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World Service,14 Feb 2018,53 mins

Japan's Economy Grows for Eighth Quarter

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Japan's GDP rose by 0.5% in the last three months of 2017, marking the country's longest period of continued growth since the 1980s. We get analysis from Yumiko Murakami, head of OECD Japan. Projects are underway in Australia and the US for enormous battery plants, but how will they impact fossil fuel producers? We speak to Alexander Kaufman, business and environment reporter with the Huffington Post in New York. And is it a good idea for societies to think about achieving a utopia? Rutger Bregman is from the Netherlands and the author of Utopia for Realists - And How We Can Get There. (Picture: The Japanese flag. Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

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