Japan Update January 9, 2019

	Team Ghosn launches  full-court counterattack  on charges TOKYO -- Ousted Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn denied  the allegations against him in  court Tuesday, drawing battle  lines with prosecutors in an  unusually lengthy two-hour  hearing that marked his first  public appearance in weeks. With the business world  closely watching, his lawyers  had prepared thoroughly and  provided 30 pages of English  and Japanese material at a   briefing afterward -- an amount usually seen only at an actual trial.
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