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The integration of negative heritage in rehabilitation strategies in Fukushima Prefecture: Bosai Tourism and Social Services Improvements in depopulated regions in Futaba, Namie, Minamisoma and Soma.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K23126
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section 0104:Geography, cultural anthropology, folklore, and related fields
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

GERSTER Julia  東北大学, 災害科学国際研究所, 助教 (90842716)

Project Period (FY) 2019-08-30 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
KeywordsDisaster / Revovery / Cutural Memory / Negative Heritage / Tourism / Fukushima / GEJE / Tsunami / disaster heritage / negative heritage / collective memory / cultural memory / DRR / educational tourism / museums / recovery / education / tourism / museum / Bosai Tourism / Dark Tourism / Disaster Recovery / Resilience / Identity / Cultural Memory / 3.11 / Negative heritage / Post-disaster / Earthquake / Nuclear Disaster / Recovery / Narratives / revitalization / disaster risk education / nuclear disaster / depopulation / disaster recovery
Outline of Research at the Start

This study clarifies and aims to evaluate how affected municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture try to integrate the negative image of the nuclear disaster in rehabilitation measures. Examples for such practices will be Bosai Tourism and social services improvements in depopulated and aging communities.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research analyzed post-disaster tourism and negative heritage preservation after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. It could clarify a tendency to foreground positive narratives within the disaster response and recovery as featured in tour branding, the selection of disaster heritage sites, and contents of disaster memorial museums. These tendencies led to a greater acceptance of tourism by local communities. Yet, the exclusion of dark topics limits critical educational aspects. Further, this study found vital differences in the challenges faced by Fukushima Prefecture, due the political aspects of the nuclear disaster, that were only partially addressed in tourism content. Finally, this research confirmed tourism as an essential contributor to local economies, and giving agency to disaster-affected people to shape narratives of recovery. Yet, the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the risk of over-relying on tourism as a revitalization method.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

This study clarified the risks and merits of post-disaster tourism as a recovery and revitalization method. Insights can be useful for similar cases in other countries and help to understand the importance of diversity in disaster cultural memory and disaster education.

Report

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

    (37 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 9 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (22 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 15 results,  Invited: 10 results) Funded Workshop (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Cornelia Reiher/Freie Universitaet(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Anna Wiemann/LMU Munich(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] : More than mushrooms: Local food culture and place-making after "Fukushima".2023

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Journal Title

      In: Huang, Shumei and Maly, Elizabeth (accepted edited volume): Place-making in Displacement: Community's responses to disasters from the Pacific Rim. Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies series.

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 福島第一原子力発電所の原子力災害の伝承とツーリズムの可能性」2023

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Journal Title

      川崎興太編『福島復興の視点・論点』

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Framing negative heritage in disaster risk education: school memorials after 3.112023

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster and Flavia Fulco
    • Journal Title

      Boyle, Edward (accepted edited volume): Heritage, Contested Sites, and Bordered Memories; East and West: Culture, Diplomacy and Interactions Series, Brill.

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Japan’s Disaster Memorial Museums and framing 3.11: Othering the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in cultural memory2022

    • Author(s)
      Gerster Julia、Maly Elizabeth
    • Journal Title

      Contemporary Japan

      Volume: 34 Issue: 2 Pages: 187-209

    • DOI

      10.1080/18692729.2022.2112479

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 「損失のヒエラルキーと演劇の力。福島県立相馬高校放送局の「今伝えたいこと(仮)」の事例に即して」2022

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Journal Title

      地球システムと倫理学会誌

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Out of the Dark: The challenges of Branding Post-Disaster Tourism Ten Years after the Great East Japan Earthquake2021

    • Author(s)
      Gerster Julia, Sebastien Penmellen Boret, Akihiro Shibayama
    • Journal Title

      EATSJ - Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Journal

      Volume: 2 Pages: 1-25

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Kataritsugi: Storytelling as a method in disaster risk education2021

    • Author(s)
      Gerster Julia, Shibayama Akihiro, Ono Madoka
    • Journal Title

      17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering Proceedings

      Volume: 1

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Post-Disaster Tourism and the recovery of the Tohoku region2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Journal Title

      Urban-rural migration and rural revitalization in Japan Research Blog

      Volume: 0

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 東日本大震災の経験の集合的記憶化への道:震災遺構と防災教育2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

      Volume: 1

    • NAID

      130008098074

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Kataritsugi: Storyelling as a method in disaster risk education2021

    • Author(s)
      Gerster, Julia; Shibayama Akihiro, and Ono Madoka
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 17WCEE, Sendai, Japan

      Volume: online Pages: 1-11

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Social Lives of Tsunami Walls in Japan: Concrete Culture, Social Innovation and Coastal Communities2020

    • Author(s)
      Boret Sebastien and Gerster Julia
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery, AIWEST-DR 2019, Sendai, Japan

      Volume: online Pages: 1-10

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Hierarchies of affectedness: Kizuna, perceptions of loss, and social dynamics in post-3.11 Japan.2019

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

      Volume: 41 Pages: 101304-101304

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101304

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Japan's Disaster Memorial Museums and framing 3.112022

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Teaching the Japan Disasters Digital Archive: Perspectives from Japan
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Disaster Memory and Gender Issues. Examples from Japan2022

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      JICA Presentation Session
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 5.Survivor accounts in tourism and their impact on disaster collective memory: The case of kataribe activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake.2022

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Asia Pacific Conference,
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 9.School Disaster Heritage Sites and cultural memory of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.2022

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      APRU Online series
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] School Disaster Heritage Sites and cultural memory of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake2022

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      APRU Multi Hazards Webinar Series
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Representations and Institutionalization of Disaster Memory in Tohoku. Disaster Museums and Exhibitions on the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Workshop: Kataribe and memory after the Great East Japan Earthquake (LMU Munich)
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 損失のヒエラルキーと演劇の力2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      地球システム・倫理学会 第17回学術大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] KATARITSUGI: Storytelling as a method in Disaster Education2021

    • Author(s)
      Gerster, Julia; Shibayama, Akihiro; Ono Madoka
    • Organizer
      World Conference of Engineering (WCEE)
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Hierarchies of affectedness and social dynamics in post-3.11 Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      European Association of Japanese Studies
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Framing Post-Disaster Dark Tourism ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster; Akihiro Shibayama; Madoka Ono, Sebastien Boret
    • Organizer
      Euro-Asia Tourism Studies Association (EATSA) Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 東日本大震災の経験の集合的気丘への道:震災遺構と防災教育2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Japan Anthropology Studies Association (JASCA)
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Institutionalization and Representations of Disaster Memory in Tohoku. Disaster Museums and Exhibitions on the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster2021

    • Author(s)
      Gerster, Julia
    • Organizer
      Continuity and Change ten years after 3.11. VSJF annual conference, Berlin, 2021.3.19, Online
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Kataribe to the World. コロナ禍の中と課題と成果。2021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Tohoku Hisaichi Kataribe Forum
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Between Debris and Disaster Heritage: The Connection of Memories and Disaster Remains after the Great East Japan Earthquake 20112021

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      3rd MEMORY, AFFECTS AND EMOTIONS International Interdisciplinary Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Framing negative heritage in disaster risk education: school memorials after 3.112020

    • Author(s)
      Gerster, Julia and Fulco, Flavia
    • Organizer
      Border of memories Conference, Kyushu, 2020.7.31, Online
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Varieties of Justice and Hierarchies of Affectedness2020

    • Author(s)
      Gerster, Julia
    • Organizer
      Association for Asian Studies Conference in Asia
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] School Memorials and disaster risk education after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.2020

    • Author(s)
      Gerster, Julia
    • Organizer
      Learning from disasters for a resilient society. Experiences from the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami and COVID19 pandemic. Berlin Science Week, Berlin, 2020.11.2, Online
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Hierarchies of affectedness and social dynamics in post-3.11 Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Resilient living environments in the recovery from the disaster
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The integration of negative heritage in collective memory: Bosai Tourism after 3.112020

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Critical Tourism Studies Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] BOSAI tourism or BOSAI education? Exploring disaster prevention educational practices in the afterrmath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.2020

    • Author(s)
      Flavia Fulco and Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      Critical Tourism Studies Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The integration of negative heritage in collective memory: Bosai Tourism after 3.112019

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      EAJS in Japan
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The power of Disaster Theater in education and social recovery: Theater projects in Northeast Japan after 3.112019

    • Author(s)
      Julia Gerster
    • Organizer
      AIWEST
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Funded Workshop] Workshop: Kataribe and memory after the Great East Japan Earthquake2021

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-09-03   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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