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Uncovering the black-box of educational dark tourism: Comparative analysis of the mechanisms of packaging and perceiving of war narratives through war heritage sites between former enemies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18H03462
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
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) DIMACHE ALEXANDRU  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 助教 (30870240)
BUI ThanhHuong  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 教授 (80711556)
YOUN SeungHo  立命館アジア太平洋大学, アジア太平洋学部, 准教授 (80804757)
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)
Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥14,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,450,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Keywordswar memory / educational tourism / memory studies / dark tourism / heritage tourism / war heritage / war and tourism / education and tourism / mediated memory / educational dark tourism / Dark tourism education / War memory and education / War educational tourism
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research, in questioning the validity of the concept of dark tourism, has uncovered the black box of educational dark tourism in Asia. More specifically, we have found the following aspects of educational dark tourism, a sub-category of dark tourism: 1) educational war-related tourism in Asian societies memorializes deadly suffering, but also sheds light on the brightness brought after the darkness, 2) the process of (young) visitors’ war memory (re)construction involves interrelation among various forms of representations of past wars, along with educational tourism (materials) and history textbooks. Findings of this research unpacked dark tourism practices in Asian societies, pointing out an urgent need to understand how to reconstruct war memories among young generations, in line with modern and popular forms of remembrance, such as popular media.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

Educational dark tourism, a sub-category of dark tourism, had a large gap in theory, with reference to the Asia Pacific region. Our findings revealed the theoretical limitation of common Western-based approach to dark tourism, stressing the need of incorporating Asian-based conceptualization.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2022 Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • 2019 Annual Research Report
  • 2018 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (31 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (21 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 20 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] War-Themed Shojo Manga as a Site for Female Subjectivity: An Aesthetic Analysis of Mothers and Daughters Narrating War2022

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida and Kazumi Nagaike
    • Journal Title

      U.S.-JAPAN WOMEN’S JOURNAL

      Volume: 61 Issue: 1 Pages: 76-97

    • DOI

      10.1353/jwj.2022.0003

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Ambivalent Female Bodies: A Place for Feminine War Memory in Japan (https://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ejcjs/vol22/iss1/yoshida.html)2022

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Journal Title

      Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies

      Volume: 22 (1)

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Ado/apting established methods: a critique of McWha, Frost, & Laing (2018)2022

    • Author(s)
      Alexandru Dimache
    • Journal Title

      Current Issues in Tourism

      Volume: N/A Issue: 24 Pages: 1-15

    • DOI

      10.1080/13683500.2022.2151874

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Contested interpretation of Vietnam War Heritage: Tour Guides’ Mediating Roles2020

    • Author(s)
      Phuong M. Ngo & Huong T. Bui
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Tourism & Adventure

      Volume: 2 Pages: 61-84

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Art as Peace Education at "Dark" Museum and Sites in the United Kingdom, Europe and Southeast Asia2018

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

      Asian Journal of Peace Building

      Volume: 6 Pages: 157-198

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Author-Editor Dialogue2023

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      3rd International Conference of Critical Tourism Studies, Asia Pacific Chapter
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Book Introduction “Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices"2023

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      Workshop at Vietnam National University
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Narrating the war from the margin: women’s embodied narratives in Japanese war fictions2022

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN 2022 (ASCJ)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Haunting Memories from the Battlefield: Analysis of the Grotesque in War Manga2022

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference 2022
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] (Re)memorizing WWII across boundaries: An Analysis of Young Visitors of Japan’s Educational Tourism (shugaku ryoko) in Okinawa2022

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      International Workshop on Development of Community Development and Sustainable Tourism Programs in Natural Heritage Sites at Ryukyu University
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Narratives of WWII through female bodies in peripheries: the analysis of Japanese postwar fiction, the series of Himeyuri in the North2021

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      EAJS2021: 16th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Educational Tourism as a Narrative Space for Contested Memories of WWII: The Analysis of Young Visitors' Experience of War Heritage Sites in Okinawa2021

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      WCAAS 2021 Annual Conference (WESTERN CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES)
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Educational Tourism in Japan (shugaku ryoko) as A Contact Zone for Rememoration of WWII2021

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference 2021
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] From the politics of memory to the politics of tourism: contested interpretations at the Vietnam War's former DMZ battlefields2021

    • Author(s)
      Huong Thanh Bui
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference 2021
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reading (Dark) Heritage Sites: A Peircean Semiotic Methodology2021

    • Author(s)
      Alexandru DIMACHE
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference 2021
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Psychological Reactions towards Negative-natured Historical Attractions in Post-colonial Society2021

    • Author(s)
      Seung Ho YOUN
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference 2021
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Women, Abjected: the Role of Women on the Battlefield in Japanese War Dramas ~ Female body split up in the masculine national discourse ~2019

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Association for Asian Studies in Asia 2019 Annual Conference (Bangkok)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reinventing Museums in the Context of Global Tourism: A Comparative Study of War-related Museums in East Asia and Southeast Asia2019

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui, Kaori Yoshida, Seung Ho Youn
    • Organizer
      European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (Berlin)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] [Panel title: Strange Yet Familiar: Liminality and Dissonance in Japan’s Aesthetic Memory] Women, Abjected: The Role of Women on the Battlefield in Japanese War Dramas2019

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      13th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Mobilizing Affect: the Mechanism of Memory-making of War2019

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      17th Asia Pacific Conference (Oita, Japan)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reconceptualization of Visitor Engagement at War Sites in Vietnam2019

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      Sustainable Tourism Development: Lessons Learned for Southeast Asian Countries
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Interpretation of war sites: A tour guide perspective2019

    • Author(s)
      Phuong M. Ngo & Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      2nd International Conference of Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The operation of war manga form in the context of mediated collective memory: Shigeru Mizuki’s war manga as a counter to the dominant narrative2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Asian Conference Mechademia, Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Memory-making of war through educational dark tourism in Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      OVJEC Symposium in Hanoi (Japan Foundation Project: Oregon-Vietnam-Japan Exchange and Collaboration Project)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] National Memory-making and Negotiation of Local Memories of WWII in the Globalizing Dark Tourism: The Case of Educational Dark Tourism in Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference at APU, Oita, Japan
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Heritage of War and Natural Disaster: Ethics of Displays2018

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui
    • Organizer
      ATLAS Annual Conference 2018 Destination Dynamics, Aaborg University
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices2022

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui et al.
    • Total Pages
      224
    • Publisher
      CABI
    • ISBN
      1789242789
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Chapter 2 (The history and evolution of Vietnam tourism) in Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices2022

    • Author(s)
      Huong T. Bui and He T. Bui
    • Total Pages
      16
    • Publisher
      CABI
    • ISBN
      1789242789
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Chapter 9 (Dark tourism in the former Demilitarized Zone) in Vietnam Tourism: Policies and Practices2022

    • Author(s)
      Phuong M. Ngo , Huong T. Bui , Alexandru Dimache
    • Total Pages
      15
    • Publisher
      CABI
    • ISBN
      1789242789
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia2020

    • Author(s)
      Trupp, A., Dolezal, C. & Bui, H.T. (eds.)
    • Total Pages
      222
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2019 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") (155-179)2019

    • Author(s)
      Kaori Yoshida
    • Total Pages
      24
    • Publisher
      Palagrave
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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