Sylvie Guichard-Anguis

Harumi Befu

Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies.

Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America

Globalizing Japan

Okpyo Moon

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 17th century in various forms (including religious pilgrimages) long before it became a prevalent cultural phenomenon in the West. Within Asia, Japan has long remained the main tourist sending society since the beginning of the 20th century when it started colonising 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 draws important insights for understanding the phenomenon of tourism on the one hand and the nature of Japanese society and culture on the other.

Japanese Tourism and Travel Culture

Maria Gravari-Barbas

Le patrimoine, construction sociale de la modernité européenne, connaît depuis la fin des années 70 un élargissement extraordinaire. L'emploi du mot patrimoine agit dans bien des cas comme une référence incontestable, incontournable, exclusive de toute critique. Elle clôt les débats quand elle ne devient pas tout simplement incantatoire. Mais qu'en est-il hors de l'Europe ? Le patrimoine fait-il l'objet de la même attention, le mot recouvre-t-il les mêmes contenus ? Peu d'études ont été consacrées à ce sujet. Le livre rassemble les chercheurs spécialisés dans différentes disciplines et de nombreux pays. Ils y confrontent la diversité des pratiques et des sens patrimoniaux dans un monde où les distances ne cessent de raccourcir et qu'il est urgent d'appréhender dans toute sa complexité et donc sa richesse.

Sylvie Guichard-Anguis

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