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Within Japan's contested memories of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45), the depiction of soldiers, sailors and pilots in leading roles within cinematic/televisual representations of the war usually falls into one of three main patterns: 'military heroes' participating in a noble (albeit losing) war; 'good Japanese' facing down villainous militarists; and 'victim-heroes' suffering amidst the uncontrollable carnage of war. A recurrent trope, particularly within the representation of 'victim-heroes', is a focus on the soldier's life and/or talents away from the military: the soldier as artist, scholar, lover, and athlete. Through a short history of sport in wartime Japan and six case studies of soldier-athletes – two with 'inconvenient life histories', two with 'usable life histories', and two (semi-)fictionalized characters – this chapter establishes how sport is used to humanize soldier characters and thereby pull the overall narrative of the film towards a pacifist message of the inhumanity of and suffering during war.

Chapter 18: This chapter presents how the war was experienced on the home front in Japan, and how that experience is remembered today. Taking an elongated periodization of the Second World War from the Manchurian Incident of 1931 to the end of the Tokyo Trials in 1948, it discusses the Japanese war experience in three main phases: early victories (to 1942); the tide turns (to 1945); and repatriations and reckonings (to 1948). The key ways in which the war affected the lives of civilians will be discussed, including war work, conscription, settler life, civilians in the battle zone (Okinawa, Karafuto), air raids, repatriation, and the struggle for survival post-defeat. By continuing the discussion up to the end of the Tokyo Trials, the chapter presents the mechanisms by which narratives of Japanese civilian victimhood became so prominent in Japanese memories of the conflict by discussing how Japanese war guilt was addressed at the Trials and beyond. Finally, the chapter discusses the contemporary representation of the civilian experience in Japanese war and peace museums.

"This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations.

Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book's chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroot challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea.

Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the 'popular' are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely."

Periods of Japanese history -- Theorizing war-related contents tourism / Philip Seaton and Takayoshi Yamamura -- The narrative worlds of ancient wars : travelling heroes in Kojiki / Takayoshi Yamamura -- The Mongol invasions of Japan and Tsushima tourism / Kyungjae Jang -- Sekiro : shadows die twice and contents tourism in Aizu-Wakamatsu / Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny -- History girls and women's war-related contents tourism / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada -- Satsuma's invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1609 and Okinawa tourism / Kyungjae Jang -- War-related narratives and contents tourism during the 'Tokugawa peace' / Takayoshi Yamamura -- Tōken Ranbu and samurai swords as tourist attractions / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada -- Castles and castle towns in Japanese tourism / Yosuke Fujiki and Hitoshi Nakai -- Festivals of war : travelling the Shinsengumi in 2019 -- Hokkaido as imperial acquisition and the Ainu in popular culture and tourism / Ryo Koarai -- The Russo-Japanese War and (contents) tourism / Philip Seaton -- Tourism relating to the new culture introduced by First World War German POWs / Kyungjae Jang -- Theatre (contents) tourism and war as a backdrop to romance / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada -- Yasukuni Shrine's Yūshūkan museum as a site of contents tourism / Philip Seaton and Takayoshi Yamamura -- The sense of belonging created by In this Corner of the World / Luli van der Does -- Travelling Grave of the Fireflies : the gap between creators' intentions and audiences'/tourists' interpretations / Takayoshi Yamamura -- Tours of Tokkōtai (kamikaze) training bases / Luli van der Does -- Repatriation and the enka ballad Ganpeki no haha / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada -- Kantai Collection and entertainmentization of the Second World War / Kyungjae Jang -- The war metaphors underpinning Mizuki Shigeru yōkai tourism / Qiaodan Wang and Philip Seaton -- Shin Godzilla : tourism consuming images of JSDF, kaiju characters, and destroyed sites / Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny and Takayoshi Yamamura -- Fantasy wars and their real-life inspirations : tourism and international conflicts caused by Attack on Titan / Ryo Koarai and Takayoshi Yamamura -- Conclusions : patterns of war-related (contents) tourism / Takayoshi Yamamura and Philip Seaton.

This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does visitation to war-related sites transition from being an act of mourning or commemorative pilgrimage into an act of devotion or fan pilgrimage? Representing the collaboration of ten expert researchers of Japanese popular culture and travel, it develops a theoretical framework for understanding war-related contents tourism and demonstrates the framework in practice via numerous short case studies across a millennium of warfare in Japan including: the tales of heroic deities in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, AD 712), the Edo poetry of Matsuo Basho, and the Pacific war through lens of popular media such as the animated film the Grave of the Fireflies. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as more general issues of war and peace in Japan, East Asia and beyond.

"Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from 'demystifying the Japanese', to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto's notion of 'cosmopolitan methodology' to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies"--

The contents tourism of Jane Austen's American fans / Philip Seaton -- Conceptualising contents brandscapes : the Brontë brand / Maree Thyne & Gretchen Larsen -- The Witcher novels and games-inspired tourism in Poland / Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny -- Traveling Heidi : international contents tourism induced by Japanese anime / Takayoshi Yamamura -- The Cotswolds and children's literature in Japanese fantasy : the case of Castle Combe / Catherine Butler -- Yōkai tourism in Japan and Taiwan / Shinobu Myoki -- Contents tourism and religious imagination / Kyungjae Jang -- The 2.5-dimensional theatre as a communication site : non-site-specific theatre tourism / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada -- Indonesian cosplay tourism / Ranny Rastati -- Outbound tourism motivated by domestic films : contentsized Koreanness in Thai movies and tourism to Korea / Sueun Kim -- Contents tourism in plane sight / Christopher Hood -- Breaking Benjamin : a woman's pilgrimage to New Mexico / Stefanie Benjamin -- From banjo to basho : poets, contents and tourism / Sue Beeton -- Sustainable contents tourism in the 21st century / Philip Seaton.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on transliterations -- Introduction -- Part I Borderland societies pre-1945 -- 1 Japanese society on Karafuto -- 2 Borders, borderlands and migration in Sakhalin and the Priamur region: a comparative study -- Part II Postwar population movements -- 3 Occupation-era Hokkaido and the emergence of the Karafuto repatriate: the role of repatriate leaders -- 4 Soviet rule in south Sakhalin and the Japanese community, 1945–1949 -- 5 Returning from Harbin: Northeast Asia, 1945 -- Part III Reconstructing narratives of Karafuto/Sakhalin -- 6 Memories beyond borders: Karafuto sites of memory in Hokkaido -- 7 Homecoming visits to Karafuto: how is home (furusato) reconstructed after a long absence? -- 8 Russia's â€last barren islands': the southern Kurils and the territorialization of regional memory -- Part IV Postwar lives and returning â€home' -- 9 Dreams of returning to the homeland: Koreans in Karafuto and Sakhalin -- 10 Multi-layered identities of returnees in their â€historical homeland': returnees from Sakhalin -- 11 Language, identity and educational issues of â€repatriates' from Sakhalin -- Appendix: a chronology of Karafuto/Sakhalin.

"In 2005, the Japanese government recognized in official documents for the first time that Japanese popular culture had another potential: to increase international visitor numbers to Japan and energize the domestic tourism industry. The term used in Japan to describe this form of tourism induced by popular culture is kontentsu tsurizumu, 'contents tourism.' Contents tourism is defined as travel behavior motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels, and computer games. This book presents a comprehensive theoretical and historical overview of the phenomenon of contents tourism in Japan. It is a groundbreaking book in an important and rapidly emerging area of scholarly, media, political and business interest. It will be of interest primarily to scholars and practitioners with a specialization in tourism and media, but also to those studying contemporary popular culture in Japan and East Asia"--Provided by publisher