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On a spring day in 2011, Carlos Gohan put on a white hard hat with Nissan in red letters. He

was at the company factory at Ywaki in Japan. And he pushed a button to start up a machine

that makes engines for luxury sedans. In his years of running car companies and

tire companies, Gohan has walked many a factory floor. But this tour was different. Ywaki is

in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. It's about 50 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi

nuclear power plant. In two months earlier, on March 11, 2011, the same earthquake and tsunami

that caused a nuclear crisis at that plant damaged this facility in Ywaki as well. Gohan had

visited this Nissan plant on March 30, nearly three weeks after the disaster. Now he was back again

in May. I mean, the first time I came here, there were barely anybody in the plant. As you remember,

there were a lot of fear about the radiation coming out of the Fukushima plant. I mean, the ground

was completely torn. We had pipes hanging from the roof. There are shutters everywhere. There

was no light. There was no water. There was no fuel. And today, standing in the plant, as you know,

the light is back. There's no problem of water. They are at 100 percent capacity restored.

After the tour, Gohan presented a reconstruction award to the plant manager.

And he told the line workers that they are a model of Japanese resilience. Ywaki plant became

Nissan symbol of swift recovery, a resolute approach in front of adversity. And I would say,

in a certain way, became a symbol of what Japan, our Japan has been.

You would think that after bringing a Nissan out of a crisis once before, leading a rescue that

restored a bit of the national psyche, that Carlos Gone was just the leader to handle another

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