东京--在一场严重的会计丑闻导致日本电产濒临退市后，扭转其局面的任务掌握在新任总裁兼首席执行官海田道雄的手中，他从一家集团公司晋升，加入了这家日本汽车制造商的高层。
TOKYO -- The task of turning Nidec around after a significant accounting scandal that leaves it on the brink of delisting is in the hands of new President and CEO Michio Kaida, who rose from a group company to join the Japanese motor maker's top ranks.
前首席技术官凯田被选为接替周二突然辞职的岸田光也，因为日本电产董事会要求他对欺诈造成的损失负责。该公司周四披露，截至2024财年的五年内，损失达2，880亿日元（18.2亿美元），而上财年的损失为6，321亿日元。
Kaida, previously chief technology officer, was chosen to replace Mitsuya Kishida, who abruptly resigned Tuesday as Nidec's board held him responsible for losses from the fraud. The company on Thursday disclosed 288 billion yen ($1.82 billion) in impairment losses over the five years through fiscal 2024, on top of the 632.1 billion yen in impairment losses booked for last fiscal year.
凯田是通过里德电子（Read Electronics）成立的，里德电子是一家半导体检测设备制造商，日本电产于1997年收购，后来转变为子公司。
Kaida came up through Read Electronics, a semiconductor inspection equipment maker that Nidec bought into in 1997 and later turned into a subsidiary.
2003年成为里德总裁后，凯达增加了印刷电路板设备的销售，并扩展到探针卡等产品。他走遍全球进行谈判，培养北美科技巨头作为客户，并将Read（后来更名为日本电产Advance Technology）打造成该集团最赚钱的公司之一。
After becoming Read's president in 2003, Kaida increased sales of equipment for printed circuit boards and expanded into products such as probe cards. He traveled the globe for negotiations, cultivating North American tech giants as customers, and built Read -- later renamed Nidec Advance Technology -- into one of the group's most profitable companies.
“他是一位具有非凡解决问题能力和好奇心的经理，”日本电产的一位前高管说。
"He's a manager with extraordinary problem-solving abilities and inquisitiveness," a former Nidec executive said.
凯田于2024年被任命为日本电产本身的CTO，打破集团公司之间的障碍，促进技术合作。他指导了日本电产进军航空汽车领域，该公司将其视为一个增长领域。
Kaida was tapped in 2024 as CTO of Nidec itself, where he broke down barriers between group companies to promote technical collaboration. He has guided Nidec's foray into aviation motors, which the company regards as a growth field.
他之前也曾表现出企业扭亏为盈的决心。当里德在那里担任高管期间，他的收入变得更糟时，凯达用自己的房子作为抵押，争先恐后地获得资金。“他很有勇气，”一位当时认识凯达的内部人士说道。
He also has demonstrated determination with a corporate turnaround before. When Read's earnings took a turn for the worse while he was an executive there, Kaida scrambled to secure funding, using his own home as collateral. "He's got guts," said an insider who knew Kaida at the time.
在周四的新闻发布会上，日本电产董事会成员佐久一郎表示，海田被选中“仅仅是因为他能够将日本电产转变为一家能够健康和可持续发展的制造商。“日本电产新任首席执行官海田道雄在10月1日的新闻发布会上发表讲话。凯田没有参与会计欺诈这一事实可能也是对他有利的决定性标志。
At Thursday's news conference, Nidec board member Soichiro Sakuma said Kaida was chosen "simply because he's someone who can turn Nidec around into a manufacturer that can grow in a healthy and sustainable way." New Nidec CEO Michio Kaida spoke at a news conference on Oct. 1. The fact that Kaida was not involved in the accounting fraud likely was also a decisive mark in his favor.
凯田周四表示，负责调查的第三方委员会“没有对我进行过一秒钟的质询”。他还领导了日本电产向东京证券交易所提交的改进计划和状态报告的起草过程，该交易所已将该公司列入特别警报名单，最终可能导致退市。
"I was not questioned for even a second by the third-party committee" handling the investigation, Kaida said Thursday. He also led the drafting process for the improvement plan and status report that Nidec submitted to the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which has put the company on a special alert list that eventually could result in delisting.
日本电产创始人长森茂信也尊重海田的管理技巧。一位日本电产内部人士回忆说，长森经常告诉高管向他学习。
Nidec founder Shigenobu Nagamori also respected Kaida's management skills. A Nidec insider recalled that Nagamori often told executives to learn from him.
人们担心，这种高度赞扬可能会被解读为海田与长森关系密切。调查委员会关于会计欺诈的报告指责了长森的“绝对权威”，并敦促日本电产“脱离”长森的公司。”在周四的新闻发布会上，凯田指出，日本电积先进技术是日本电积集团唯一一家在未上市后上市的公司，并表示他“非常感谢”长森让他实现了这一梦想。
Concerns exist that this high praise could be interpreted as Kaida having close ties to Nagamori. The investigative committee's report on the accounting fraud faulted Nagamori's "absolute authority" and urged Nidec to "break away from being 'Mr. Nagamori's company.'" At Thursday's news conference, Kaida noted that Nidec Advance Technology was the sole Nidec group company to go public after having been unlisted, and said he was "extremely grateful" to Nagamori for letting him achieve that dream.
根据凯田在新闻发布会上的言论，一家审计公司的一位高管质疑新任首席执行官是否真的“打算与过去决裂”。“尽管海田强调他无意回到过去，但市场参与者将关注他对改革的承诺。
An executive at an auditing firm questioned, based on Kaida's comments at the news conference, whether the new CEO really "intends to break away from the past." Though Kaida has stressed that he has no intention of going back to the past, market players will be watching his commitment to reform.
除了凯达，日本电产的董事会只有两名内部成员，这两人都是在2025年加入的，这使得日本电产缺乏熟悉整体业务的董事。海田将不得不承担经营日本电产和领导其所需改革的大部分责任。
Besides Kaida, Nidec's board has only two internal members, both of whom joined in 2025, leaving it with a dearth of directors familiar with the business as a whole. Kaida will have to bear much of the responsibility for both running Nidec and leading the reforms it needs.