Okubo - Home to Tokyo's Korean Community (Tokyo)

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The area around Shin-Okubo Station is home to many Korean businesses and restaurants, and is known locally in Japanese as 'コリアンタウン', a direct phonetic transliteration of the English 'Korean Town'. Tokyo's Korean population numbers approximately 80,000, making it the second largest population of Koreans in Japan, after Osaka, at 90,000. Unlike other 'Koreatowns' in Japan, this area developed after World War II, and is dominated by "new-comers" - recent immigrants from South Korea who have retained their ethnic and cultural identity, as can be seen from the ubiquitous signs written in hangul.

This colourful, lively district is also home to immigrants from China and Taiwan and from South East Asia.
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Coordinates:   35°41'53"N   139°42'9"E

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  • Zone on the map must be corrected to include more north area, I mean the area along Okubo-Dori street. According my impression to live here, almost 60% people have Korea origin, but we should not foreget the existence of many Thailand, Phillipines, and other East West Asian people, as well as Russian, and Ukranian ladies mostly for night business.
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