Carlos Ghosn bitterly recalls being interrogated by Japanese authorities for up to 8 hours a day without a lawyer

Carlos Ghosn.
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Former Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn told his side of the story Wednesday.

Ghosn, who was arrested multiple times in Japan starting in November 2018 on charges of financial misconduct, escaped house arrest in Tokyo in December and fled to Lebanon, a country where he holds citizenship and there is no extradition treaty with Japan. In his public address Wednesday, the car executive was expected to criticize Japan's justice system. And did he ever.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.