Confronting difficult past: Dark Tourism development in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
20H04435
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
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| Research Institution | Wakayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
Sharpley Richard 和歌山大学, 国際観光学研究センター, 客員教授 (60863082)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
加藤 久美 和歌山大学, 観光学部, 教授 (30511365)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥9,750,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,250,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
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| Keywords | Dark tourism / Difficult pasts / Community / Japan / Peace / disaster / heritage / community / resilience / ダークツーリズム / 負の遺産 / 理解 / 和解 / 平和 / 観光商品 / 地域コミュニティ / 記憶の継承 / 倫理 / コミュニティ / 文化遺産 |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This study aims to explore the potential to achieve peace and understanding through dark tourism sites in Japan. Specifically, through an analysis of the representation/interpretation of dark or difficult pasts/events and, where appropriate, visitors’ experiences, it will identify the extent to which peace, respect and mutual understanding is or may be encouraged through tourism. In so doing, the study also explicitly seeks to contribute to a fundamental objective of Japan’s Tourism Nation Basic Promotion Plan, namely, the ‘enhancement of mutual international understanding’.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research aimed to consider the role of a tourist destinations/attractions that offer the opportunity to consider the presentation and interpretation of difficult/dark events in Japanese history in the context of both broader contemporary debates surrounding how such events should be remembered and, in their role as tourist attractions, their contribution or otherwise to peace, understanding and reconciliation. In doing so, we give particular focus to the role of local community who embraces such history as part of their own sttory. Case studies were conducted in both well- and lesser-known sites related to the Pacific War, from a comparison of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Museums and sites associated with suicide operations to an island where poison gas was manufactured and a former coal mine at which both British and Korean labourers worked during the last year of WWII. Other case studies found to be relevant include disaster sites contentious industrial heritage, controversial Hansen’s disease sanatoria, and a number of sites associated with the Hidden Christians in the Nagasaki region. Findings are now being written in a book: Confronting difficult pasts, contracted with the publisher, Routledge.
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| Research Progress Status |
令和4年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
令和4年度が最終年度であるため、記入しない。
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