Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: The Culture of Travel (tabi no bunka) and Japanese Tourism Sylvie Guichard-Anguis Part 1: Travelling History in the Present 1. The Past and the Other in the Present: Kokunai Kokusaika Kanko- Domestic International Tourism Nelson Graburn 2. The Heroic Edo-ic: Travelling the History Highway in Today's Tokugawa Japan Millie Creighton 3. Japanese Inns (Ryokan) as Producers of Japanese Identity Sylvie Guichard-Anguis Part 2: Travel in Tradition, Time and Fantasy 4. Meanings of Tradition in Contemporary Japanese Domestic Tourism Markus Oedewald 5. Fantasy Travel in Time and Space: A New Japanese Phenomenon? Joy Hendry Part 3: Travelling the Familiar Overseas 6. Japanese Tourists in Korea: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters Okpyo Moon 7. The Japanese Encounter with the South: Japanese Tourists in Palau Shinji Yamashita 8. The Search For The Real Thing - Japanese Tourism to Britain Bronwen Surman 9. All Roads Lead to Home: Japanese Culinary Tourism in Italy Merry I. White