> they might jeopardize their legendary 99% conviction rates Isn't your implication that japan's court system is corrupt. So what would the strength of the cas

> they might jeopardize their legendary 99% conviction rates Isn't your implication that japan's court system is corrupt. So what would the strength of the case have to do with it? Wouldn't japan have convicted him regardless of evidence? Or maybe their conviction rate isn't as "legendary" as you think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate Canada's is at 97%, we have a 93% rate in the US. There is more nuance and context to silly reddit posts about japan. > and they decided to look the other way while he “escaped.” My guess is that it was negotiations between japanese politicians/nissan execs and french politicians/renault execs. My guess is that there were some concessions in exchange for letting ghosn flee. What they are, we'll never know. And what ghosn really did to get nissan upset, we'll never know.