As the second anniversary of Carlos Ghosn's arrest in Tokyo approached, the legal case against the former Nissan chief and colleague Greg Kelly got hotter last week.

The prosecution in the criminal trial of former Nissan exec Greg Kelly claims Nissan managers resorted to paper companies, dummy accounts and decoy bonuses to others just to conceal the size of their boss' compensation package.

A witness in the Tokyo criminal trial against former Nissan HR executive Greg Kelly says he was tasked with finding ways to conceal millions in CEO pay.

Toshiaki Ohnuma , who managed Nissan’s secretariat overseeing executive compensation, is one of at least two employees who took a plea bargain to escape prosecution in exchange for testifying against Greg Kelly and Carlos Ghosn.

The biennial event, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2021, may have to be reimagined or possibly brought online, said Akio Toyoda, who serves as chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.

Former Nissan director Greg Kelly's trial in Tokyo is also casting a searing light on Carlos Ghosn, Nissan and business in Japan.

Greg Kelly, the former Nissan executive accused of helping Carlos Ghosn hide tens of millions of dollars in deferred compensation, said his actions revolved around legal ways to keep Ghosn from jumping to a competitor.

Japan can't legally extradite Carlos Ghosn from Lebanon, but now the two nations are talking.

Charges against Greg Kelly, the former aide to ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, do not constitute a crime, a former Japanese prosecutor says. He added that Ghosn probably would have been cleared on at least one charge.

Mazda is considering how and when to bring the ultra-efficient, high-torque mild-hybrid powerplant to its biggest market. The automaker still wonders whether it can satisfy U.S. buyers who prefer larger engines.

Attorney Junichiro Hironaka told reporters that he was holding his client's passports under the conditions of his bail and would never secretly hand them over.

The Japanese brake supplier is closing some U.S. plants. A cautionary tale about the dangers of diving too deep into one market.

The open-cockpit two-seater is a mixture of buggy and SUV, designed with no top or doors.

The Fit's November launch in Japan was delayed because Honda changed specifications on the car's electric parking brake. Honda decided to switch to a disc-type parking brake in all Fit models because it was unable to secure a sufficient supply of drum-type brakes.

Mitsubishi Motors unveiled a small, plug-in hybrid electric crossover concept at the Tokyo Motor Show, but the company stopped short of saying how close to production the vehicle may be.