Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan

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The total number of foreign tourists received in countries throughout the world was 530 million in 1995. That number broke through the 1 billion mark for the first time in 2012, at 1,035,000,000. In 2015, it reached 1,180,000,000. According to Anthony Elliott and John Urry, modern society has been characterized as being "mobile", and within that we are also living "mobile lives". In modern society, flows of people, things, capital, information, ideas and technologies are constantly occurring, and as they are merging like a violently rushing stream, what could be termed a landscape of mobilities has appeared. Social realities are in flux and are transforming to become different than they were before. This volume will expand the inquiry of tourism mobilities comprehensively and clearly from the fields of humanities and social sciences. In particular, tourism mobilities has been actively investigated up to now in the UK, US, Europe and Australia, but even though the Japanese body of literature contains a great many excellent studies of Japanese examples, there are almost no English-language articles presenting their results. Publishing examples of Japanese tourism mobilities will not only foster new and exciting lines of inquiry for existing and future research on tourism mobilities, but will also have implications for humanities and social sciences throughout the world. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Series editor foreword Introduction: the significance of research on tourism mobilities and related issues The age of mobilities The 'mobility turn' in the human and social sciences Significance of research on tourism mobilities Issues in research on tourism mobilities Locality Performativity Overview of this volume Notes References Chapter 1: Seeking sensuous mobilities: tourist quests for familiarityand alterity Introduction Sensing while mobile Comfortable and predictable sensations Enlivening Conclusion References Chapter 2: Tourism, ‘nowstalgia’ and the (non)experience of place Introduction Space, place and the tourist experience Tourist photography: from cameras to smartphones The digitalisation of photography Smartphone photography and 'nowstalgic' tourist experiences Conclusion References Chapter 3: New tourism and social transformation in postmodernity: sociological examination of Japanese new tourism Introduction Pseudo-event and staged authenticity Ironies of The Beach and new tourism Are young travellers of The Beach new tourists? Characteristics of new tourism Similarity between The Beach's new tourists and new tourism Change of Japanese tourism and the vision of new tourism Modernisation of tourism and new tourism's political meaning in Japan Japanese tourism policy after the Second World War The "failure" of Resort Law and structural reflexivity Launching of the Tourism Agency and new tourism New tourism led by consumers Social change and new tourism Sociocultural change Sociocultural change and new tourism Socioeconomic change and tourism: post-Fordism and new tourism Is postmodern tourism liberational or repressive? Conclusion: is a heterotopia of tourism possible? Notes References Chapter 4: Late tourism and ‘boomerang’ mobility in Japan The end of tourism in Japan? Post-tourism in late modern society Arrow and boomerang in tourism mobility Conclusion Notes References Chapter 5: Mobility turn in rural districts in Japan: from “Kankō (tourism)” to “Kankei (relationships)” Productionism in post-war Japan "Critical turn" against productionism "Cultural turn": attention to rural matters and rural representation "Material quality and consumptional turn": from stagnation of Green Tourism to agricultural diversification Mobility turn: diversification of "mobility" From “Kanko−” (tourism) to “Kankei” (relatonships) Case study Sakura Village Office Camp (SVOP) Functions of SVOP SVOP's actual state of use Catalyst of rural migration Reasons for migration Conclusion Acknowledgement References Chapter 6: The new mobile assemblages created by Pokémon GO Introduction The mobile assemblage perspective The features of the “smartphone-player-Pokémon GO” mobile assemblage The mobile assemblage of the "Pokémon Go-player-place" Conclusion Supplementary note Notes References Chapter 7: The roots and routes of Matryoshka: souvenirs and tourist mobility in Russia, Japan, and the world Introduction: Russian Matryoshki in Japan Souvenirs on the move The roots and development of Matryoshki Travelling Matryoshki: nesting doll routes Conclusion Notes References Chapter 8: “Transference of traditions” in tourism: local identities as images reflected in infinity mirrors Introduction Transformation and invention of traditions in tourism Case study: the Yosakoi Festival Local identities as images reflected in infinity mirrors: with reference to the ideas of Freud and Lacan The fluidization of local identities: tourism is expanding non-originality Notes References Chapter 9: Marathon mobilities: a western tourist perspective on Japanese marathons Introduction Tourism (running) mobilities Marathon running in Japan Ethnographic vignette 1: Kyoto Marathon Vignette 2: Tokyo Marathon Conclusion References Chapter 10: Performative nationalism in Japan’s inbound tourism television programmes: YOU, Sekai! (The world), and the tourism nation Introduction Making a tourism nation: Japan's inbound tourism policy between 2003 and 2016 Performative nationalism in Japan: a brief history YOU and Sekai! Unpacking Japan's inbound tourism television programmes Methods and data collection The performative 'good tourist': welcoming Western cultural tourism It's not about 'You': rediscovering Japaneseness through the Other The other Others: on the performative suppression of difference Conclusion Notes References Chapter 11: Shibuya Crossing as a non-tourist site: performative participation and re-staging Introduction: a strange tourist site Shibuya as a staged city The death and life of great Shibuya Shibuya as a non-tourist site Participatory tourism Performativity of tourist performance Participatory turn Re-staged Shibuya References Chapter 12: Mobilising pilgrim bodily space: the contest between authentic and folk pilgrimage in the interwar period Introduction Uniqueness found in looseness Between modern tourism and pilgrimage: new experiences along the circuit Representations of religious bodies and spirituality Conclusion Notes References Chapter 13: Digital media as “social spaces” of tourism: the Japanese cases of travelling material things Introduction The effect of mobility on "social spaces" in the present age "Social spaces" in the present age The age of mobility: divergence and convergence of mobility-scapes Media as social spaces in the "age of mobility" Digital media as "social spaces" A focus on "platforms" Tourism mobility realized by "platforms" The significance of "platforms" to tourism When material things go on holiday Concluding remarks: remaining questions Supplementary note Notes References Index