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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

吉田 香織  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 (DIMACHE ALEXANDRUOCTAVIAN)  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, 准教授 (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 Granted (Fiscal Year 2021)
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 / dark tourism / heritage tourism / war and tourism / education and tourism / mediated memory / war heritage / educational dark tourism / Dark tourism education / War memory and education / War educational tourism
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In AY2019 we have conducted various fieldwork for comparison between different countries in Pacific Asia. We have updated or incorporated literature review and methodological/theoretical frames. We also presented our research findings in many international conferences to receive feedback. In addition, we organized a couple of workshops for students and faculty to develop professional network with researchers in the field. Our main research activities this year include: 1)presentations of the research outcomes at international conferences, 2)fieldwork at dark tourism destinations in Asia Pacific and Europe, which now comes with this history (museums, dark sites and community information centers, venue operators, etc.), 3)networking for interviews with elementary school teachers, 4)participating in data analysis training seminars, 5)participating in peace education workshop, 6)writing a book project proposal for a publisher, as well as writing drafts of two chapters, 7)conducting workshops and research exchange on dark tourism inside and outside Japan.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

Our project is considered to be going well overall, based on the completion of the following specific research activities: 1)fieldwork at dark tourism destinations to examine the destination space, collect data and interviews with stakeholders (site operators, visitors, venue operators, tour guides) in Asia Pacific and Europe (Japan-Hiroshima, Okinawa, Kagoshima, Vietnam, Indonesia, UK, South Korea, as well as the South Pacific (Australia), 2)participating in and coordinating war and peace education workshop among Asian university students with Okinawa Peace Museum (Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Taiwan), 3)networking with elementary school teachers who coordinated shugaku ryoko in Fukuoka, 4)participating in statistical data analysis seminars (Nvivo and survey methods), 5)conducting workshop on dark/heritage tourism in Vietnam and UK, 6)research exchange and training activities and organizing workshops with researchers in history and heritage tourism in Vietnam, Malaysia, Japan, UK (workshop with Prof. Jeff Hanes from the University of Oregon on Dependence housing: American occupation in Japan and workshop with David Weaver and Prof. Young-Sook Lee at Toyo University, 7)presentations of the research outcomes at various international conferences in Asia and Europe (AAS in Asia, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies ACAS Conference, AP Conference, Asia Pacific Critical Tourism Studies Conference), 8)writing Routledge Special Volume manuscript introduction chapter completed, 9)published a peer-reviewed article and an edited book.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

Since this coming year is the halfway point of the project, we are generally planning to focus more on compiling the bulk of data collected and analyzing them to present the findings at international conferences, and working toward our book manuscript after submitting the proposal (Introduction and 2 chapters) to Routledge Special Volume in Asia Pacific. Along with these main goals, we will continue on the following research activities in AY 2020: 1)conduct interviews with elementary and high school teachers in Japan and Vietnam, who have organized educational dark tourism, 2)follow-up interviews with War-related Museum managers in Japan (Okinawa, Chiran, renovated Hiroshima) and collect data from visitors' notes at the museums, 3)developing the comparative analysis of educational dark tourism destinations between Japan and South Korea (fieldwork, triangulation and theorization of data), 4)adding more fieldwork in China/Nanjing for data collection, 5)follow-up interviews with participants in Okinawa university peace education workshop in 2019.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report
  • 2018 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(14 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results) Book (2 results)

  • [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] 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] 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: 2021-08-30  

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