TOKYO -- Nissan Motor executives expressed astonishment and outrage when Honda Motor proposed "Honda Corporation" as the name for the holding company under which the two automakers were to integrate operations. But Honda's executives dismissed such concerns, noting their belief that the tie-up was not supposed to be an equal merger.
Nikkei's look into the behind-the-scenes details of negotiations between the two Japanese automakers sheds new light on how plans for this proposed historic merger collapsed after just one month.
