully in a democracy the law would be bully as well. Look at the US Southern states back in the Jim Crow era.
God to read this comments from westeners is SO stupid. The USA and the EU are not a real democracy either and even reduced more the last 20 years to a point complety abbolsihed in 2020 but mjaoirty simply does not realise it because never properly educated how the legal system, voting and finance really works in reality.
@@maggiejetson7904 Lock at the US and especially the northern state these days. emergency law tyranny taking away basic human rights and forcing not porper longterm tested medical treatment desastrous in animal testing only with emergncy license to the public and discriminate exrtemly the ones who do not want that. But because it is not the typical idoelogical categories we are used to and because it is for "our health and to safe lives" (what it always is regardless wich ieology) majority accepts it and does not see the danger. Australia already officaly builds quqrantine camps, washington seem to do as well and peole worry rightfully the FEMA buildings not being used to help rufgees and homeless-
@@kidaria1333 maybe learn to spell before sprouting rubbish. My eyes hurts.
I own a large-format printing company. My two biggest customer are 1) Nissan North America, and 2) Michelin Tire.
Thanks Carlos Ghosn!
"I make sure you knew I was Asian first so you [UA-cam] can't cancel me."
- Wise quotes from Jake
Hasn't stopped determined morons before lol😂 just look at Buck Angel
He's an old school trans (been transitioned for over a decade) but lots of Trans folks hate on him cause he says the "wrong" thing
@@rejvaik00 thats a specific example lol!
@@samuellambertmurrayduncan1412 lol you gotta give specific examples when you trying to inform people especially in this day and age
Wait....i'm a latino. Does that make me inmune too?
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 nope, them morons even throw shade at Gloria Alvarez
She's a Guatemalan whose family escaped communism and despite that, they do nothing but hurl canceling efforts one after another towards her because she says the "wrong" thing latin americans aren't supposed to say
Jake idk if you took classes to lean videography or editing or youre self taught or what but bro you make some of the most fire videos on all of youtube.. You somehow have figured out the perfect formula to make your content entertaining, educational, informative, and exponentially diverse. Usually people stick to a particular niche or genre but you cover practically everything. Keep it up bro, I love your stuff. You have a gift.
Promotions based on seniority only, lifelong job positions (even if you heavily underperform), CEO's salaries much lower than in the US... plus intense resentment and conspiracy planning, even towards the person who literally saved your company from disappearing. It really doesn't look like Japan is a great place to go for a career boost like I hoped.
Hey guys , Lebanese expatriate here , the feeling is mixed about him here. Some people think he was definitely mistreated and would be great if he get to power here in Lebanon . Others think that he probably was corrupt and considering the fact that he has become friends with a corrupt ruling elite , that he would deepen Lebanon’s financial problems
Personally, I think it's a little bit of both. He was probably the type that pushes for results even if he needs to do some disgusting deal while at the same time Japan probably leave him be to some extent when he still give them profits but the deal ends after they started losing money.
I think with the bad condition Lebanon is in it couldn’t do much worse then try giving him power.
Idk what to say but ahlen 7ayeh Lebanese living in Atlanta Georgia here !
Well, He got "I did absolutely nothing wrong and it's anyones but my fault" part down.
That's half the rent of being a "good" politician.
@@alwalude hello my friend , I wanna visit ATL soon
I cant even explain how am i fascinated by your content, always watching every documentary, you are phenomenal man, keep up the extremly awesome work !
They had the one man able to rescue anyone from financial ruin and bring them back to success. It would be a major blunder to let him go, instead they opt to make a mortal enemy of him and attempt to ruin his life. Now they're facing financial ruin again and desperately need his help, I have to wonder if they feel it was worth it. Is losing that much money really worth hurting someone you dislike. Sure he might cut jobs, but not having a company exist tends to do that too. Baffling.
The most sad part to me is that Ghosn isn't able to work for other companies anymore. People like that desperately need the challenge and drive, companies need his touch after Covid more than ever. But he is forced to remain away from it all. This isn't morally right for Ghosn, and it isn't in the public interest either. Equally odd that western nations haven't acted to stop this so they can reap the economic benefits of Ghosn's work.
Most plebeians would see him as a criminal without reading into the details, and that might end up costing the company. Maybe he’s consulting companies from afar, who knows? He has power, and some companies can really pay their way into secrecy.
@@AlterRektMLG Thats a fair point, though people like that really need the 70 hour work weeks too. There's only so much he can really do with maybe 5 hours of consultation and none of the financial details or inner secrets he'd normally have. He really needs to be on the board of directors at the least, but thats an obviously very public move people can't do. Still, hopefully the fact that he is an incredibly famous example of extreme corruption in the Japanese system means that enough people know he isn't guilty. Especially given how many people did the exact same thing for the same company yet nothing happened.
@@olivialambert4124 Well yeah, it wouldn’t be bad to see him revitalize a couple of companies before he takes his final break from work. But he probably already has enough, and may not be looking for more.
If it was China US media would be going nuts.
@@AlterRektMLG I really hope this were true
"I saved this company, and all of your worthless lives."
- Carlos Ghosn
He also committed financial misconduct
@@akihikosakurai4013 They all committed financial misconduct, he's just get another role as scapegoat.
@@signumxmagnum oh well, that's just how business works
Well at least he escaped on a boat with Varus
@@akihikosakurai4013 but that's not how it should work.
Neither it is how he was jailed.
It was also a little stupid given that, because they jailed Carlos Ghosn, now everybody knows that the other executives are corrupt.
And if everybody was doing financial misconduct, then he wasn't jailed because of it. He was jailed because he was too succesful for being foreign and wanted to merge with Renault.
So in the eyes of the executives, it is more important to kick out the gaijin guy that's doing the same as them, than to protect business image. That's a little fucked up and kind of racist.
Gotta love Jake Tran for these Netflix production level documentaries. 👌
This is how you make a documentary, brilliant work my friend.
now all we need to have, is "how Jake Tran get all this kind information and survive in the process"
edit: Hi guys, my greatest achievement is creating a world war 3 in the comment section. hooray
why would he reveal his secrets? that would put him in danger, he's probably got it set up to reveal them when he dies though so that others can replicate him by improving on it
@@corvusnocturne Like in Fast and Furious, he drives at high speed all night in a supercar...
Donut Media already covered this topic months ago. Not exactly "CIA gonna kill ya" type info.
Wikipedia. But it's not what you tell, it's how you tell it.
He utilized skillshare
I don't think Carl did something bad. Someone is setting him up.
What he did isn't illegal in most of the countries, these are things the companies should solve internally between then because it isn't fraud but rather different internal decisions about where their money should go.
@@ConanOG He got too big headed. The Yakuza put him in his place. He knew it was time to go
@@MrGreen-dp4oz The he went on Suitcase is one of the biggest flexes ever.
I'm not sure about the (original) charges, they could be right, but the way he was treated / his case was handled was just plain wrong.
BUT as Jake stated Japan seems to be very hierarchical and patriarchal another case that show just how much is Olympus (Bloomberg did a video on how they hid huge losses while officially showing nice profits. A newly appointed CEO went against the old founder (who made and hid the losses but now for quite some time had no official function in the company) by asking too many questions and was immediately removed from the company, threatened and persecuted.)
@@MrGreen-dp4oz Yakuza is dead. Nothing to do with Yakuza. Just typical politicians and bureaucrats being jealous.
Damn. I was living in Japan back then and he was depicted as a criminal and a coward around the time he left. I never heard the real reasons for his arrest, the media were so vague about it (or my japanese was insufficient).
Thanks for summing it up.
I've been in Japan for 15 years now. You really start to see the dark side quite quickly. Jake didn't even scratch the surface of the Ghosn scandal though, there was so much more happening...
What dark was happening?
Like what, be specific.
@@JarodM that would and does take many pages. The Asia Times Ghosn articles by Roger Schreffler are a very good start (make sure to read in order! Things get complex quickly)
@@CuivTheLazyGeek Thanks~👍
My former step dad is Vietnamese/Chinese.
Can confirm they are very uninclusive of other cultures and races, we were put down consistently by his 9 siblings, but his father a Vietnamese veteran of the war fought them for us, of which were are very grateful for defending us from his children's ostracication.
Whats your Mom's ethnicity?
I'll never buy a Nissan again after hearing about this corruption etc! Can you trust this company to produce a safe vehicle for you and your family?!
One thing for sure Carlos made Japan as a country, government, judicial system and business culture look stupid I mean really stupid I bet they regret arresting him in the first place.
Nope they don't their only regret they didn't do it sooner and that he got away to spill the beans.
@@KallusGarnet Nah, they needed him the most.
@@hbtm2951 they do but the Japanese Ego want allow them to accept it.
Stranger you will always be a Gaijin nothing more nothing less.
Was this guy good at cost cutting? Yes. Did this cost cutting result in the decrease in vehicle reliability? Yes. Did he deserve to be treated the way he was? Absolutely not. However, the measures he was implementing would prove to be a successful short term strategy, but in the long term… Not so much. I think fellow car enthusiasts might agree with me here that Nissan’s reputation for building reliable vehicles was negatively affected by the cost cutting measures of Carlos Ghosn. There is a reason why Honda and Toyota vehicles retain their value way better than Nissan cars nowadays. There is a reason why older Nissans have depreciated way less than newer Nissans and I do believe this man can partially be blamed for it.
he merge some of the manufacturing so nissan cars and renault cars have the same components, some cars even are the same car with diferent bodywork, now the thing is that nissan cars where going to shit before Ghosn came the company, you can see that in the time he wasn't a CEO no more, the nissan quality has not increased, he just cut a lot of bullcrap parts from the company and lower or bring them down to the quality of renault, he also revive the gtr and the nissan z, and introduced the leaf, nissan could have been the company tesla is today
Nissan was (is?) going under anyways, he just extended the life of the company
He had to do it to prolong the life of Nissan, unfortunately it involved collaboration with Renault using alot of shared parts, a company not known for making quality cars.
@あきひろさとり a very effective short term solution type of CEO to rapidly lift the company out of the danger zone.
I agree with you any nissan after 2005 are crap I just didn't know why this happened now it make sense
Doesn't surprise me at all, I remember when Pride was still a big player in the MMA scene, they had yakuza thugs showing up at a fighter's manager's hotel room and threatening to shoot them if they didn't sign their fighter's contract over to them.
The way he was treated in prison it’s no surprise he fled the country.
Reminds you of commie countries or how the US deals with "difficult" prisoners in blacksites
Great lesson for anyone in Business: TRUST NO ONE, NOT EVEN YOURSELF.
I understand not to trust anyone but why I shouldn't trust my own self ?
( that is a genuine question by the way)
@@shl9322 it's just cringe cope of people wanting to be their own worse enemy instead of a actually trusting/love themselves to get out of hell.
@@rb9951 Having a clear view on yourself and your actions is very important on the fighting stage of business. Too much self-love can fog over your view.
@@shl9322 Not everyone has a gut instinct for cut throat business. Which is why you cannot trust yourself in that world unless you are willing to go beyond your own moral instincts if you have them. There is a reason sociopaths run a lot of things from countries to business. I have a sociopath directly in charge of my department, they can be charming but they are manipulative and see nothing wrong with what they do or how they hurt people.
Awesome video man! I can't believe the production value
Next: “Why Jake Tran is a wanted enemy of the state.”
"The suspicious dissapearance of Jake Tran"
This stuff is common knowledge, people are just stupid and care more about trumps tweets than this
"how jake tran commited suicide by 12 shots to the back of his head"
@@preke953 and he committed suicide so professionally he revived from the dead after the first shot to shoot himself more
"Did you know Japan can be so corrupt?"
Um, yes. Anime basically teaches that constantly. The fact that "Idols" exist at all is proof of their corruption.
The rampant bullying that often borders into actual abuse and assault is a pretty good indicator as well.
Much of the social structure is so screwed up that "being corrupt" is basically a given. It's more surprising to find someone with any sense of honor, fair play, or dignity in that culture. Which is, you know, probably why so many "check out" of living there and become hikkikomori.
Yup there is a reason suicide rates there are high
Exactly lol.
@@TheJarlath9 japan is a hellhole
What is a hikikomori
@@kefadaedits5723 Basically, it's a more extreme version of a "NEET". These are people who have typically checked out of society 100% and live almost entirely in their own rooms. They do not visit with their family if they can avoid it, they do not go outside, they do not get jobs, they do not go to stores if they can help it...
Basically, they engross themselves in entertainment because living in reality hurts them too much to interact with it.
It's a massive problem in Japan where a lot of youths are "checking out" of society and their families are taking care of them.
From my understanding of the way their society runs as well as their values, it is really the only "viable" option for most people who aren't "the social norm". That is, these people tend to be outcasted to some degree or are unable to meet the exceptionally high standards their society places upon them... and so effectively give up.
Japanese society is basically a constant game of "Keeping up with the Joneses". You compete with your peers in school. In social standing, in sports activities, in academics, and even in fun outside hobbies like video games. Their entire society is endless competition in which if you're not the best, then you should bow before your betters and spend your time assisting them and praising them.
Japanese society, as a result, has very little recourse for anyone who has been "wronged". Someone spreads nasty and untrue rumors about you? It's your fault. Someone bullies you and destroys your property? It's not only your fault... but you'll be looked down upon for reporting it to authorities. You have a mental health issue? Your fault, and people will think worse of you for seeking help.
Japanese society tends to be a very lonely existence in which everyone is either resigned to depression or high strung from paranoia and fear. This is a society that takes you out to drink in order to get you to say unfiltered things about people or your business so that they can use it against you to destroy you. This is a society that DOES NOT embrace innovation and often destroys people who DO innovate.
It isn't difficult to see why so many become hikkiomori.
The Japanese are too rigid and too caught up in their pettiness to do anything more than create a society of mal-adjusted mentally ill people.
20:20 "Carlos Ghosn is safe in Beirut"
I don't think anyone can be truly safe in Beirut.
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I made sure you knew I was Asian first, so you can't cancel me" *GOLD* 😂😂😂
Wow! Extremely interesting and educative.
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Dang this is insane. What a strong person Gohen is tho. Respect.
I thought I knew this story but you blew it wide open! Great vid!!
Jake must be working 16-hour days at this point, in order to pump out so much quality content.
I never comment, like never...OK, I was just willing to say what I felt the day and the week of his arrest. I was shocked. Not because of his potential crimes. But how in less than one hour, a man who came in Japan as I did, after 20 years of hard work was just erased. Put to shame. How dirt was put to his name so easily, and please MARK MY WORDS, not a single Japanese individual defended him and all accepted the official version without any hesitation. I don't know Carlos Ghosn, but this was hard. Not a single person defended him. Also the documentary does not speak about the amount of money spent by Nissan to destroy his reputation, paid articles and so on.
The result you know it.
Since Leaf, not a single model is having good market results.
Renault was kind of obliged to follow Nissan plan.
And now what???
Is Nissan better of??
Is Nissan back to winning market shares.
As I said I was so morally chocked by the way, Japanese media, everyone was willing to destroy his image.
I completely lost any fate in a potentiality of Japan to change from the inside.
Four videos in one week? I guess Jake has found a way to freeze time. You’re on a roll mate! (and on multiple lists)
The world needs to redefine the concept of good and bad because this is officially madness.
Your videos ARE SO INTERESTING AND WELL CONSTRUSCTED
This was a fascinating documentary. I remember hearing about the criminal justice system in Japan. Yeah. In Japan, you have to prove your innocence. Japanese Jails are very austere. You don't get fed enough, and your family have to bring meals to the inmate, so that they can eat more.
I've never personally been in a Japanese jail or got in trouble with the law over there, but when I was in the Marines, I spent six months in Okinawa, and as part of orientation, this was explained to us Marines. The thing with the Japanese criminal justice system is that sentences are much more austere against foreigners. So, I can see how they were acting so corruptly and so unfairly towards Carlos.
Every country has it's own problems and corruption; laws and regulations; culture and public attitude. To say Japan is worse than the United States can be overblown... but It is true that painting Japan as such a peaceful and accepting country overmines it's immense amount of problems. The Judicial System in Japan was one of the most unknown subjects about Japans faults and downsides, until recent years. It's good to see that the Judicial System is getting tons of attention for it's incapability to get a true and just trial, but little is being done to actually change this. It upsets me seeing a once prideful and successful country (during Japan's economic bubble) that is now being slowly and unmercifully choked by it's own culture norms, shrinking population, rising debt, and corruption. I will always love Japan for it's rich history and culture but It is impossible to truly say that it is currently: a wonderful place, with a bustling economy and an accepting culture and government that loves to apply positive change. It's death grip to uphold it's old cultural norms and refuse to change for the bettering of it's nation is truly painful to witness.
Work culture and society pressures in Japan I would say is significantly more unhealthy, but on the other hand the people are more friendly it's much more cleaner and everything tends to work.
@@DabDabGoose while japanes people work more than any of the top 10 GDP counties they are the least productive so what you said indeed is true
Jake, you’re content is as good as anything I’ve seen on CNBC or top documentary
I think he was corrupt, but that wasn't the reason Nissan wanted him gone, since the Japanese ceo did the same thing. Japan is in a weird position, where it doesn't want to risk angering America, but it needs to do a lot of xenophobic things in its natural interests, so they does all these clandestine operations so that they can have their ethno-nationalist mercantilism while still maintaining good PR with Americans.
Do you know they blame Russia for dropping the nuclear bomb 💣. The foreign minister Sergio Lavrov says it in an interview. He said no matter how many times they try to correct it it's a case of smile and wave with the Japanese 😂
Can you do a video on Singapore? My country has very flawed and corrupted government and our law system is really bad. Its always guilty unless you can prove yourself innocent and we don't have human rights when it comes to law. Please see this Jake Tran, I love your videos and I hope someone can share something about how terrible our country is and the crimes we have committed as a country against other countries around the world.
Hey beware of your social credit score, Singaporean govt are monitoring their citizens online activities as well.
@@inbetween8210 That credit score thing is a China thing
What kind of crimes has Singapore committed against other countries? It's kind of hard to imagine such a tiny country doing terrible things.
When the miracle worker CEO with King Midas' touch is arrested for being good at his job and not making the typical ponzi scheme.
I remember reading that the Japanese justice system, pretty much assumes guilty until proven otherwise, but holy didn't expect this level of curription.
Japan's conviction rate is higher than 99%. You're guilty until proven innocent and you are NOT going to be proven innocent.
The idea that an American CEO earns 20x more than the CEO of Toyota is hilarious to me.
The Japanese CEO also gets 20x the political influence.
Toyota is family business, which is why it is better run as it is not just about money.
@@maggiejetson7904 Toyota has been very late to the EV game, despite being early with hybrids and despite having a 10% stake in Tesla at one point. This can end up being very, very costly to Toyota.
@@peterfireflylund LOL they just don't want to enter the market yet, EV power electronics are similar to hybrid and the only thing they are missing out is to buy batteries from Panasonic, LG, and CATL. They can do that now but they usually enter the market to be reliable, not first.
Wait till you hear that minimum wage is actually DOWN but ceo wage is up 977%. I can’t believe the laissave faire doctrine of literally doing nothing is still so popular, and if you notice the people who promote that are usually interested in business. So basically they just want nothing to get into the way of them making more money. I’m sorry but I just don’t trust people to act remotely fairly in business on free will, and Im sure laissev faire people know it wouldn’t be more fair but think that if you can achieve something by any means you deserve it I guess?
The Yakuza wanted him in jail or dead as he was messing with their money by proposing a sales to Renault which would open-up the books. He made the smart move
Japan is known to violate international treaties and conventions that they signed and therefore agreed to. Just look at child kidnapping stories from that country, the foreign spouse usually has no recourse whatsoever despite Japan ratifying the UN convention on the right of the child which clearly states that the child has the right to see both parents. They violate this on a normal basis and they probably violated some other business convention to set up Carlos Ghosn, he hasn't broken any law, he just pissed off the wrong person with the right connections.
Complete bullshit he did broke a lot of laws.
New favorite UA-cam channel right here for sure
I can't wait to use Skillshare to perform another hostile overtaking of Nissan.
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Jake, would you consider doing a documentary about what happened at Olympus, the camera maker?
If I remember correctly, almost the same thing happened at Olympus as what happened at Nissan. So it would be fun to see your take on what happened.
This channel have come so far, I still remember the Stephen Graham video.
Jake should do more videos about CEO’s origin story like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.
Says you Rockefeller!!
Bill Gates: Steal others' ideas and blow the money on the services of Epstein
Zucc: TRY TO LOOK HUMAN
@@srbtlevse16 your too hateful bro!
Finally, a well done video about the subject, with unbiased opinion and fact listing.
Why do I have the feeling this is Ghosn his villain origin story, now he will take down Nissan and their acquaintances.