this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. home of nintendo and the bullet train, japan was once a pioneer in innovation, but then fresh global competition emerged. i m heading home to meet the next generation of entrepreneurs across a country where starting your own business wasn t always seen as an ideal career choice. for many areas, start ups have kind of disadvantages injapan, but from now it ll be changed. the government is putting its weight behind this and has tapped into its huge pension fund, worth $1.5 trillion, hoping to increase the number of starters by ten fold over the next five years. they want to encourage a spirit of enterprise in every corner of the land. i ve come to tokushima. it s a bit of a backwater and hasn t got a reputation of being a thriving area. but it has been trying to reinvent itself as a place for start ups, and in recent years a local company has h
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