Carlos Ghosn’s escape from central Tokyo to Beirut by private jet started with a three-hour ride on a public bullet train, according to Japanese media on Monday.
The reports, carried by Nippon Television and TV Asahi, claimed that after walking out of his rented house the former Nissan chairman boarded at about 4.30pm the bullet train at Tokyo’s Shinagawa station, a vast railway hub about 6km from where he had been under house arrest since April 2019.
If confirmed, Mr Ghosn’s use of Japan’s famous high-speed train would fill a big gap in the account of his escape. But it would raise new questions about how he was able to avoid attention riding on public transport.