ABSTRACT
In the twenty-first century, the concept of the creative city was introduced, focusing on the importance of creative talents and creative industries based on individual creativity, skill and talent. They are expected to create economic wealth and jobs through developing intellectual property regimes. This chapter introduces the best practice of sustainable cities with creativity in Japan. The concept of the 'sustainable city' was introduced in the late 1990s as an anti-global city concept, and several measures to create sustainable cities were recommended to the Japanese Government by the OECD in 2001. The concept of 'city' will be interpreted not by size but by coherence as a 'community'. In the face of an aging and declining population, Japan is being forced to change its socio-economic structure from one based on growth to a more sustainable model. Globalization is also having a great impact on the whole of Japanese society, including on people's daily lives.
