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Thursday January 3, 12:50 AMTokyo is Asia's capital, 4th in the world: survey(Kyodo) _ Tokyo is the capital of Asia thanks to its economic and cultural power, according to a recent survey which showed it far surpassing its rivals in the region.And Tokyo was ranked as the world's fourth most important city in the survey conducted by the Independent newspaper's "Traveller" supplement. London took the title of "capital of the world," followed by New York and then Paris in third place. A team of researchers scored 60 cities on data derived from 14 criteria, in order to find the world's most influential cities. This included things like population, the number of World Heritage sites, whether the city had ever hosted the Olympics and the city's stock market capitalization. They also used less conventional measures, such as the number of results on Google when you type in the name of that city, the number of individual guidebooks on a city at a London store and the number of symphony orchestras. Danielle Demetriou, the newspaper's correspondent in Tokyo, says that stereotyping undermines Tokyo's cosmopolitan nature which has been fueled by its economic might. She says it has a range of international stores and restaurants which can often be overlooked elsewhere in the world. After the various scores had been added up, the figures were readjusted to give London 100 points, and each city's score was changed accordingly. Tokyo scored 74 and was well ahead in Asia with Beijing on 51 and Seoul on 49. Close by were Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. |
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