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World Service,05 Oct 2019,53 mins

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Japan's big challenges: An ageing society, slow economic growth, the role of women, a declining population. As Japan hosts the Rugby World Cup, an audience and panel in Tokyo open up about some of the major issues the country is facing. The panel: Senator Rui Matsukawa: Liberal Democrat Party Senator Hiroe Makiyama: Constitutional Democratic Party Professor Sayuri Shirai: Keio University Roland Kelts: Author of Japanamerica BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council. (Photo: Tokyo with Mount Fuji in the background, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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