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4.1. Indication of globalization and gentrification in Japanese shopping streets The activities of Japanese shopping street unions tend to promote the cities. When the shopping street union’s activities expand local culture and promote the city, the local community can undergo globalization and gentrification. Shopping street unions of not only famous streets but also non‐famous streets choosing tourism strategy are gradually increasing. Generally speaking, these shopping street unions try to form things that can symbolize the city and try to maintain it. Shopping street unions working hard try to create symbols of the city such as historic landmarks, townscape expressing Japanese nostalgia, new festivals, holy place” about cartoons or animation background of the cartoons or animation , B class gourmet, and Yuru‐chara” original local cartoon‐character costume . Japanese people who get tired of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto already search and walk around the niche places. Foreigners start following this gradually. Therefore, there is an indication of globalization from tourism. 4.2. Conclusion n Japan, promoting cities via shopping street unions is a key to the future development of shopping streets. Will declining shopping streets be included in residential areas and business districts, leading to their redevelopment, or will they be converted into ghost towns? Shopping street unions are increasingly striving toward promoting the city through methods such as social movements. n the case of tourism strategy, do hard‐working shopping street unions involve or resist gentrification? The answer to this depends on the thought of promoting cities. References Arata, Masafumi. . Ryo‐taisen‐kanki Globalization ni okeru Syotengai no Keisei Forming Shopping Street in Globalization between World War and World War . n Endo, Kaoru Ed. . Globalization to Toshi‐henyou Globalization and Urban Transformation , p. ‐ . Sekaishisousha, Kyoto, Japan. [in Japanese] Arata, Masafumi. . Syotengai wa Naze orobirunoka Why Shopping Street Disappear? , Kobunsha, Tokyo, Japan. [in Japanese] Chiba City Shopping Street Union. . Shopping Street Unions in Chiba City, Chiba, Japan. http:www.chiba‐shopstreet.commenber.html Last Accessed October . shihara, Takemasa Nishimura, Sachio Eds. . . Machizukuri wo Manabu learning the Town Planning , Yuhikaku, Tokyo, Japan. [in Japanese] to, Masakazu. . Machizukuri‐shiko no Syotengai‐ron ni taisuru Chiiki‐syakaigaku‐teki Approach no outo: Syotengai no Syakai‐teki‐kinou ni Chakumoku shite Way of Regional and Community Studies to Shopping Street Studies of Town Planning ntention: Focusing on Social Functions in Shopping Street . n Yonemura, Chiyo Ed. . Social Bonding in Fluid Societies, p. ‐ . RESEARC PROJECT REPORTS, No. . Chiba University Graduate School of umanities and Social Sciences, Chiba, Japan. [in Japanese] Nakazawa, Takao. . Kawaru Syotengai Changing Shopping Streets , wanamisyoten, Tokyo, Japan. [in Japanese] Tamano, Kazushi. . Tokyo no Local Community Local Community in Tokyo , Tokyodaigakusyuppankai, Tokyo, Japan. [in Japanese]