There are almost 300 comments on this story and not one of them (that I read) has mentioned how shady the Japanese government have been in the handling of this

There are almost 300 comments on this story and not one of them (that I read) has mentioned how shady the Japanese government have been in the handling of this case. They basically conspired with management at Nissan to have Ghosn taken into custody on trumped up commercial charges because they weren't happy with how they perceived Ghosn was planning to deal with Nissan which were entirely legal. Once they had him in custody they then proceeded drag out the process of his legal situation when they ought to have proceeded as promptly as possible. But since they didn't have much of a legal case they decided to just drag their feet and let him rot in custody. US authorities would do well to put as much investigation effort into the process in Japan as they put in investigating these two.