Introduction: Tokyo's Gentrification in Context

This is the first special issue written in English in any academic journal that features the gentrification of Tokyo Takashi Machimura, who is no doubt the most famous of Japanese urban sociologists and now is the president of the Japan Sociological Association, has coined another expression - "gentrification without gentry" - as the answer to "why weren't the "Jiage" phenomena described as "gentrification"?" While these discussions deepened over time, the definition of gentrification was enlarged to include rural and suburban areas, and even was applied to tourism, retail and wilderness gentrification (Lees and Phillips, 2018) [Extracted from the article] Copyright of International Journal of Japanese Sociology is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use This abstract may be abridged No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract (Copyright applies to all Abstracts )