Japanese tourism and travel culture / edited by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis and Okpyo Moon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guichard-Anguis, Sylvie, 1951-

Moon, Okpyo, 1950-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Japan anthropology workshop series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers--Japan.

Travelers.

Japan.

Tourism--Japan.

Tourism.

National characteristics, Japanese.

Physical Description:

xv, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, and exploring how this has permeated the perceptions and traditions of Japanese society.

It considers the diverse dimensions of modern tourism including appropriation and consumption of history, nostalgia, identity, domesticated foreignness, and the search for authenticity and invention of tradition.

Japanese people are one of the most widely travelling peoples in the world both historically and in contemporary times. What may be understood as incipient mass tourism started around the seventeenth century in various forms (including religious pilgrimages) long before it became a prevalent cultural phenomenon in the West. Within Asia, Japan has been the main tourist-sending society since the beginning of the twentieth century, when it started colonizing Asian countries. In 2005, some 17.8 million Japanese travelled overseas across Europe, Asia, the South Pacific and America. In recent times, however, tourist demands are fast growing in other Asian countries such as Korea and China. Japan is not only consuming other Asian societies and cultures, it is also being consumed by them in tourist contexts. This book considers the patterns of travelling of the Japanese, examining travel inside and outside the Japanese archipelago and how tourist demands inside influence and shape patterns of travel outside the country. Overall, this book offers important insights for understanding the phenomenon of tourism on the one hand and the nature of Japanese society and culture on the other.

Contents:

Introduction: The culture of travel (tabi no bunka) and Japanese tourism / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis 1

Part I Travelling history in the present 19

1 The past and the other in the present: Kokunai kokusaika kanko - domestic international tourism / Nelson Graburn 21

2 The heroic Edo-ic: Travelling the History Highway in today's Tokugawa Japan / Millie Creighton 37

3 Japanese inns (ryokan) as producers of Japanese identity / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis 76

Part II Travel in tradition, time and fantasy 103

4 Meanings of tradition in contemporary Japanese domestic tourism / Markus Oedewald 105

5 Fantasy travel in time and space: A New Japanese phenomenon? / Joy Hendry 129

Part III Travelling the familiar overseas 145

6 Japanese tourists in Korea: Colonial and post-colonial encounters / Okpyo Moon 147

7 The Japanese encounter with the South: Japanese tourists in Palau / Shinji Yamashita 172

8 The search for the real thing: Japanese tourism to Britain / Bronwen Surman 193

9 All roads lead to home: Japanese culinary tourism in Italy / Merry I. White 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415470018

0415470013

9780203886670

0203886674

OCLC:

227922678