The Ameyoko food market in Tokyo's Ueno district may be just another yearend shopping stop for most people.
But Wesley Hughes considers it a role model for establishing an organized shopping district in his home country of Jamaica.
"In Jamaica, shopping areas are not well-organized and the transport system is not well-integrated" into such zones, said the 50-year-old Hughes, who is director general of Jamaica's Planning Institute. "Buyers don't have the incentive to go to that (kind of) shopping area."
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