Question: How is Japan merging their national identity with Disneyland?
About the article "Tokyo Disneyland", section "Future of Disneyland Tokyo".

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Since the park opened in 1983, Disney Tokyo has regularly been the most profitable Disney Resort.
By 1994, over 140 million people had entered through the gates of Tokyo Disneyland (the population of Japan is only 127.6 million) and the popularity has only increased.
Just two years later, it employed 12,390 people, marking Disneyland Tokyo as the biggest workplace in Japan’s diversionary outings.
Though the attendance is similar to that of other Japanese theme parks, the revenue produced by Tokyo Disney is larger than all other national theme parks combined, thus greatly profiting the Japanese economy.
Many speculate that Disney Tokyo is such an economic success due to timing and location; the theme park lies in a metropolitan area with a population of 30 million and opened at the height of a booming economy where hard-working citizens desired a fun escape from reality.
One of the main goals of Tokyo Japan is to ever improve the park and grow away from the restrictions of American Disney.
Recently Japan has been merging their national identity with the Disneyland Park by adding attractions with distinctly Japanese qualities.
Cinderella Castle displays the classic Disney character and story plot yet presents the story through the eyes of the Japanese.
Meet the World, located in World Bazaar, shows true national identity and pride as it embodies Japanese history; instead of classic Disney characters, Meet the world characters wear the traditional Japanese Kimono.
Once nominated by Disney Legends, Masatomo Takahashi, the former president of The Oriental Land Company, states this growth and development as one as their primary goals: “We must not just repeat what we receive from Disney.
I am convinced that we must contribute to the cultural exchange between Japan and U.S.A." 
The Magic Kingdom within Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Tokyo Disneyland in Japan both have their own Tom Sawyer Island, still known by their original names.
Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland have islands, but with alternate themes.
In Disneyland Paris Big Thunder Mountain Railroad occupies the site while Hong Kong Disneyland has Tarzan's Treehouse which is in Adventureland in a similar location. 
St. Patrick features in many stories in the Irish oral tradition and there are many customs connected with his feast day.
The folklorist Jenny Butler discusses how these traditions have been given new layers of meaning over time while also becoming tied to Irish identity both in Ireland and abroad.
The symbolic resonance of the St. Patrick figure is complex and multifaceted, stretching from that of Christianity’s arrival in Ireland to an identity that encompasses everything Irish.
In some portrayals, the saint is symbolically synonymous with the Christian religion itself.
There is also evidence of a combination of indigenous religious traditions with that of Christianity, which places St Patrick in the wider framework of cultural hybridity.
Popular religious expression has this characteristic feature of merging elements of culture.
Later in time, the saint becomes associated specifically with Catholic Ireland and synonymously with Irish national identity.
Subsequently, St. Patrick is a patriotic symbol along with the colour green and the shamrock.
St. Patrick's Day celebrations include many traditions that are known to be relatively recent historically, but have endured through time because of their association either with religious or national identity.
They have persisted in such a way that they have become stalwart traditions, viewed as the strongest "Irish traditions". 
The is a national university in the city of Tokushima, Japan, with seven graduate schools and five undergraduate faculties.
The university was founded in 1949, by merging six separate national educational facilities into one. 
Disneyland Paris is twinned with:  Dinant, Belgium