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Materials relating to Chapters 20-23 of War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan.
Chapter 20: “Kantai Collection and entertainmentization of the Second World War”, Kyungjae Jang
Read the chapter here.
Kantai Collection homepage
Chapter 21: “The war metaphors underpinning Mizuki Shigeru yōkai tourism”, Qiaodan Wang and Philip Seaton
Read the chapters here.
Mizuki Productions (official website).
Chapter 22: “Shin Godzilla: tourism consuming images of JSDF, kaiju characters, and destroyed sites”, Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny and Takayoshi Yamamura
Read the chapter here.
For an introduction to the Japan Self-Defense Force (JSDF) see the official version in Defense White Papers or the Manga Versions.
Chapter 23: “Fantasy wars and their real-life inspirations: tourism and international conflicts caused by Attack on Titan“, Ryo Koarai and Takayoshi Yamamura
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Other materials about this period
Journal of War & Culture Studies special edition, 2019, Vol. 12(1), War, Popular Culture, and Contents Tourism in East Asia.
Yamamura, Takayoshi. 2017 ‘Cooperation Between Anime Producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force: Creating Fantasy and/or Propaganda?’, Journal of War & Culture Studies, Vol. 12(1), pp.8-23.
Carlos Ramírez-Moreno and Dale Leorke. 2021. ‘Promoting Yokosuka through videogame tourism: the Shenmue sacred spot guide map’ in Dale Leorke and Marcus Owens (eds) Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City, Routledge, pp. 38-63.
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