Renault has faced no such meddling: Nissan's big shareholders, such as Yamaichi Securities, IndustrialBankofJapan and Fuji Bank, were either bust or in too much of a mess to interfere.
Most remarkably, Mikitani, a graduate of Hitotsubashi University whose first job was with IndustrialBankofJapan (now Mizuho Bank) that sent him to Harvard for an MBA in 1993, has been driving his company to realize his global business vision.