Business | Machines and machinations

What Toshiba’s travails say about Japanese capitalism

The plight of an industrial giant offers ammunition to both sides of the corporate-governance debate

|Tokyo

Editor’s note (June 25th 2021): This piece has been updated with the resignation of Nagayama Osamu, Toshiba’s chairman

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