"This is not about equality, this is about good governance and good business, " he added.

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True, Japan is not exactly a byword for good corporate governance either, but the legal system there is decidedly more robust.

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This, of course, is not how one would expect a politician dedicated to the sanctity of the rule of law and good governance to behave.

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