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Ghosn wants Japanese successor at Nissan

Ghosn: "From time to time, you can have a foreigner. But you cannot have a foreigner all the time. You need, from time to time, to remind everybody that this is a Japanese company." (BLOOMBERG)
November 21, 2013 05:00 AM

TOKYO -- For 14 years, Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn has been the Japanese carmaker's foreign face. Now, after sidelining his Japanese No. 2 and reshuffling the company's top management, he says he wants a Japanese national to succeed him at the helm when the time comes.

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