Tokyo as a Multicultural City

            The city of Tokyo which is evaluated as an Alpha+ world city, is an undisputed international financial center, a head-quarter of a lot of multinational corporations, and a city that rich in cultural and human capital. It contains the largest amount of residents compare to rest of cities in the world and administered by a democratic and progressive government. Through the process of globalization, the interregional interaction and networks of activities is improved. People will have a strong feeling is called "Time-Space Compression"(p.3) that shrinking of distance by means of a significant deduction of in the time taken both physically like travelling to another place, and electronically such as sending photos via cellphone (Tomlinson,1999). As a result of the connectivity of globalization, including hosting several mega-events - the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, combined with the new government policy of tourism, the residents of the city may become increasingly diverse, and they could experience multi-culture in their daily life. .
             Literally, multicultural city refers to "a place of variety in ethnicity and race" (Fincher, Iveson, Leitner, & Preston, 2014, p.3). There are three different dimensions that under the theme of multiculturalism: it is a demographic reality in cities which racial and ethnic dissimilarity exist in the population; meanwhile it is a national philosophy that the whole nation is celebrating diversity; finally, it is the framework of a range of government policies that promote the social solidarity, reduce the impact of the urban inequality between the immigrants and local people, and related to urban planning issues. (Fincher et al. ,2014). For example, Toronto as a typical multicultural city, the urban branding of the city is also related to this grand topic, it considered the diversity as the city's strength. By raising the focus of "public space" (p.