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Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida, left, and Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe, center, and Takao Kato CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, right, attend a joint news conference Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Nissan, Honda announce plans to merge, creating world’s No. 3 automaker

By Mari Yamaguch and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020 file photo, former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn holds a press conference at the Maronite Christian Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, north of Beirut, Lebanon. In an opinion published Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, a panel of human rights experts working with the United Nations says former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was wrongly detained in Japan in late 2018 and has urged “compensation” and “other reparations” for him from the Japanese government. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, file)

Rights experts: Japan’s handling of Carlos Ghosn was wrong

By JAMEY KEATEN and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 20, 2017, file photo, visitors walk past the Renault stand during the Auto Shanghai 2017 show in Shanghai, China. Renault SA said Tuesday, April 14, 2020, it will shut down its main China business and focus on electric and commercial vehicles. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Renault closing main China business, will focus on electrics

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Scandal-hit Nissan sinks into losses as sales plummet

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

A motorbike passes the house of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman fled Japan this week while awaiting trial on financial misconduct charges and appeared in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ghosn lawyer outraged by Japan’s justice system and escape

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this March 6, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn travels in a car, in Tokyo, after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in bail once an appeal by prosecutors against his release was rejected. On Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, Japanese prosecutors raided the Tokyo home of Ghosn, who skipped bail while awaiting trial on financial misconduct allegations, and left for Lebanon. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko. File)

Lebanon receives Interpol wanted notice for Carlos Ghosn, Nissan ex-chair

By Bassem Mroue and Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

In this May 11, 2012, file photo, then Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo. A close friend says Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, that Ghosn, who is awaiting trial in Japan, has arrived in Beirut. It was not clear how Ghosn, who is of Lebanese origins, left Japan where he is under surveillance and is expected to face trial in April 2020. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Turkey detains 7 in probe into Ghosn fleeing bail in Japan

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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2019, file photo, private security guards stand outside of the home of former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn in Beirut, Lebanon. By jumping bail, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who had long insisted on his innocence, has now committed a clear crime and can never return to Japan without going to jail. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

By jumping bail, fugitive Ghosn burns bridges to Japan

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Nissan Motor Co. Executive Vice President Hideyuki Sakamoto speaks during a press conference at the company's headquarter Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Nissan is investing 33 billion yen ($303 million) in its flagship auto plant in Japan's Tochigi prefecture in a first rollout of a production system geared toward electric vehicles. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Nissan invests in production to prepare for electric age

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - This March, 2019, file photo shows former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, right, and his wife Carole in Tokyo. Ghosn, awaiting trial in Japan on financial misconduct charges, has received permission from a Tokyo court to talk for one hour in a video call with his wife. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan court allows Nissan ex-chair Ghosn to talk with wife

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Scandal-hit Nissan’s profits crash amid lower global sales

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2017, file photo, former Nissan Motor chairman Carlos Ghosn attends a media conference outside Paris, France. Lawyers for Ghosn, who is awaiting trial in Japan, asked the Tokyo District Court on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019 to dismiss all charges filed against him in his financial misconduct case. The papers his lawyers filed in the court last week allege prosecutorial misconduct will prevent Ghosn from having a fair trial. The fillings allege unlawful collusion between the prosecutors, government officials and executives at Nissan Motor Co. drummed up allegations of wrongdoing to remove him as chairman. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Nissan ex-chairman Ghosn’s lawyers want charges dismissed

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

A woman walks past a sign of Mitsubishi Motors at its headquarter in Tokyo Friday, June 21, 2019. Mitsubishi Motors Corp. shareholders approved on Friday the ouster of Carlos Ghosn, who was pivotal in the Japanese automaker's three-way partnership with Nissan and Renault until he was arrested on financial misconduct charges last year. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Mitsubishi Motors shareholders approve ouster of Ghosn

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire listens to a question during a press conference at the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Fukuoka Sunday, June 9, 2019. (Toshifumi Kitamura/Pool Photo via AP)

France’s Le Maire hopes to fortify Renault-Nissan alliance

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and HARUKA NUGA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Renault CEO Thierry Bollore addresses the media after the presentation of the company's 2018 full year results in Boulogne Billancourt, outside Paris. Nissan says it is proposing adding Renault’s chief executive, Thierry Bollore, to its board, as well as several outsiders, to strengthen its governance following the arrest of its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn. The Japanese automaker’s proposals announced Friday, May 17, 2019 will be put to a shareholder vote at a meeting set for June. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Nissan proposing more board members, with Renault’s Bollore

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 6, 2019, file photo, former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn rides in a car from a building in Tokyo, after posting 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in bail once an appeal by prosecutors against his release was rejected. Nissan is seeing sales and profits tumble, as its once revered former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, awaits trial on charges of financial misconduct. The Japanese automaker says it is beefing up corporate governance and sticking with its alliance with French partner Renault SA. (Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP)

Questions loom for Nissan with former chairman Ghosn gone

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this May 12, 2016, photo, then Nissan Motor Co. President and CEO Carlos Ghosn speaks during a press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japan's top court rejected an appeal by former Nissan Chairman Ghosn's lawyers against his extended detention after his fourth arrest on allegations of financial misconduct. The decision Wednesday, April 17, 2019 conveyed to foreign media on Thursday, April 18, turns down the appeal by Ghosn's lawyers against an extension of his detention through April 22 that was approved Monday by the Tokyo District Court. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Nissan ex-chair Ghosn appeal on extended detention rejected

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 6, 2019 file photo, Carole Ghosn, wife of Nissan's former Chairman Carlos Ghosn, walks to a car waiting at the entrance of Tokyo Detention Center, where her husband is detained in Tokyo. The wife of Carlos Ghosn, the former chairman of Nissan and Renault, said Wednesday, April 17 she was worried whether her husband, detained in Japan on financial misconduct allegations, will get a fair trial, and she expressed outrage over a justice system that dragged him back into custody. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Nissan ex-chair Ghosn’s wife fears his trial may be unfair

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this image made from video released by Carlos Ghosn via his lawyer on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, former Nissan chairman Ghosn speaks on camera in Tokyo. Japan's Supreme Court turned down an appeal by the lawyers for Ghosn to end his detention following his arrest for the fourth time on financial misconduct allegations. The court decision came Friday, and was relayed to foreign media Monday, April 15, 2019. (Carlos Ghosn via AP)

Nissan ex-chair Ghosn’s appeal on detention turned down

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 3, 2019, file photo, former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, center, leaves his lawyer's office in Tokyo. Tokyo prosecutors arrested Ghosn on Thursday, April 4, 2019 for a fourth time on fresh allegations that cut short his brief time outside detention. (Sadayuki Goto/Kyodo News via AP, File)

Lawyer for Nissan’s ex-chair Ghosn clarifies bail conditions

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press