Question: What steps is Japan taking to merge their cultural 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. 
Dynamic identities contribute to Benedict Anderson’s notions of nationalism and nationality.
The Celtic identities constructed in America contribute to the dynamic being of American nationalism that we are founded upon.
Freedom, a foundational principle of American society, was encouraged by the Celtic influence in Appalachia through their contribution to Union forces during the Civil War.
The Union was a more democratizing entity and more willing to accept pluralism in American society compared to their Confederate counterparts who were more bent on maintaining a separatist identity According to Benedict Anderson, “nationality” was formed from the accumulation of cultural artifacts that were able to be transplanted to an array of environments and societies and merge with a wide variety of political and ideological frameworks.
This imagined nationality as Benedict calls it, is a constantly shifting and dynamic entity.
“It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, yet in the mind of each lives the image of their communion.” (Anderson, 6).
Celtic identity is one such imagined community.
The diaspora of Celts from other areas of the world to America is representative of the imagined community.
The cultural diaspora from the United Kingdom, specifically Scotland, Ireland and England, landed primarily in the Appalachian region of the United States.
Thousands of immigrants sailed and maintained and improved on agricultural pursuits to better improve their lives.
The British brought with them cultural elements such as music, dress, and ideology.
Among these Brits were those defined as Celts, or people who resided in or spoke the languages of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, or Brittany.
The Celtic identity is complex: A large portion of this Celticness rested on musical practices, both spoken word and instrumental, that constructs the distinct identity.
Layered regional and national identities were assembled over time in the Celtic-speaking world, centered on practices of both modern and historic Celtic instruments.
American Bluegrass and Folk music styles have roots in Appalachian cultures linked to Scottish, Irish, and English peoples, or Celts.
Layers of American identity were constructed by the influence of a new musical style.
Culture was formed and community was created.
Regional identity flourished.
This concept of nation building in America is particularly true for the Scots and stems in part from the vast territory that led to development of family autonomy, or Clans, in Scotland and influenced the role of the individual.
New layers of identity were created by the influx of Celts to America.
Identity is composed of characteristics and values that contribute to individuals and communities.
Identities combine to form a distinct sense of nationalism.
Michael Dietler asserts that Celtic identity, which rose within Celtic speaking regions such as Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Brittany, is itself an “imagined community” possessing its own nationalist ideals constructed from regional and individual cultural identities.
The sense of nationalism that Celts possess is what Dietler refers to as Celticism, “self-conscious attempts to construct ethnicized forms of collective memory and communal identity that are territorially bounded and imbedded in overt political projects and ideologies.” (Dietler 239).
He continues to define Celtitude as the feeling felt by those who draw ethnic ties to Celtic life.
They feel a sense of ethno-nostalgia for Scottish or Irish heritage.
Celticity is centered on a global spiritual connection to the idea of Celtic identity.
This is composed of people who wish to identify as something other than white.
Dietler’s theories on identity suggest that music and cultural identities have overlapped.
Celtic styles merge with other styles and move toward a role as “World Music”: many can relate to world music and Celtic styles create solidarity among those who wish to identify as Celtic.  
The town has interesting points, attractions and landmarks, as far as tourism, culture and heritage are concerned.
"A bid to save Sta.
Rita's local cultural identity" (Monday, March 21, 2011", states:"The cultural movement in Sta.
Rita town has again achieved renewed vibrancy with the local government led by Mayor Yolly Pineda taking concrete strides in saving and strengthening the town's cultural identity.
This town, the birthplace of the performing arts group ArtiSta.
Rita, is now creating steps in promoting the town's cultural strengths.
The envy of nearby municipalities, government officials here last week inaugurated the new Sta.
Rita boundary tower marker that highlights the cultural life in the town.
The tower was designed by Kapampangan artist Ron Salazar and features bas relief sculptures in the style of letras y figuras forming the name of the town, as facets of Ritenan daily life are represented in exquisite detail.
Unique in the sense that one can actually get a summary of what to expect from the town just be looking at the figures.
The "S" is represented by a farmer harvesting Duman rice crops; "T", a vendor selling vegetables; "A" with a farmer planting Duman followed by "R" represented by a fisherman catching fishes, "I" with a Filipino wearing barong tagalong; "T" with a farmer carrying sugar canes and another "A" with a couple sharing a box of turrones de casuy.
Ingeniously, the letters form the name of this sweet-tooth town."Sta.
Rita is a peaceful and beautiful town.
We strive to save and strengthen our cultural traditions for the sake of the next generation," Mayor Pineda told Sun.
Star Pampanga.
The marker is just a portion of the effect of the cultural renaissance sweeping this town, a small but significant step in promoting its tourism potential.
The local government even commissioned to have the new municipal building patterned after the style of old Spanish era houses in the poblacion area.
Tourism programs are also being planned to highlight its cultural and historical significance.
Tourists visiting this town would surely have their fill of a horde of confectionary delights from turrones de casuy, sans rival to San Nicolas cookies and duman and suman.
Owners of old houses along the poblacion area, in fact, are more than happy to have guests to have pictures taken of their ancestral homes.
Recently, the town's parish church which is home to the first class relic of Sta.
Rita de Cascia is being tapped to be included in a heritage tour of old churches in the district.
The move is expected to draw in tourists, who for sure will not find the town lacking in cultural, historical and modern attractions.
The Alviz Farm in Barangay San Agustin, the Mahogany Farm, old houses at the poblacion area, Villa Epifania and the old Dominican Convent are just a few of the places that one could visit in a day.
Officials here are optimistic that the town will be able to achieve its cultural objectives in the coming months."
Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture.
Cultural identity is similar to and overlaps with, "identity politics".