{"id":12587,"date":"2020-01-01T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/japans-media-accuse-carlos-ghosn-of-cowardly-act-after-flight-to-lebanon"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T06:15:22","slug":"japans-media-accuse-carlos-ghosn-of-cowardly-act-after-flight-to-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12587","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s media accuse Carlos Ghosn of &#8216;cowardly act&#8217; after flight to Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papers unite to criticise former Nissan chairman, saying he had \u2018lost the opportunity to prove his innocence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The usually staid Japanese media has criticised Carlos Ghosn after the tycoon jumped bail and fled to Lebanon \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/dec\/31\/carlos-ghosn-escaped-japan-hiding-in-a-musical-instrument-case\">reportedly inside a musical instrument case<\/a> \u2013 to avoid what he called \u201cpolitical persecution\u201d in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning away is a cowardly act that mocks Japan\u2019s justice system,\u201d said the Yomiuri Shimbun, with Ghosn facing multiple charges of financial misconduct \u2013 all of which he denies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/01\/japans-media-accuse-carlos-ghosn-of-cowardly-act-after-flight-to-lebanon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papers unite to criticise former Nissan chairman, saying he had \u2018lost the opportunity to prove his innocence\u2019The usually staid Japanese media has criticised Carlos Ghosn after the tycoon jumped bail and fled to Lebanon \u2013 reportedly inside a musical ins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1028,88,869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-carlos-ghosn","category-japan","category-lebanon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12588,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/12588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}