Tokyo rises to 2nd in global city attractiveness ranking for first time

Tokyo rose to second among 48 major cities worldwide in overall attractiveness for the first time after nine years in third place, according to a report released Wednesday by a Japanese research institute, surpassing New York due to a rise in overseas visitors.While this marked the first shift among the top five cities in nine years, London maintained the top spot in the Global Power City Index for the 14th consecutive year, despite a decline in its overall score, according to the Mori Memorial Foundation's Institute for Urban Strategies.The index measures cities' "magnetism," or their abil…READ FULL ARTICLE