Japan Scandal Inc.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yo-yo Ghosn goes in and out.

This time, the bail is set to only 500 Megayen, when before it was 900. Wonder, why

[matsuki]

Yo-yo Ghosn goes in and out.

This time, the bail is set to only 500 Megayen, when before it was 900. Wonder, why

Unless the original bail money was returned to him, this sounds like in addition??

His defense team, on the other hand, was outraged by the arrest, in particular the prosecutors’ dawn raid in which they confiscated documents that Ghosn was preparing for his upcoming trial and his wife’s personal items including her cell phone and passport.

Rearresting an individual who has been released on bail is a highly unusual move, legal experts interviewed by The Japan Times said.

This sounds like the prosecutors forcing Ghosn's defense to show their cards to them before playing them. His wife hasn't been charged with anything and even the police have stated she was cooperative so taking her passport just adds to the bizarre bullshit. At this point, guilty or not, this shitshow is a pretty obvious warning that the Japan's "justice system" is like soo many things here, a shiny veneer over a bunch of garbage underneath. I wouldn't blame him or one of the governments he's a citizen of for getting him out of Japan. It's past the point where we can say he is not getting a fair trial.

[Grumpy Gramps]

OTOH it would put the government, which would get him out, in a shady light. Politics getting in the way of a judicial process is banana republic style.

OTOOH if the USA could cold-bloodedly kill heads of states like Saddam Hussein or Gaddhafi, just because they thought that they were assholes; and they got away with it without any problem, then why shouldn't Japan be entitled to do the same? New world order and all that jazz.

[matsuki]

OTOH it would put the government, which would get him out, in a shady light. Politics getting in the way of a judicial process is banana republic style.

That assumes this can actually be called a process. Too many "highly unusual" moves here when held up to even local judicial precedents that say it's already about politics. Snaggin his wife's passport without an arrest or any charges accomplishes nothing but (assuming they had no knowledge of her other passport) effectively imprisoning her in Japan...maybe a nod and wink threat to Ghosn? This is slave labor trafficker level shit.

Realistically, it's probably something for the Hague to address. For all we know, he is guilty as sin....but what we're seeing take place here looks more and more like they're fishing with dynamite for something to nail him on because the previous charges are not warranted or won't stick. Remember, these are the same prosecutors making charges well past the statue of limitations with an argument that said statute only applies to time in Japan. They're reaching...this is not how justice is served...

OTOOH if the USA could cold-bloodedly kill heads of states like Saddam Hussein or Gaddhafi, just because they thought that they were assholes; and they got away with it without any problem, then why shouldn't Japan be entitled to do the same? New world order and all that jazz.

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[Grumpy Gramps]

Haha, not much world police, methinks. When Putin walked into Crimea and said "you're now mine, baby", they reacted more like crybabies. They only do what they do to opponents, whom they know are too weak to pay back in the same currency. Cowards.

[Grumpy Gramps]

First came a worldwide recall for air bags. Now, millions of Takata seat belts may also be faulty.

Millions of vehicles could face recall due to faulty seat belts using parts provided by Takata, the same Japanese supplier responsible for the recall of tens of millions of vehicles due to defective air bag inflators blamed for hundreds of injuries and dozens of deaths.

Joyson Safety Systems, the Chinese-owned automotive supplier that took over the remains of Takata after it went bankrupt in 2017, said it is pouring over 20 years of testing data for seat belt webbing and has found inaccuracies suggesting the numbers might have been altered intentionally.

Japanese regulators have begun their own probe and have reportedly advised automakers to prepare for recalls. If the safety of the belts cannot be verified, the impact could be substantial. Takata provided webbing for as much as 40 percent of Japanese auto production and 30 percent of the vehicles produced worldwide.

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Yikes!

[matsuki]

The hits keep coming...is this the Japanese version of work smarter, not harder? The "a Japanese would never lie" sniff test is still as strong as ever.

[wagyl]

At least the seatbelts are pretty easily retrofitted. As a person who has in the past enjoyed keeping elderly machinery on the road, it makes me weep to see things like the entire fleet of Toyota Starlets (not that they are particularly worthy cars to preserve) being scrapped because nobody is going to develop a replacement for the rapidly decaying and unstable explosives airbag devices in them. In some countries, they are doing this by refusing to renew registration of certain makes, models and years of production.

In truth, the mandatory explosives in modern cars means that none of them will have long lives. Who is going to trust an explosive device which has had years of intense heat and humidity in a car body, thirty years down the track? You won't be able to change the heater settings anyway because the touch screen will have failed 15 years ago.

[matsuki]

At least the seatbelts are pretty easily retrofitted. As a person who has in the past enjoyed keeping elderly machinery on the road, it makes me weep to see things like the entire fleet of Toyota Starlets (not that they are particularly worthy cars to preserve) being scrapped because nobody is going to develop a replacement for the rapidly decaying and unstable explosives airbag devices in them. In some countries, they are doing this by refusing to renew registration of certain makes, models and years of production.

In truth, the mandatory explosives in modern cars means that none of them will have long lives. Who is going to trust an explosive device which has had years of intense heat and humidity in a car body, thirty years down the track? You won't be able to change the heater settings anyway because the touch screen will have failed 15 years ago.

As someone who has changed both on multiple vehicles, honestly the airbag is much easier and takes less time to swap out. That being said, the cost is probably 5-10X as much as seat belts.

Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.

Would a regular shaken guy spot the difference? (asking for a friend, of course)

[Coligny]

Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.

Would a regular shaken guy spot the difference? (asking for a friend, of course)

The answer is NO.

Meatball passed his summer shaken with 0 airbag plugged and resistors instead. No error on the dash or obd logs. Goooood to go... and seeing how my daily offroading bust filament bulbs on a weekly basis I’m not plugging that stuff back anytime soon.

[matsuki]

Track vehicles usually have the airbags removed and a resistor (or something) put in place so the lack of airbags doesn't throw error codes on the vehicle's computer.

Would a regular shaken guy spot the difference? (asking for a friend, of course)

As Coligny said, No. Actually checking the vehicle for an installed airbag is probably not on the flowchart either.

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