2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Confronting difficult past: Dark Tourism development in Japan
| Project/Area Number |
20H04435
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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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| Keywords | Dark tourism / Difficult pasts / Community / Japan / Peace |
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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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