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Japan - The Ruins of the Future
How Japan's economic boom in the 70s/80s has not born fruit for all its inhabitants
Japan is perceived as being at the forefront of technological innovation, but the country has struggled with huge economic debt. The show visits the industrial heartland at Osaka, proclaimed as the megacity of the future back in Expo '70 but still only half-built, and asks what happened to the Japanese dream of being a thrusting economic powerhouse.
麻豆社 World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
