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A six-month-long Japanese film festival across seven Indian cities holds riches for cinephiles

With reference to Swaraj Baggonkar's front-page report, "Pay cut for five Suzuki directors as a result of mileage scandal" (June 9), the Japanese are known for their moral and ethical standards. Their forthright approach in fixing responsibility and penalising the guilty with regard to the scandal in question is impressive. They don't look for junior scapegoats, as we, in India, often do; instead, they go for the top people. No one can beat them in accepting mistakes and publicly apologising for the same.The West handles such matters differently. German car maker Volkswagen committed the grave offence of cheating on emission tests. None of the people in the top management team was known to have taken pay cuts. Citi Bank made billions from the Libor scandal. When the bank was caught, it coughed up a hefty fine, but as far as I can remember there were no job or pay cuts. For both companies, the cost-benefit analysis seemed to go in their favour.Then there was the WikiLeaks episode and th