Gun Control - Japan, My Perfect Country Boxset
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Futons and martial arts-trained police play a part in Japan's low gun crime. Just one person was killed with a gun in 2015 – a mob crime boss – and in the same year, just six shots were fired by the nation's law enforcers.
A pacifist culture and stringent tests, inspections and penalties also contribute to the absence of gun violence.
Find more innovative ideas from the first series go to www.bbcworldservice.com/perfectcountry
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome I'm Fee Glover and you're listening to My Perfect Country on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | What would you pop in yours? |
| 0:08.0 | In My Perfect Country. My Perfect Country. |
| 0:12.0 | My Perfect Country. My perfect country. My perfect country would have a great low energy public transport system. |
| 0:18.0 | Everybody would have an apple tree. |
| 0:21.0 | It means that everybody has a little bit of land. |
| 0:25.0 | Good governance, good leaders and good decisions. |
| 0:28.0 | There are no stigma. A small gap between the richest and the poorest. |
| 0:31.0 | Food, peace, love, safety and no weaponry. |
| 0:39.2 | No weapons you say. |
| 0:40.2 | Well that's key to this week's episode. |
| 0:42.7 | If you're new to this program, it's ever so simple, |
| 0:44.9 | how would a country look if you built it from scratch |
| 0:47.3 | using only parts of the world that actually work? |
| 0:50.0 | Now, not everything makes it into our self-build nation, some things don't get past our own exacting quality control which is overseen by topical experts every week and ultimately by Professor Henrietta Moore from the Institute for Global Prosperity. |
| 1:04.4 | Martha Lane Fox is an essential part of our quality control too, |
| 1:07.9 | internet entrepreneur and businesswoman. |
| 1:10.1 | We should make it clear that it's not just us sitting here in huge white leather swivelled chairs looking out from our pent-a-studio |
| 1:16.7 | pointing at parts of the world and saying we'll have that. This is a program that loves to hear from you. |
| 1:22.2 | Yes, the Bermuda roof and its water saving policy |
| 1:25.0 | was a suggestion from a listener who lives there, |
| 1:27.0 | and we've also been pointed in the direction of Finland's literacy rates |
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