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Where Did It All Go Right? - Inward Investment into the Japanese Car Industry

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Prof Philip Cowley presents a three-part series examining initially controversial political policies which were later judged by most people to have been a success. The Conservative government's wooing of Japanese car makers to invest in Britain in the early 1980s. Japanese investment was vigorously opposed at the time, but brought lots of jobs and made a valuable contribution to our economy.