686), Wood and Gilbert (2005) further pointed out that there are a lot of visible and accessible places exist in Toronto that allow people from different countries communicate and mix with each other. In consequence, their difference can be discussed, confirmed, or debated. Based on these criteria, I do not think Tokyo is a typical multicultural city. This is not mean that people cannot consider Tokyo as a multicultural city, but rather it is different from the multicultural cities according to the traditional assumptions.
First of all, the ethnic composition of Tokyo's population is simplex. 98% of the total residents are Japanese, the foreign population (which including Korean, Chinese, Brazilian, American, Southeast Asian, British and Peruvian) only occupied 2% in the city ("Tokyo," 2000). On the basis of the book review by Rodriguez (2013), Sugimoto illustrated how ethnically minorities "have been statistically, politically, and culturally discriminated against" (p.177). He analyzed these ethnic group separately, focus on their lack of authorized job opportunities and unequal treatment compare to the dominant groups. For example, group of "foreign workers" or "migrant workers" which refers to people migrated to Tokyo in 1980s economy booming period and engaged in unskilled jobs. Females usually work in sex industries, while males are inclined to work in "the low-wage 3Ds: dirty, difficult, and dangerous jobs (p.155). Most of them are come from underdeveloped countries, and cannot speak Japanese at first (Yamashiro, 2013). People can compare these facts in Tokyo with a classical multicultural city-Toronto, there are many strategies in Toronto called "diversity management" include support the board policies of multicultural schools and assist the business of minority groups (Goonewardena & Kipfer, 2005, p.671). However, in the current Japanese society, the minorities still encounter many obstacles and the government do not formulate effective policies that try to solve these problems.
"Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city-regions, or technopoles, all plugged into the same international circuit."... Amazingly enough, Tokyo, for example, has more telephones than the whole continent of Africa. ... In our big cities, we can find almost any kind of multicultural restaurant; examples like this define the global village. ...
The capital of Japan is Tokyo and is found also on Honshu island. ... The political capital of Thailand is Bangkok, which, also is the countries largest city. ... January temperatures in Tokyo are 4.7 degrees Celsius, July 25.2 degrees Celsius, and average annual rainfall 1,460 mm. ... Japan has many large industrialized cities, which are very important. Tokyo which is the capital (pop.8,022,000) is the economic centre of the country. ...