Significance of Holding Sporting Events in Hiroshima, a “City of Peace”: Creation and Dissemination of Messages of Peace

• Takashi WADA

  県立広島大学経営情報学部教授

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 平和都市広島におけるスポーツイベント開催の意義―「平和」の創造と発信―

Abstract

This paper discusses the significance of holding sporting events in the city of Hiroshima from the following four perspectives: as an originator of messages of peace; efforts to create peace; the effects of peace education; and citizens’ enlightenment. The results of my investigation showed that holding sporting events in Hiroshima, which is known worldwide as the first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it and as a destination for dark tourism, is of great significance for efforts to achieve world peace. It is also effective for cities like Hiroshima to promote the policy of world peace. Those efforts combine sports tourism by holding athletic events that welcome participants and spectators and dark tourism to learn from humanity’s negative legacy. In addition, enhancing education programs on sports and peace is important to make new forms of tourism effective.

Journal

• E-journal GEO

  E-journal GEO 16 (2), 310-326, 2021

  The Association of Japanese Geographers

Keywords

• sporting event
• peace
• dark tourism
• place
• city of Hiroshima

Details

• CRID: 1390007912126318976
• NII Article ID: 130008088402
• DOI: 10.4157/ejgeo.16.310
• ISSN: 18808107
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ejgeo/16/2/16_310/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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