The editors of the New York Times express outrage:
Until last Nov. 19, Carlos Ghosn was the stuff of legend — a citizen of Brazil, Lebanon and France who created a global car-making empire uniting Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault, and who regularly appeared on television and in glossy magazines. Since Nov. 19, Mr. Ghosn has been locked up in a small cell in a Tokyo detention center with a toilet in the corner, endlessly grilled by prosecutors without the right to have his lawyer present. Whatever Mr. Ghosn did or failed to do, this is not how justice is supposed to work.
Basically, their gripe is that Mr. Ghosn is not being treated according to U. S. law. Japan is not the United States, U. S. law is irrelevant there, and, in what must come as a bolt from the blue to the editors, there are no universal standards of law or justice. As long as Mr. Ghosn is being treated as prescribed and allowed by Japanese law, justice is being served. If you don’t like Japanese justice, don’t go to Japan.
Other countries are other countries. They do things differently there. The world is not Disneyland. There really are differences among countries that extend far beyond national dress and cuisine.
Notice that it takes an injustice against a VIP for the NYT to get interested in Japan’s racist criminal justice system.
One of the things that drives me to distraction is inexplicable xenophilia. I can tolerate other people’s systems because they’re entitled to their own systems. I don’t love them but I can tolerate them.