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Contents tourism in Japan : pilgrimages to "sacred sites" of popular culture / Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae Jang.

Title
Contents tourism in Japan : pilgrimages to "sacred sites" of popular culture / Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae Jang.
Author
Seaton, Philip A., 1972-
Publication
Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Yamamura, Takayoshi, 1971-
  • Sugawa, Akiko
  • Jang, Kyungjae
Description
xiii, 306 pages illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 24 cm
Summary
"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.
Subject
  • Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
  • Heritage tourism > Japan
  • Popular culture > Japan
  • Historic sites > Japan
  • Sacred space > Japan
  • Heritage tourism
  • Historic sites
  • Popular culture
  • Sacred space
  • Travel
  • Japan > Description and travel
  • Japan > History, Local
  • Japan
Genre/Form
Local history
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-286) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The players and patterns of contents tourism -- Canonized texts and heritage : pre-1945 contents -- Community-building through contents : 1945-2000 -- Digital age contents tourism : 2000-2015.
ISBN
  • 9781604979732
  • 1604979739
LCCN
^^2016054801
OCLC
  • 961250677
  • SCSB-11850985
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library