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1st Edition

Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism

Edited By Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura Copyright 2017
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge
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Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Amidst the boom in global interest in Japanese popular culture, the utilization of popular culture to induce tourism domestically and internationally has been central to the "Cool Japan"... Read more

1. Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism
Philip Seaton and Takayoshi Yamamura

2. Otaku tourism and the anime pilgrimage phenomenon in Japan
Takeshi Okamoto

3. Rekijo, pilgrimage and ‘pop-spiritualism’: pop-culture-induced heritage tourism of/for young women
Akiko Sugawa-Shimada

4. Contents tourism and local community response: Lucky star and collaborative anime-induced tourism in Washimiya
Takayoshi Yamamura

5. Taiga dramas and tourism: historical contents as sustainable tourist resources
Philip Seaton

Biography

Philip Seaton is a Professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University, where he is the convenor of the Modern Japanese Studies Program. He is the author of Japan’s Contested War Memories (Routledge, 2007), Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border (Routledge, 2015, co-edited with Svetlana Paichadze) and numerous articles on war and memory in Japan.

Takayoshi Yamamura is a Professor in the Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido. His website is www. http://yamamuratakayoshi.com/en/

Together they edit the International Journal of Contents Tourism.

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