ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN YOKOHAMA: FROM GATEWAY PORT TO INTERNATIONAL CORE CITY

Abstract

Abstract Many Japanese cities are discovering ‘internationalisation’ as a means of solving problems associated with economic restructuring. Yokohama, Japan's second largest city, owes its very existence to Japan's need to internationalise and open up to trade in the 1850s. In the past twenty-five years or so the city has lost much of its pivotal importance as a gateway port, as new forms of contact with the rest of the world have eroded the preeminent role of ships and...