War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-14569-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 138 mm, Gewicht: 232 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Asia

This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare.

It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does visitation to war-related sites transition from being an act of mourning or commemorative pilgrimage into an act of devotion or fan pilgrimage? Representing the collaboration of ten expert researchers of Japanese popular culture and travel, it develops a theoretical framework for understanding war-related contents tourism and demonstrates the framework in practice via numerous short case studies across a millennium of warfare in Japan including: the tales of heroic deities in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, AD 712), the Edo poetry of Matsuo Basho, and the Pacific war through lens of popular media such as the animated film Grave of the Fireflies.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as more general issues of war and peace in Japan, East Asia and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seaton, Philip

Yamamura, Takayoshi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Preface

PHILIP SEATON

Acknowledgements

Periods of Japanese history

1 Theorizing war-related contents tourism

PHILIP SEATON AND TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

PART I

From myths to the middle ages

2 The narrative worlds of ancient wars: Travelling heroes in Kojiki

TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

3 The Mongol invasions of Japan and Tsushima tourism

KYUNGJAE JANG

4 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and contents tourism in Aizu-Wakamatsu

ALEKSANDRA JAWOROWICZ-ZIMNY

5 History girls and women’s war-related contents tourism

AKIKO SUGAWA-SHIMADA



PART II

The rise and fall of the Tokugawas

6 Satsuma’s invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1609 and Okinawa tourism

KYUNGJAE JANG

7 War-related narratives and contents tourism during the ‘Tokugawa peace’

TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

8 Token Ranbu and samurai swords as tourist attractions

AKIKO SUGAWA-SHIMADA

9 Castles and castle towns in Japanese tourism

YOSUKE FUJIKI AND HITOSHI NAKAI

10 Festivals of war: Travelling the Shinsengumi in 2019

PHILIP SEATON

PART III

Imperial Japan

11 Hokkaido as imperial acquisition and the Ainu in popular culture and tourism

RYO KOARAI

12 The Russo-Japanese War and (contents) tourism

PHILIP SEATON

13 Tourism relating to the new culture introduced by First World War German POWs

KYUNGJAE JANG

14 Theatre (contents) tourism and war as a backdrop to romance

AKIKO SUGAWA-SHIMADA

PART IV

The Asia-Pacific War

15 Yasukuni Shrine’s Yushukan museum as a site of contents tourism

PHILIP SEATON AND TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

16 The sense of belonging created by In This Corner of the World

LULI VAN DER DOES

17 Travelling Grave of the Fireflies: The gap between creators’ intentions and audiences’/tourists’ interpretations

TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

18 Tours of Tokkotai (kamikaze) training bases

LULI VAN DER DOES

19 Repatriation and the enka ballad Ganpeki no haha

AKIKO SUGAWA-SHIMADA

PART V

Postwar Japan

20 Kantai Collection and entertainmentization of the Second World War

KYUNGJAE JANG

21 The war metaphors underpinning Mizuki Shigeru yokai tourism

QIAODAN WANG AND PHILIP SEATON

22 Shin Godzilla: Tourism consuming images of JSDF, kaiju characters, and destroyed sites

ALEKSANDRA JAWOROWICZ-ZIMNY AND TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

23 Fantasy wars and their real-life inspirations: Tourism and international conflicts caused by Attack on Titan

RYO KOARAI AND TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA

Conclusions: Patterns of war-related (contents) tourism

TAKAYOSHI YAMAMURA AND PHILIP SEATON

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Takayoshi Yamamura is a Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan.

Philip Seaton is a Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.