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A Necessary Evil
Japan has the lowest crime rate in the developed world. Yet organised crime, controUed by the Yakuza, Japan's gangsters, operates on a bigger scale than the US Mafia, and permeates every facet of the Japanese economy.
Are they a necessary evil? How does Japan accommodate this criminal warp in the fabric of such a closely woven society?
Philip Short , BBC Tokyo correspondent, investigates the place of crime in Japan.
Producer Donald Macleod eDOCUMENTARY: page

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Philip Short
Producer:
Donald MacLeod
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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