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World Service,31 May 2002,28 mins

Japan - The Ruins of the Future

At The Edge of Asia

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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.

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