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27/01/2018 GMT

Samurai and Idiots

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Film-maker Hoe Yamamoto unravels a mystifying corporate scandal.

Documentary about a mystifying corporate scandal, involving the dismissal of a Japanese company's British-born president and CEO for blowing the whistle on a huge historical fraud.

In October 2011, Olympus Corporation, a multibillion dollar Japanese optical company, dismissed its president and CEO, British-born Michael Woodford, over cultural differences in management style. Japanese media dutifully reported the dismissal with minimum coverage, another foreign CEO failing to adapt to the Japanese way. But international media reported a brewing scandal where Japanese board members of the company unanimously voted to dismiss Woodford for blowing the whistle on a 1.7 billion dollar fraud that the 93-year-old Japanese company had kept secret for more than two decades.
Film-maker Hoe Yamamoto unravels the events that led to one of the most mystifying corporate scandals in the world.

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