Abstract
Okubo is widely known as a multinational city, the typical Korean town in Japan. But, its formation and development have the strong connection with the exclusive feature of Japanese society. Many foreigners, who reside in Japan, have experienced rejection of real estate contracts and employments. Also, Japanese government has not approved formal ethnic education. As a result, foreigners tend to settle around the areas where they can find the jobs, housings and education opportunities. It was observed that those circumstances forced foreigners to gather around Okubo. However, majority of Japanese residents in Okubo perceives foreign residences negatively. They prefer to keep homogeneous society and believe that foreign residents are incapable of adapting to Japanese authentic lifestyle.<BR> Japanese and foreign residents in Okubo uphold mutual noninterference lifestyle for social harmony. The social conditions that enable noninterference lifestyle are weakening of community solidarity and increasing supplies of housings which protect privacy, as well as tolerance on globalization, and accumulation of “know-how” on troubles that occurred in coexistence of Japanese and foreign residents. Thus, it can be argued that Okubo is not the city that Japanese and foreign residents live together, but the city that they live separately.
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