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Contrasts: 2,500 Characters in Search of an Author

on BBC One London

A series of music and arts features.

No scoops... no star journalists... and no typewriters (there are too many characters in the Japanese language)... the Japanese press operate in ways quite strange to us. They reflect past pains and current preoccupations. How free are they to write what they think? One of Japan's largest daily papers provides some answers to the Japanese enigma.

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Producer:
Tristram Powell

BBC One London

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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