War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan (Routledge Focus on Asia)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Periods of Japanese history
Chapter 1 Theorizing war-related contents tourism
Part I From myths to the middle ages
	Chapter 2 The narrative worlds of ancient wars: Travelling heroes in Kojiki
	Chapter 3 The Mongol invasions of Japan and Tsushima tourism
	Chapter 4 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and contents tourism in Aizu-Wakamatsu
	Chapter 5 History girls and women’s war-related contents tourism
Part II The rise and fall of the Tokugawas
	Chapter 6 Satsuma’s invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1609 and Okinawa tourism
	Chapter 7 War-related narratives and contents tourism during the ‘Tokugawa peace’
	Chapter 8 Tōken Ranbu and samurai swords as tourist attractions
	Chapter 9 Castles and castle towns in Japanese tourism
	Chapter 10 Festivals of war: Travelling the Shinsengumi in 2019
Part III Imperial Japan
	Chapter 11 Hokkaido as imperial acquisition and the Ainu in popular culture and tourism
	Chapter 12 The Russo-Japanese War and (contents) tourism
	Chapter 13 Tourism relating to the new culture introduced by First World War German POWs
	Chapter 14 Theatre (contents) tourism and war as a backdrop to romance
Part IV The Asia-Pacific War
	Chapter 15 Yasukuni Shrine’s Yūshūkan museum as a site of contents tourism
	Chapter 16 The sense of belonging created by In This Corner of the World
	Chapter 17 Travelling Grave of the Fireflies: The gap between creators’ intentions and audiences’/tourists’ interpretations
	Chapter 18 Tours of Tokkōtai (kamikaze) training bases
	Chapter 19 Repatriation and the enka ballad Ganpeki no haha
Part V Postwar Japan
	Chapter 20 Kantai Collection and entertainmentization of the Second World War
	Chapter 21 The war metaphors underpinning Mizuki Shigeru yōkai tourism
	Chapter 22 Shin Godzilla: Tourism consuming images of JSDF, kaiju characters, and destroyed sites
	Chapter 23 Fantasy wars and their real-life inspirations: Tourism and international conflicts caused by Attack on Titan
	Conclusions: Patterns of war-related (contents) tourism
Index