Your preconceived notions about Tokyo, Japan and its inhabitants probably allow you to believe everyone is a technical wiz with a six-figure salary and leases a new Honda at the top of each year. But the financial crisis (or recession as Americans coined it), is a global surge and Japan’s biggest city is not exempt to the hardships. But the billion dollar boys over at Nike have stepped in with a solution to increase revenue flow–or have they stepped in where they’re not wanted?

Secretly aligning with the local government, Nike has reached an agreement with the local government to turn Miyashita Park, a known area for homeless citizens, into a state-of-the-art skate park that is sure to attract national attention. But the locals living in the tent city will be ushered on their nomadic way to who knows where.

Now it’s common knowledge that in a capitalistic society, the strong will eat the weak until the meek inherit the earth (or something along those lines). But where are Japan’s homeless shelters, unemployment systems and humanitarian aid in the matter? Surely, the thought of an Americanized climate can’t be the biggest outcry of the ordeal. Because if you take away the Japanese imports in the US of A, you’re left with Argentina.

Keep it Miyashita or keep it real? That is the question.