Japanese popular culture and contents tourism
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Japanese popular culture and contents tourism
Routledge, 2018, c2017
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Available at 12 libraries
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"First published 2014 by Routledge, ... first issued in paperback 2018"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Amidst the boom in global interest in Japanese popular culture, the utilization of popular culture to induce tourism domestically and internationally has been central to the "Cool Japan" strategy and, since 2005, government policy for local community revitalization. This book presents four main case studies of contents tourism: the phenomenon of "anime pilgrimage" to sites appearing in animated film; the travel behaviours and "pop-spiritualism" of female history fans to heritage sites; the collaboration between local community, fans and copyright holders that underpinned an anime-induced tourism boom in a small town north of Tokyo; and the large-scale economic impacts of tourism induced by NHK's annual samurai period drama (Taiga Drama). It is the first major collection of articles published in English about media-induced tourism in Japan using the "contents tourism" approach. This book will be of particular interest to students and researchers of media and tourism studies in Asia. This book was previously published as a special issue of Japan Forum.
Table of Contents
1. Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism 2. Otaku tourism and the anime pilgrimage phenomenon in Japan 3. Rekijo, pilgrimage and 'pop-spiritualism': pop-culture-induced heritage tourism of/for young women 4. Contents tourism and local community response: Lucky star and collaborative anime-induced tourism in Washimiya 5. Taiga dramas and tourism: historical contents as sustainable tourist resources
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