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告密者：Olympus前執行長捨命揭露20年假帳的故事
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It's a corrupt giant Japanese company. That's why Japan had a lost 20 years. Plutocrcy is the answer of all the enigma about Japan . As Van Wolferen,
Karel said in "The Enigma of Japanese Power " :
「Japanese power is described as being held by a loose group of unaccountable elites
who operate behind the scenes. Because this power is loosely held,
those who wield it escape responsibility for the consequences when
things go wrong as there is no one who can be held accountable.」en.wikipedia
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博客來 告密者：Olympus前執行長捨命揭露20年假帳的故事
“It was no comfort to know that I was making history, for the
forced removal of a company president is almost unheard of in Japan. I
rose quietly, left the room, and holding my head high, walked back to my
office. My main goal was to escape as quickly as possible. The board
had seemed scared—why else would they have acted the way they did. But
just what were they scared of?”
When Michael
Woodford was made president of Olympus—the company to which he had
dedicated thirty years of his career—he became the first Westerner ever
to climb the ranks of one of Japan’s corporate giants. Some wondered at
the appointment—how could a gaijin who didn’t even speak
Japanese understand how to run a Japanese company? But within months
Woodford had gained the confidence of most of his colleagues and
shareholders. Unfortunately, soon after, his dream job turned into a
nightmare.
The trouble began when Woodford learned
about a series of bizarre mergers and aquisitions deals totaling $1.7
billion—ascandal that threatened to bring down the entire company if
exposed. He turned to his fellow executives— including the chairman who
had promoted him Tsuyoshi Kikukawa—for answers. But instead of being
heralded as a hero for trying to save the company, Woodford was met with
vague responses and hostility—a clear sign of a cover up. Undeterred,
he demanded to be made CEO so he could have more leverage with his board
and continue to search for the truth. Then, just weeks after being
granted the top title, he was fired in a boardroom coup that shocked
Japan and the business world at large. Worried his former bosses might
try to silence him, Woodford immediately fled the country in fear of his
life and went straight to the press—making him the first CEO of a
global multinational to blow the whistle on his own company.
