‘Kamikaze’ heritage tourism in Japan: a pathway to peace and understanding?
公開日 2020年11月18日
国際観光学研究センター（CTR）副センター長で、本学特別主幹教授であるRichard Sharpley教授（University of Central Lancashire）による日本における遺産観光に関する論文が、学術誌「Journal of Heritage Tourism」に掲載されました。
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タイトル
‘Kamikaze’ heritage tourism in Japan: a pathway to peace and understanding?
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著者
Richard Sharpley, Lancashire School of Business & Enterprise, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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書誌事項
Journal of Heritage Tourism, 15:6, 709-726
DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2020.1758117
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743873X.2020.1758117
*Scopus収録ジャーナル
https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100455460
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要旨
Reflecting the wider belief that international tourism offers the opportunity to encourage peace and understanding amongst peoples and nations, one objective of Japan’s recent tourism development policy is the enhancement of mutual understanding and the promotion of international peace. The purpose of this paper is to consider the extent to which this objective is achievable, particularly in the context of continuing controversy surrounding the country’s confrontation of its twentieth century military heritage in general and its role in the Pacific War in particular. Based on research at two ‘difficult’ heritage sites, Chiran Peace Museum in Kagoshima Prefecture and Yūshūkan War Museum in Tokyo, it explores specifically how the kamikaze phenomenon is commemorated and interpreted for international visitors, in so doing revealing a significant degree of dissonance at both sites. Not only is a selective narrative of heroic sacrifice presented within a wider revisionist history of the Pacific War but also no attempt is made to acknowledge the prevailing cultural context that might underpin a more nuanced understanding of the kamikaze. Hence, the paper concludes that a meaningful opportunity to enhance international understanding has been missed.
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キーワード
Tourism and peace, Japan, difficult heritage, dissonance, Chiran peace museum, Yūshūkan War Museum
