Q: What were the this year’s big New Year films on Japanese TV?
A: The Great Escape and Ghosn with the Wind.
Former Nissan supremo Carlos Ghosn’s dramatic escape from house arrest in Tokyo in December, ahead of his trial for financial irregularities, has produced plenty of jokes and divided pubic opinion in Japan. Some see Ghosn’s successful flight to Lebanon as damning proof of his guilt, while others still believe he deserves a measure of sympathy and support.
Whether Ghosn really was, as is being reported, smuggled out of his closely surveilled Roppongi residence in an instrument case after a private concert, in a scheme masterminded by his second wife Carole and facilitated by ‘paramilitary groups’, will no doubt become clear in time. All we do know is that his escape via a private jet was successful and he is currently living in Beirut.
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