Spatial Concentration of Korean Businesses and Local Revitalization in the Okubo District, Shinjuku, Tokyo:

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  • 東京都新宿区大久保地区における韓国系ビジネスの集積と地域活性化
  • 東京都新宿区大久保地区における韓国系ビジネスの集積と地域活性化 : 地域資源としてのエスニシティと大都市の「街」の再編
  • トウキョウト シンジュクク オオクボ チク ニ オケル カンコクケイ ビジネス ノ シュウセキ ト チイキ カッセイカ : チイキ シゲン ト シテ ノ エスニシティ ト ダイトシ ノ 「 マチ 」 ノ サイヘン
  • Ethnicity as a Local Resource Reorganizing Socio-economic Structures within a ‘Town’ in Metropolitan Cities
  • ―地域資源としてのエスニシティと大都市の「街」の再編―

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<p>    This study attempted to clarify the changing relationship between ethnic community and host community in an ethnic enclave to examine the role of ethnic businesses in promoting Koreatown as a tourist spot in the case of Korean businesses in the Okubo district, Shinjuku, Tokyo. <BR>    This research pointed out that a common consciousness was likely to be confirmed within the economic sector of the host society whose members profit from ethnic businesses in the form of rental income and a rise in property values due to tenant demand for commercial properties. Local-based economic and social activity of ethnic businesses plays an important role in influencing a host society to change its multicultural ideology. Especially important were those ethnic entrepreneurs who made efforts to build an amicable relationship with the local host society; who mobilized abundant human resources and developed diversified management from the early stages of their businesses in both ethnic and non-ethnic markets; and whose economic activities were embedded in the Okubo district in that they intensively located branch stores there and acquired real estate within the district. Also important were the ethnic entrepreneurs who played a role as bridges between ethnic and host communities by taking responsibility for and representing their own ethnic groups and who had a strong will to settle in Japan supported by their stable socioeconomic status due to their economic assimilation. To conclude, it might be said that the difference in the degree of local embeddedness of an ethnic business affected the relationship between the ethnic businesses and the local host society.</p>

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