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JAIL JAPAN STYLE
While Ghosn may have been worried about the future of Nissan and the Alliance he had built, he had more immediate concerns in 2019. He had spent 130 days in a Japanese jail and was facing up to fifteen years in prison. It was a prospect that few would relish. While Japan’s prisons are typically clean, orderly, and safe, the system is designed to ensure total obedience. Names are replaced with numbers, access to information from outside is tightly controlled, and there are strict rules on when you must sit, stand, or lie down.
The detention centers that hold suspects awaiting trial play a pivotal role in the system dubbed “hostage justice.” They send a clear message to each inmate daily: Confess and you can be free; fight ...
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