Philip Seaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 247932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Seaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaton |
| SIGNATURE | SEATON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hokkaido University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3106-0570 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Theorizing war-related contents tourism
This chapter establishes a theoretical framework for war-related contents tourism. It articulates how war transitions from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture, and how visitation to war-related sites transitions from being an act of mourning or commemorative pilgrimage into an act of devotion or fan pilgrimage. Three main tourism imaginaries are identified: imaginaries of (subjective) war experie…
War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare.It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does visitation to war-related sites transition from being an …
Travelling Heidi: International Contents Tourism Induced by Japanese Anime
Introduction: Contents Tourism Beyond Anime Tourism
Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond.Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this b…
Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences
The term 'contents tourism' has been defined as 'travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture...'. This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research
The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia by Hiro Saito
Reviewed by: The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia by Hiro Saito Philip Seaton The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia. By Hiro Saito. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. 296 pages. Hardcover, $62.00. The intractable history problem (rekishi mondai) in East Asia seems to get ever more complicated as the Asia-Pacific War slips further into the past. With each unsuccessful attempt at “finally…
Media Theory in Japan, edited by Marc Steinberg & Alexander Zahlten
Kamikaze Museums and Contents Tourism
The kamikaze have been the subject of dozens of films and television dramas in post-war Japan. The genre blends human dramas of 'tragic heroes' going to their deaths with war action entertainment. Many commemorative sites to the kamikaze also exist, particularly around the bases in Kyushu from where they flew their missions. From the 1990s, films triggered additional tourism to the museums; the museums introduced displays or merchandise related t…
War, Popular Culture, and Contents Tourism in East Asia
This introductory essay to the special edition War, Popular Culture, and Contents Tourism in East Asia presents how contents tourism, defined as ‘travel behavior motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels, and computer games’, is an increasingly useful concept in understanding war-related tourism in East Asia. The …
Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism
Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Amidst the boom in global interest in Japanese popular culture, the utilization of popular culture to induce tourism domestically and internationally has been central to the "Cool Japan" strategy and, since 2005, government policy for local …
Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Sneider
Reviewed by: Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Sneider Philip Seaton (bio) Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War. By Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2016. xii, 356 pages. $85.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. Particularly since the mid-1990s, there has been rapid growth in the English-language literature on memories of the Asia-Pacific War. Div…
Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory , Edited by Mikael S. Adolphson and Anne Commons
"Lovable Losers: the Heike in Action and Memory, Edited by Mikael S. Adolphson and Anne Commons." Japan Forum, 29(3), pp. 425–426
The Mediatisation of Culture: Japanese Contents Tourism and Pop Culture
This chapter attempts to synthesize the Japanese as well as English language literature regarding the links between pop culture contents and tourism, and thereby provide a more nuanced understanding of media-induced tourism in the twenty-first century, which the nations of East Asia will play a huge role in shaping. The chapter examines the growing influence of popular culture on tourism in Japan, particularly in relation to film as an exemplar o…
The Hokkaido Summit as a Springboard for Grassroots Initiatives: The ‘Peace, Reconciliation & Civil Society’ Symposium
This article can be read together with “Indigenous at Last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir.” The Indigenous Peoples Summit (IPS) was not the only NGO conference that took place in connection with the G8 Summit in Hokkaido in July 2008. This article discusses another conference, “Peace, Reconciliation and Civil Society: Toward a Sustainable Peace in East Asia and Europe,” which Oda Hiroshi, an anthropolo…
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border
Introduction, Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton Part I: Borderland Societies Pre-1945 1. Japanese Society on Karafuto, Taisho Nakayama 2. Borders, Borderlands and Migration in Sakhalin and the Priamur Region: a Comparative Study, Igor Saveliev Part II: Postwar Population Movements 3. Occupation-era Hokkaido and the Emergence of the Karafuto Repatriate: the Role of Repatriate Leaders, Jonathan Bull 4. Soviet Rule in South Sakhalin and the Japan…
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto / Sakhalin
Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History
Journal Article Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History Get access Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History, by Jason G. Karlin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 320 pp., $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-8248-3826-3) Philip SEATON Philip SEATON Hokkaido University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Iss…
The Nationalist Assault on Japan's Local Peace Museums: The Conversion of Peace Osaka
In April 2015, Peace Osaka, a publicly-funded museum famous for its hard-hitting exhibits about Japan's wars of the 1930s and 1940s, reopened after a "renewal". In the new exhibits, discussion of Japanese aggression and atrocities has been completely removed and the stance of the museum has changed from progressive to conservative. Based on a photographic record of the pre- and post-"renewal" exhibits, this essay discusses in what ways and why Pe…
Taiga dramas and tourism: Historical Contents as Sustainable Tourist Resources
Taiga dramas are one of the flagship events of the Japanese television year. These historical drama series, broadcast on NHK General over the course of a year in Sunday evening prime time, have induced large-scale tourism to sites related to the events depicted in the dramas. This article investigates the scopes and natures of the tourism booms induced by two dramas set in the Bakumatsu (1853–1868) period: Shinsengumi! in 2004 and Ryōma-den in 20…
Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism – Introduction
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism’ places the four articles in theoretical and contextual perspective. Contents tourism is a theoretical concept that originated in Japan. Its closest counterpart in the English-language literature at present is film-induced tourism or media-induced tourism. Contents tourism is placed within the theoretical context of cultural tourism and the rationale for its …
Beachheads: War, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa
In 1945, Okinawa was the site of a devastating battle during the closing months of World War II, yet by the end of the twentieth century it had been transformed into a major tourist destination oft
Remembering Biowarfare Unit 731 Through Musical Activism: A Performance of the Choral Work The Devil's Gluttony
Kitara is Sapporo's state-of-the-art concert hall in the middle of picturesque Nakajima Park. On 2 July 2014 I went there with different expectations than usual. I was not going to hear a professional orchestra playing a masterpiece of the classical repertoire, but an amateur choir singing a little-known choral work called Akuma no Hōshoku (The Devil's Gluttony), composed by Ikebe Shinichiro with words by Morimura Seiichi, a leading novelist. The…
The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine
Takahashi Tetsuya's "The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine, " is among the most important statements to emerge from the debate over Yasukuni Shrine, historical memory and war nationalism.Japan Focus is pleased to present chapter seven of Naoko Shimazu, ed., Nationalisms in Japan. Philip Seaton is the translator.We thank Takahashi, Shimazu, Seaton and Routledge for their cooperation in publishing this article.Find a podcast of Takahashi Tet…
Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism – Introduction
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism’ places the four articles in theoretical and contextual perspective. Contents tourism is a theoretical concept that originated in Japan. Its closest counterpart in the English-language literature at present is film-induced tourism or media-induced tourism. Contents tourism is placed within the theoretical context of cultural tourism and the rationale for its …
Taiga dramas and tourism: Historical Contents as Sustainable Tourist Resources
Taiga dramas are one of the flagship events of the Japanese television year. These historical drama series, broadcast on NHK General over the course of a year in Sunday evening prime time, have induced large-scale tourism to sites related to the events depicted in the dramas. This article investigates the scopes and natures of the tourism booms induced by two dramas set in the Bakumatsu (1853–1868) period: Shinsengumi! in 2004 and Ryōma-den in 20…
Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism
Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Amidst the boom in global interest in Japanese popular culture, the utilization of popular culture to induce tourism domestically and internationally has been central to the "Cool Japan" strategy and, since 2005, government policy for local …
Kamikaze Museums and Contents Tourism
The kamikaze have been the subject of dozens of films and television dramas in post-war Japan. The genre blends human dramas of 'tragic heroes' going to their deaths with war action entertainment. Many commemorative sites to the kamikaze also exist, particularly around the bases in Kyushu from where they flew their missions. From the 1990s, films triggered additional tourism to the museums; the museums introduced displays or merchandise related t…
War, Popular Culture, and Contents Tourism in East Asia
This introductory essay to the special edition War, Popular Culture, and Contents Tourism in East Asia presents how contents tourism, defined as ‘travel behavior motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels, and computer games’, is an increasingly useful concept in understanding war-related tourism in East Asia. The …
Reporting the ‘comfort women’ issue, 1991–1992: Japan's contested war memories in the national press
This paper analyses the nature of war-related reporting in Japanese newspapers through a survey of how the quality national newspapers reported the eruption of the ‘comfort women’ issue in 1991–1992. It challenges the widespread assumption about the ‘homogeneity’ of the Japanese press, which is based in critiques of press clubs, and illustrates how Japanese newspapers have developed distinct ideological positions in war-related reporting. The pap…
Reporting the 2001 textbook and Yasukuni Shrine controversies: Japanese war memory and commemoration in the British media
In the summer of 2001 there were two major controversies concerning Japanese memory and commemoration of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: a textbook controversy triggered by the nationalist group, the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (Tsukurukai) and a row triggered by Prime Minister Koizumi's worship at Yasukuni Shrine. This article presents a critique of how the two controversies were reported in the British quality med…
Shampoo for extra damage: Making sense of Japanized English
English is used extensively for promotional purposes in Japan. Often, it is incorrect or unnatural and becomes a focus for foreign ridicule or complaints about language 'abuse'. The phenomenon is called Japanized English or, more colloquially, Japlish or Engrish.This paper explores the motivation for using English for promotion and shows it as a rational promotional strategy where English is used as a medium for image creation through the associa…
Reporting the 2001 textbook and Yasukuni Shrine controversies: Japanese war memory and commemoration in the British media
In the summer of 2001 there were two major controversies concerning Japanese memory and commemoration of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: a textbook controversy triggered by the nationalist group, the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (Tsukurukai) and a row triggered by Prime Minister Koizumi's worship at Yasukuni Shrine. This article presents a critique of how the two controversies were reported in the British quality med…
Reporting the ‘comfort women’ issue, 1991–1992: Japan's contested war memories in the national press
This paper analyses the nature of war-related reporting in Japanese newspapers through a survey of how the quality national newspapers reported the eruption of the ‘comfort women’ issue in 1991–1992. It challenges the widespread assumption about the ‘homogeneity’ of the Japanese press, which is based in critiques of press clubs, and illustrates how Japanese newspapers have developed distinct ideological positions in war-related reporting. The pap…
Japan's Contested War Memories: The 'Memory Rifts' in Historical Consciousness of World War II
Japan's Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War history. Focusing particularly on 1972 onwards, the period starts with the normalization of relations with China and the return of Okinawa to Japan in 1972, and ends with the sixtieth anniversary commemorations. Analyzing the variety of ways in which the Japanese people narrate…
Family, Friends and Furusato: "Home" in the Formation of Japanese War Memories
This article examines how issues "closest to home"-family, friends and furusato (home town/area)-affect Japanese war memories. It draws upon testimony illustrating the importance of "home" and analyzes how family and local identities impinge on the evolution of cultural memory and war commemoration. Examples are drawn from Hokkaido.In 1938, Ito Yoshimitsu enlisted in the Sapporo Tsukisamu 25th regiment, part of the Seventh (Hokkaido) Division of …
The Hokkaido Summit as a Springboard for Grassroots Initiatives: The “Peace, Reconciliation & Civil Society” Symposium
In recent years, the G8 Summit has gone beyond being simply a gathering of world political leaders. The Summit is an occasion for a wide variety of NGOs, activists and civic groups from across the globe to congregate and discuss a multitude of issues. When the location of the 2008 G8 Summit was announced, it was clear that the environment would be a key theme under discussion. As the Hokkaido Toyako Summit (7-9 July 2008) drew closer, rising fuel…
The G8 Summit as "Local Event" in the Hokkaido Media
The livelihood of Iwahara Yoshimi, a lettuce farmer living a few kilometers from The Windsor Hotel, was threatened by the G8 Summit. A temporary heliport had been set up by the Japanese Self Defense Forces (SDF) adjacent to his fields as part of the security and logistical preparations for the summit. The helicopters were blowing soil over his crop and lettuce heads were being damaged by the strong gusts. On learning that the heliport would be bu…
Alternative Summits, Alternative Perspectives: Beyond the 2008 Hokkaido G8 Summit
The Hokkaido Toyako Summit 2008 was held from 7-9 July 2008 in the picturesque hot spring resort town of Toyako. This series of four essays critically evaluates the contributions and limits of the Toyako Summit to ongoing international discourse and action on some of the pressing issues of our time. In particular, it focuses on the gathering of national leaders, some of the alternative events that coincided with the summit organized by NGOs and c…
Vietnam and Iraq in Japan: Japanese and American Grassroots Peace Activism
Many people asked me what happened to me in Vietnam to make my eyes open to the horrors of war. Many things happened. ... But I'd like to share with you one thing that changed my life forever
Action Against Poverty: Japan's Working Poor Under Attack
With the long-term stagnation of the Japanese economy, issues of poverty, income inequality, and economic security have assumed more prominence in Japanese discourses of the socio-economic state of the nation. In 2006 a new phrase entered the lexicon: the "working poor
Depopulation and Financial Collapse in Yubari: Market Forces, Administrative Folly, or a Warning to Others
In 2006, the former coalmining town of Yūbari in Hokkaido declared financial collapse. This paper explores the reasons for the collapse with a focus on three factors: depopulation following the closure of the mines, the failings of a regeneration strategy based on tourism and decentralisation policy in the early 2000s. It considers the implications of depopulation and economic decline in Japan's ‘shrinking regions’ in an era of increasing wealth …
War Responsibility and the Family in Japan: Kurahashi Ayako's My Father's Dying Wish
This essay presents extracts from the autobiography of Kurahashi Ayako, My Father's Dying Wish (Paulownia Press 2009; original Japanese edition, Kempei datta chichi no nokoshita mono, Kobunken 2002). Kurahashi's father, who had been a military policeman during the war, made a dying wish in 1986 that an apology to the people of China be inscribed on his gravestone. The extracts of her testimony presented here clarify how the request forced her to …
Testimony and War Memories in Japan: Introduction
Testimony and War Memories in Japan", comprising two essays and an introduction, brings together a most unlikely pair of Japanese authors: Kurahashi Ayako and Kobayashi Yoshinori. The first essay, "War and Responsibility in a Japanese Family", is a selection of extracts from Kurahashi Ayako's autobiographical book My Father's Dying Wish (Paulownia Press, 2009). It describes the effects on her and her family of her father's deathbed request: for a…
The Complete Withdrawal of the US Military from Ecuador: A Victory for Sovereignty and Peace in Latin America
US forces withdrew completely from Ecuador in September 2009. How does the Democratic Party of Japan's coalition administration see the "victory for sovereignty and peace" as it sways between the imperatives of the Okinawan people's will and the US-Japan Alliance with respect to the transfer of the Futenma Base on Okinawa? This is the second in a two part series on US military bases. The first part is Kageyama Asako and Philip Seaton, Marines Go …
Marines Go Home: Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan and Korea
The US military's Kooni Firing Range in the South Korean village of Maehyang-ri was closed in 2005, following a concerted effort by anti-base activists. Maehyang-ri was one of three anti-base struggles featured in the documentary film Marines Go Home: Henoko, Maehyang-ri, Yausubetsu (official website here, trailer here) directed by Hokkaido-based independent filmmaker Fujimoto Yukihisa. In this article, journalist and filmmaker Kageyama Asako (na…
Glocalization, Chiiki Saisei Anata ga Shuyaku da: Noshoko Renkei to Koyo Soshutsu (In the Revitalization of Local Regions, You Play the Main Role: Joint Ventures between Agriculture, Commerce and Manu…
Journal Article Glocalization, Chiiki Saisei Anata ga Shuyaku da: Nōshōkō Renkei to Koyō Sōshutsu (In the Revitalization of Local Regions, You Play the Main Role: Joint Ventures between Agriculture, Commerce and Manufacturing and the Creation of Employment) Get access Glocalization, Chiiki Saisei Anata ga Shuyaku da: Nōshōkō Renkei to Koyō Sōshutsu (In the Revitalization of Local Regions, You Play the Main Role: Joint Ventures between Agriculture…
Historiography and Japanese War Nationalism: Testimony in Sensōron, Sensōron as Testimony
This essay looks at the use of testimony by manga artist Kobayashi Yoshinori, a prominent neonationalist voice on war issues. It focuses on three themes to assess his 1998 manga Sensōron (On War): Kobayashi's stated position on the validity of testimony as evidence, how testimony is used within Kobayashi's arguments, and the inherently autobiographical nature of Kobayashi's writings. It reveals a key nationalist hypocrisy: while the rejection of …
Beachheads: War, peace, and tourism in postwar Okinawa
In 1945, Okinawa was the site of a devastating battle during the closing months of World War II, yet by the end of the twentieth century it had been transformed into a major tourist destination oft
Remembering Biowarfare Unit 731 Through Musical Activism: A Performance of the Choral Work The Devil's Gluttony
Kitara is Sapporo's state-of-the-art concert hall in the middle of picturesque Nakajima Park. On 2 July 2014 I went there with different expectations than usual. I was not going to hear a professional orchestra playing a masterpiece of the classical repertoire, but an amateur choir singing a little-known choral work called Akuma no Hōshoku (The Devil's Gluttony), composed by Ikebe Shinichiro with words by Morimura Seiichi, a leading novelist. The…
The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine
Takahashi Tetsuya's "The National Politics of the Yasukuni Shrine, " is among the most important statements to emerge from the debate over Yasukuni Shrine, historical memory and war nationalism.Japan Focus is pleased to present chapter seven of Naoko Shimazu, ed., Nationalisms in Japan. Philip Seaton is the translator.We thank Takahashi, Shimazu, Seaton and Routledge for their cooperation in publishing this article.Find a podcast of Takahashi Tet…
Taiga dramas and tourism: Historical Contents as Sustainable Tourist Resources
Taiga dramas are one of the flagship events of the Japanese television year. These historical drama series, broadcast on NHK General over the course of a year in Sunday evening prime time, have induced large-scale tourism to sites related to the events depicted in the dramas. This article investigates the scopes and natures of the tourism booms induced by two dramas set in the Bakumatsu (1853–1868) period: Shinsengumi! in 2004 and Ryōma-den in 20…
Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism – Introduction
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism’ places the four articles in theoretical and contextual perspective. Contents tourism is a theoretical concept that originated in Japan. Its closest counterpart in the English-language literature at present is film-induced tourism or media-induced tourism. Contents tourism is placed within the theoretical context of cultural tourism and the rationale for its …
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border
Introduction, Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton Part I: Borderland Societies Pre-1945 1. Japanese Society on Karafuto, Taisho Nakayama 2. Borders, Borderlands and Migration in Sakhalin and the Priamur Region: a Comparative Study, Igor Saveliev Part II: Postwar Population Movements 3. Occupation-era Hokkaido and the Emergence of the Karafuto Repatriate: the Role of Repatriate Leaders, Jonathan Bull 4. Soviet Rule in South Sakhalin and the Japan…
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto / Sakhalin
Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History
Journal Article Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History Get access Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History, by Jason G. Karlin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 320 pp., $45.00 (ISBN 978-0-8248-3826-3) Philip SEATON Philip SEATON Hokkaido University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 18, Iss…
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