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Since news emerged on New Year’s Eve that fallen auto titan Carlos Ghosn skipped bail and fled the country, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been camped out in a luxury Tokyo hotel, sharing meals with family, hitting the gym and even playing golf.

TOKYO — Nissan’s new chief executive Makoto Uchida reaffirmed Dec. 2 the importance of the Japanese automaker’s alliance with France’s Renault, as it strives to puts its financial scandals behind it.

Nissan Motor Co. is planning its first bond sale since scandals involving its ex-Chairman Carlos Ghosn and former CEO Hiroto Saikawa, according to people familiar with the matter.

TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan reported Nov. 12 that its July-September profit tumbled to half of what it earned the year before as sales and brand power crumbled following the arrest of its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn.

Nissan Motor Co. unveiled the responsibilities of its new top managers, appointing a new chief financial officer and making other executive moves as the Japanese automaker seeks to turn a new page almost a year since the arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

TOKYO — The lawyers of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who is awaiting trial in Japan, said Oct. 24 they have requested that financial misconduct charges against him be dismissed.

TOKYO — The Tokyo Motor Show opens this week with plenty of futuristic technologies but absent one of the auto industry’s hugest influencers: Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn.

TOKYO — Nissan has tapped the head of its China business, Makoto Uchida, as its new president and CEO to help lead a recovery from the leadership crisis and sinking profitability that followed the arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn last year.

Nissan Motor Co. and Carlos Ghosn will pay a combined $16 million to settle a U.S. regulator’s allegations that they failed to disclose more than $140 million in compensation that the automaker’s ex-chairman was slated to receive in retirement.

DETROIT — The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating complaints that the automatic emergency braking on the Nissan Rogue can turn on for no apparent reason.