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World Service,01 Jun 2002,27 mins

What happened to the Japanese dream?

Pick of the World

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A pick of this week's broadcasts on the BBC World Service. In Japan a look at how the Osaka Expo in 1970 was heralded as a showcase for the country, however its dreams have never been realised. Also, the Muslim women who let their hair down in private, how Britain's only woman demolition engineer is treated by the men at work, the dangers faced by street children in Dhaka and the Moldovan children abandoned by their job-seeking parents.

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