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The potential of war heritage sites as educational and touristic attractions in Japan: comparative studies with five relevant countries

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15H03149
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Tourism Studies
Research InstitutionRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Principal Investigator

YOSHIDA Kaori  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (00550386)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) リー ティモシー  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (20635495)
COOPER M・J・M  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (50369146)
BUI ThanhHuong  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 准教授 (80711556)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥11,830,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,730,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Keywordsdark tourism / war heritage / war and edutainment / educational tourism / war memory / war edutainment / war and memory / war and tourism / war and entertainment / war education / War and tourism / War and memory / Education and tourism
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on the data collected from fieldwork at war-related sites and museums, interviews with site managers, tourism bureau officials, travel agents and site visitors, the project has investigated the complexity of war heritage sites as both historical education and attractive tourism destinations, by incorporating temporal, spatial, and ideological/intentional dimensions. It has successfully elaborated the symbiosis between historical education and international tourism by comparing war heritage sites from the 20th century’s major wars. Our findings highlight the complexity of using war heritage sites for war narrative formation in the context of contemporary international tourism, revealing four themes aligned in two pairs, tourism-education and war-peace, which are intertwined with the historical context of each site. This project also stresses that the exploration of the meaning and motivations of dark tourism once again became important in the world of academia and popular media.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Annual Research Report
  • 2015 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (22 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (15 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 13 results,  Invited: 2 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Art as peace education at “dark” museums and sites in UK, Europe and South East Asia2018

    • Author(s)
      Chris Williams, Huong T. Bui, Kaori Yoshida, and Hae-eun Lee
    • Journal Title

      Asian Journal of Peacebuilding

      Volume: Vol 6 (1) Pages: 1-9

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Yasukuni Shrine: Perspectives on dark tourism and the persistence of regional cultural conflict2017

    • Author(s)
      Malcolm Cooper, Huong T. Huong, Kaori Yoshida, and Timothy Lee
    • Journal Title

      The 82nd Tourism Sciences Society of Korea (TOSOK) International Tourism Conference Proceeding

      Volume: Proceeding Pages: 186-191

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Does Tourism Illuminate the Darkness of Hiroshima and Nagasaki2016

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida, Huong T. Bui, Timothy Lee
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Destination Marketing and Management

      Volume: 5/4 Pages: 333-340

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Nostalgic shojo as an affective apparatus in gendered memory-making of war2017

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Cultural Typhoon 2017 in Tokyo (Waseda University)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Memory-making of War through school Trip (shugaku ryoko) in Japan: Opportunity or Trap?2017

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      EAJS (European Association of Japanese Studies) Conference, Lisbon
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Challenges and opportunities of dark tourism in Japan: a study of the emerging shifts in shugaku ryoko2017

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      15th Asia Pacific Conference, Beppu, Oita
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Shojo as an apparatus in gendered memory-making: analysis of otome in postwar Japanese war films2017

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Symposium: "What is Japan Studies?" (funded by the Japan Foundation Project: Oregon-Vietnam-Japan Exchange and Collaboration Project (OVJEC), Univ. of Education in Ho Chi Minh
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Curation of Death: A Comparative Study of Museums in Japan and Vietnam2017

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      15th Asia Pacific Conference, Beppu, Oita
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Transformation of Con Dao Island from a Prison Hell to Tourism Paradise2017

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui and Huong H. Do
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Tourism and Marine Tourismm, Ton DUc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Commodification of War Sites for Tourism Consumption2017

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      5th International Conference on Tourism (ICOT), Chiang Mai, Thailand
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Yasukuni Shrine: Perspectives on dark tourism and the persistence of regional cultural conflict2017

    • Author(s)
      Malcolm Cooper
    • Organizer
      The 82nd Tourism Sciences Society of Korea (TOSOK) International Tourism Conference. The Ulsan College and Hyundai Hotel in Ulsan, South Korea
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Maiden girls in the discourse of war memory: complexity of memory-making through postwar Japanese films2016

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      University of British Columbia, Lecture for Graduate School in Asian Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      University of British Columbia, Canada
    • Year and Date
      2016-02-22
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Complexity of Dark Tourism: Packaging ‘Edutainment’ of War Tourism in Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Institute of Asian Research, Centre for Japanese Studies Brown Bag Lunch Talk
    • Place of Presentation
      Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada
    • Year and Date
      2016-01-20
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Challenges and prospects in making memories of war through dark tourism: Trap in conceptual and framing of dark tourism, the case of Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Association of Asian Studies in Asia
    • Place of Presentation
      Doshisha University, Kyoto
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Historical education and international tourism at war heritage sites in Europe and the Asia Pacific2016

    • Author(s)
      Malcolm Cooper
    • Organizer
      ATLAS Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Canterbury, UK
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Transformation of Con Dao (Vietnam) from a Prison Island to a Tourist Idyll2016

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      Association of Asian Studies in Asia
    • Place of Presentation
      Doshisha University, Kyoto
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Vietnam War - A Vietnamese Perspective of Dark Tourism2016

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui, Kaori Yoshida, Timothy Lee, Malcolm Cooper
    • Organizer
      The 80th TOSOK International Tourism Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Pyeongchang, South Korea
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The ‘Edutainment’ of War Tourism in Hiroshima and Nagasaki2015

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida, Huong Bui, Timothy Lee
    • Organizer
      Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality International Conference 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Amsterdam, Holland
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-26
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Tourism and Heritage: Networks, Communities and the Digital Age in the series Landscape and Heritage, "Heritage landscape of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"2018

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui, Kaori Yoshida, Timothy J. Lee
    • Publisher
      University of Amsterdam Press
    • ISBN
      9789462985353
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Shojo across Media: Exploring Popular Sites of “Girl” Discourse in Japan (Chapter: "Mediating Otome in the Discourse of War Memory: Complexity of Memory-making through Postwar Japanese War Films")2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Publisher
      Palagrave
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Contested Memories of Conflicts in the 20th Century: Dark Tourism in the Asia Pacific2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida, Huong T. Bui, Timothy Lee, Malcolm Cooper
    • Publisher
      London: Palgrave MacMillan
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Tourism in South and North Korea. In C. M. Hall & S. J. Page (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Tourism in Asia2017

    • Author(s)
      Timothy Lee
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9781138784581
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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