Whistleblowers making their mark on business world

I would suggest that one reason is because someone got sick and tired of working for a foreign boss that didnt do things the "Japanese" way.

Japanese executives don't typically lead flashy lifestyles and most definitely do not get salaries like their counter parts in one particularly "large" country.

probe into Carlos Ghosn demonstrates the growing power of whistleblowers 

For Gohsn's case, a group of people his company doesn't like him and have information that can implicate him. They whistle blow just because it can make Gohsn go away.

This case is in contrast with Michael Woodford's Olympus.

What 'whistleblower '?? The ghost of old bankrupt Nissan to push away from the final sealed merger Carlos implemented?

No worry about whistle-blowers as long as you are not doing any wrongdoings. He should have been very honest about public and private money. He should not have understated his income and not used company's fund personally as he got big salary every month and he is already very rich man. Too greedy about money seems to ruin his career.

There is now a conspiracy theory that US was involved.

The conspiracy goes like this. Renault is (partially) French Government owned company. French government is its principal shareholder. French government can control Renault. Renault, in turn, can control Nissan as its principal shareholder. The French government in 2015 showed their interest in merging Renault and Nissan. Ghosn, who was initially opposed to such a plan, has changed his mind this year and shown interest in such idea. French government supposedly told Ghosn if he agrees with the plan, he would get another 4 year as Renault top. US did not like the idea. Why? French has close relationship with China and is willing to share technologies with them for financial returns. If French succeed the merging, Japanese technologies will be transferred to China.

I don't believe this conspiracy, of course, but French government may not be blameless for what is unfolding today.

France and its president Emmanuel Macron are hardly blameless. Ghosn himself has regularly tussled with his government about the need to reduce the French state’s 15 percent stake in Renault to clear the way for deeper ties with the Japanese. Instead, Macron enraged Ghosn in 2015 when, as economy minister, he temporarily increased the government’s holding. That didn’t go down too well in Tokyo, which naturally worries about too much French influence over Japan’s carmakers.

(Bloomberg Opinion)

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-22/emmanuel-macron-is-hardly-blameless-over-nissan

Actually this Whistleblower stuff in Japan is bollocks, its subjective and by announcing yourself as a Whistleblower you will be fired more than likely, possibly with a payoff, and by challenging it would be damaging to yourself/family.

with such big transfer of funds, Nissan share-holders in Japan do not know ???. Japanese staffs do not know, How many Kansayaku & account department & top Japanese operators in Nissan ???.Pls stop Joking with a man's life & his family. I think the top gov't officials should start to get serious abt a human & his family's life. In Japan to manupulate the Japanese laws, U got to be Japanese.No good Japanese will do this kind of actions.Danger to the share-holders, danger to the people working at Nissan ???.

Only people who think of themselves as the centre of the attention in Nissan will do this kind of sabotaging a man's life. Carlos is not yet god.

When I say this about the Whistleblowing... I know in person, one who tried, and got Fired under a concocted issue, yet received a sizeable payoff - one has to wonder whether anything will ever be done about issues in Corporate Japan (be them Local or Foreign Organizations). The system remains flawed and decidedly unfriendly towards anyone wishing to "blow the whistle", without perhaps... Political Support, as we will undoubtedly find, will, in Japan, be behind some of these "high profiled" cases.

One more thing , whoever the whistle blower, this person or persons are Very close to Carlos. This is personal jealousy and for personal gain without thinking of the good

Japanese people who had tried very hard to create a good working world.

I like to Quote, Mr Lee kwan Yew, be the person or country that can say NO in front of the person themselves not behind them. This is this is call bravery.

If these whistle were in Carlos position, at 64 years old, How bitter that could be.

Such sad Japanese bad people.These are not heros, this or these

are......................................People who want publicity at the expense of other good Japanese people.

kwattNov. 24  02:04 pm JST

No worry about whistle-blowers as long as you are not doing any wrongdoings. He should have been very honest about public and private money. He should not have understated his income and not used company's fund personally as he got big salary every month and he is already very rich man. Too greedy about money seems to ruin his career.

Couldn't have said it better Kwatt. He got really sloppy. If you are going to "steal" money from the tax authorities, which is what he was DOING, be more clever about it and make sure you are in another country in case things go south, and then have a back up plan in case they try to extradite you.

vinarius@pm.catv.ne.jpNov. 24  11:22 pm JST

One more thing , whoever the whistle blower, this person or persons are Very close to Carlos. This is personal jealousy and for personal gain without thinking of the good

Couldn't disagree more Vinarius, Chosen was under reporting income, he knew this was wrong, he was stealing from the nation, it was HE before others, typical oligarch. No, more whistle blowers = less corruption, more transparency, more tax revenue. Period.

Jenny Corbett, a researcher at the Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies, said "it's unusual because the culture of whistleblowing isn't very well established in Japan".

This, she said, may "suggest there's some kind of internal tensions or struggle for power within the company".

Ms. Corbett doesn't come out and say it directly, but she knows what's going here. This was a corporate coup at Nissan, plain and simple. Let's not let them use the words "whistleblower" to give it a veneer of respectability, nor let this distract from actual cases of legitimate whistleblowing.