Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is a Friends of History debating society I'm John

Bachelor of catching Debating Society. I'm John Batcher of

catching up with finding where in the world is Michael Jan. Michael underline

Jan is his Twitter address to follow his reporting. Michael is in Taiwan

but he got there via Japan, a very friendly and modern, extremely modern

culture which is to be celebrated.

Taiwan has an equally modern culture to be celebrated. These are democracies, republics,

capitalist states. They do things cleanly and it costs money. Now Michael tells me there is a village building in Japan that is entirely

curd. That means the Kurds of northern Iraq who have been allies of the U.S. for decades. The Kurds of

Northern Iraq who have their own income, they have oil wells there. The Kurds of

Northern Iraq have found their way out of Iraq all the way to Japan and the Japanese

government which is very keen on entry and exit.

You don't get into Japan by walking around some dark corner and

dropping a fence. There's only one way into Japan and that's filling out

documents. So if the Kurds are there, the Japanese, it's okay with the Japanese government.

Where is it, Michael? And is it growing this Kurdish village?

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