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Materials relating to Chapters 11-14 of War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan.
Chapter 11: “Hokkaido as imperial acquisition and the Ainu in popular culture and tourism”, Ryo Koarai
Read the chapter here.
TV animation Golden Kamuy official website; Comics Golden Kamuy official website
Hokkaido is rooting for Golden Kamuy campaign, Hokkaido Tourism Organization
Special exhibition at the Upopoi National Ainu Museum
Hokuchin Memorial Museum official website
Chapter 12: “The Russo-Japanese War and (contents) tourism”, Philip Seaton
Read the chapter here.
Memorial Ship Mikasa homepage
The Clouds Above the Hill machizukuri (community building) project in Matsuyama and their promotion video (below).
Chapter 13: “Tourism relating to the new culture introduced by First World War German POWs”, Kyungjae Jang
Read the chapter here.
Baruto no Gakuen shooting location video
Homepage for the NHK Drama Kazamidori ; the Kazamidori Museum in Kobe.
Chapter 14: “Theatre (contents) tourism and war as a backdrop to romance”, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada
Read the chapter here.
Roman Action Play: Ruroni Kenshin at Shinbashi Enbujo Theatre
Nihon Taisho Mura (Japan Taisho Village), a site of contents tourism for fans wanting to experience the atmosphere of the Taisho (1912-26) era.
Other materials related to the period
Japan Review special edition, 2019, No.33, War, Tourism, and Modern Japan.
Kate McDonald, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan. University of California Press, 2017.
Philip Seaton, ‘On the trail of The Last Samurai (I): Taranaki’, International Journal of Contents Tourism 4 (2019), pp. 12-24.
Philip Seaton, ‘On the trail of The Last Samurai (II): Hobbiton vs Uruti Valley’, International Journal of Contents Tourism 4 (2019), pp. 25-31.
Philip Seaton, ‘On the trail of The Last Samurai (III): Himeji and Kagoshima’, International Journal of Contents Tourism 4 (2019), pp. 32-44.
Philip Seaton, ‘The “Shiba view of history” and Japan-Korea relations: Reading, watching and traveling Clouds Above the Hill’ in Rumi Sakamoto and Stephen Epstein (eds) Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan-Korea Relations, London, Routledge 2021, pp. 48-60.
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