Sueo Kuwahara
Biographic Data
| ID | 301589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sueo Kuwahara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sueo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuwahara |
| SIGNATURE | KUWAHARA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kagoshima University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Islands of Song: The Dynamics of Tradition and Modernity in Shima-uta (Island Songs) and Shin min’yō (New Folk Songs)
This article explores the role of song in shaping and expressing island identity in the Amami Islands 奄美群島 of southwest Japan, with a focus on the genres of shima-uta 島唄 (island songs) and shin min’yō 新民謡 (new folk songs). These two musical styles serve as distinct cultural emblems, each reflecting different historical roots, stylistic influences and social functions. The former is anchored in traditional culture and the latter is a more recent t…
Shinjima: Vulnerability, Resilience and Island Fluidity
Shinjima ('New Island'), a relatively recent volcanic island in south-west Japan, has undergone cycles of settlement, depopulation and re-settlement, mirroring similar circumstances encountered by many small island cultures in Japan. Throughout its history, and in the vicinity of ongoing volcanic activity, the island has experienced periods of vulnerability and resilience, marked by fluctuations in its population and leading to shifts in the isla…
North Meets South: Eisā and the Wrapping of Identity on Okinoerabu Island, Japan
The small island of Okinoerabu in the Nansei archipelago to the southwest of Japan is located at a crossroads of sub-national cultural flows and exhibits a distinct cultural emblem of island identity in the form of a prominent performing art called eis. This performance style, which combines drumming, choreography and live or recorded music, has its roots in Okinawa prefecture (to the southwest of Okinoerabu), where its function has moved predomi…
Ecotourism and World Natural Heritage: Its influence on islands in Japan
The article discusses the influence of World Natural Heritage registration on ecotourism by looking at the cases of Yakushima as the first World Natural Heritage site and Ogasawara as an advanced region of ecotourism in Japan, and also the Amami Islands and Iriomote Islands where various efforts have been taken toward the registration of World Natural Heritage
Sakurajima: Maintaining an Island Essence
Sakurajima (Cherry Island) began its existence about 26,000 years ago as a volcanic island rising from the northern end of Kagoshima Bay in the south of the island of Kysh, Japan. What makes Sakurajima a topic of significance in the field of Island Studies is that it is no longer an island, yet maintains many island-like characteristics-an island essence. In 1914, there was a major volcanic eruption on Sakurajima with a massive lava flow that cov…
Transcience and Durability: Music industry initiatives, Shima Uta and the maintenance of Amami culture
Hayward and Kuwahara consider a local and very traditional approach to Japanese song forms – shima uta. The authors argue that a distinct local cultural identity has been developed and maintained in a traditional way – not involving fusions and incorporation into more widely disseminated popular music styles. “Surveyed in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, Amami traditional music looks healthy in its local context”. While it may …
Drum Travel: Ensemble Drumming Traditions on Kikaijima-Cultures, Histories, Islands
This article discusses ensemble drumming on Kikaijima (Kikai island) in Japan. We apply the metaphor of travel to these drum groups, which reveals how this small island culture is able to sustain, invent, or adopt styles of drumming within the national context as a result of its geographic location, cultural heritage, and island identity. Ethnographic research on Kikaijima revealed a deeply embedded notion of travel, which helps explain how and w…
Takarajima: A Treasured Island
This article examines the manner in which local identity can be constructed on small islands from the selective prioritisation and elaboration of exogenous elements that become localised by this process and can subsequently function as a brand within contemporary tourism markets. The particular analysis of identity motifs on Takarajima island that we expound examines aspects of the relationships between folklore and contemporary media and referen…
Divergent trajectories: Environment, heritage and tourism in Tanegashima, Mageshima and Yakushima
This article addresses aspects of contemporary heritage orientation of Tanegashima and Yakushima islands in southern Japan in the context of their historical association; the status of adjacent Mageshima island; and the divergent nature of the tourism attractions and related industries that have developed on the islands from the late 20th Century on. The discussion involves two aspects of heritage and heritage protection and exploitation; in the …
The development of small islands in Japan: An historical perspective
Japan is an island country which has nearly 7000 islands, of which only 421 islands are inhabited. Many of the remote (or small) islands had been left underdeveloped since prewar periods. In consequence, the disparity between the remote islands and mainland Japan widened, and thus, Japanese government undertook a development policy of remote islands based of the enactment of Remote Islands Development Act. The aim of the act was to eliminate “bac…
The development of small islands in Japan: An historical perspective
Japan is an island country which has nearly 7000 islands, of which only 421 islands are inhabited. Many of the remote (or small) islands had been left underdeveloped since prewar periods. In consequence, the disparity between the remote islands and mainland Japan widened, and thus, Japanese government undertook a development policy of remote islands based of the enactment of Remote Islands Development Act. The aim of the act was to eliminate “bac…
Ecotourism and World Natural Heritage: Its influence on islands in Japan
The article discusses the influence of World Natural Heritage registration on ecotourism by looking at the cases of Yakushima as the first World Natural Heritage site and Ogasawara as an advanced region of ecotourism in Japan, and also the Amami Islands and Iriomote Islands where various efforts have been taken toward the registration of World Natural Heritage
Sakurajima: Maintaining an Island Essence
Sakurajima (Cherry Island) began its existence about 26,000 years ago as a volcanic island rising from the northern end of Kagoshima Bay in the south of the island of Kysh, Japan. What makes Sakurajima a topic of significance in the field of Island Studies is that it is no longer an island, yet maintains many island-like characteristics-an island essence. In 1914, there was a major volcanic eruption on Sakurajima with a massive lava flow that cov…
Takarajima: A Treasured Island
This article examines the manner in which local identity can be constructed on small islands from the selective prioritisation and elaboration of exogenous elements that become localised by this process and can subsequently function as a brand within contemporary tourism markets. The particular analysis of identity motifs on Takarajima island that we expound examines aspects of the relationships between folklore and contemporary media and referen…
Divergent trajectories: Environment, heritage and tourism in Tanegashima, Mageshima and Yakushima
This article addresses aspects of contemporary heritage orientation of Tanegashima and Yakushima islands in southern Japan in the context of their historical association; the status of adjacent Mageshima island; and the divergent nature of the tourism attractions and related industries that have developed on the islands from the late 20th Century on. The discussion involves two aspects of heritage and heritage protection and exploitation; in the …
The development of small islands in Japan: An historical perspective
Japan is an island country which has nearly 7000 islands, of which only 421 islands are inhabited. Many of the remote (or small) islands had been left underdeveloped since prewar periods. In consequence, the disparity between the remote islands and mainland Japan widened, and thus, Japanese government undertook a development policy of remote islands based of the enactment of Remote Islands Development Act. The aim of the act was to eliminate “bac…
Divergent trajectories: Environment, heritage and tourism in Tanegashima, Mageshima and Yakushima
This article addresses aspects of contemporary heritage orientation of Tanegashima and Yakushima islands in southern Japan in the context of their historical association; the status of adjacent Mageshima island; and the divergent nature of the tourism attractions and related industries that have developed on the islands from the late 20th Century on. The discussion involves two aspects of heritage and heritage protection and exploitation; in the …
Takarajima: A Treasured Island
This article examines the manner in which local identity can be constructed on small islands from the selective prioritisation and elaboration of exogenous elements that become localised by this process and can subsequently function as a brand within contemporary tourism markets. The particular analysis of identity motifs on Takarajima island that we expound examines aspects of the relationships between folklore and contemporary media and referen…
Transcience and Durability: Music industry initiatives, Shima Uta and the maintenance of Amami culture
Hayward and Kuwahara consider a local and very traditional approach to Japanese song forms – shima uta. The authors argue that a distinct local cultural identity has been developed and maintained in a traditional way – not involving fusions and incorporation into more widely disseminated popular music styles. “Surveyed in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, Amami traditional music looks healthy in its local context”. While it may …
Drum Travel: Ensemble Drumming Traditions on Kikaijima-Cultures, Histories, Islands
This article discusses ensemble drumming on Kikaijima (Kikai island) in Japan. We apply the metaphor of travel to these drum groups, which reveals how this small island culture is able to sustain, invent, or adopt styles of drumming within the national context as a result of its geographic location, cultural heritage, and island identity. Ethnographic research on Kikaijima revealed a deeply embedded notion of travel, which helps explain how and w…
Ecotourism and World Natural Heritage: Its influence on islands in Japan
The article discusses the influence of World Natural Heritage registration on ecotourism by looking at the cases of Yakushima as the first World Natural Heritage site and Ogasawara as an advanced region of ecotourism in Japan, and also the Amami Islands and Iriomote Islands where various efforts have been taken toward the registration of World Natural Heritage
Sakurajima: Maintaining an Island Essence
Sakurajima (Cherry Island) began its existence about 26,000 years ago as a volcanic island rising from the northern end of Kagoshima Bay in the south of the island of Kysh, Japan. What makes Sakurajima a topic of significance in the field of Island Studies is that it is no longer an island, yet maintains many island-like characteristics-an island essence. In 1914, there was a major volcanic eruption on Sakurajima with a massive lava flow that cov…
North Meets South: Eisā and the Wrapping of Identity on Okinoerabu Island, Japan
The small island of Okinoerabu in the Nansei archipelago to the southwest of Japan is located at a crossroads of sub-national cultural flows and exhibits a distinct cultural emblem of island identity in the form of a prominent performing art called eis. This performance style, which combines drumming, choreography and live or recorded music, has its roots in Okinawa prefecture (to the southwest of Okinoerabu), where its function has moved predomi…
Shinjima: Vulnerability, Resilience and Island Fluidity
Shinjima ('New Island'), a relatively recent volcanic island in south-west Japan, has undergone cycles of settlement, depopulation and re-settlement, mirroring similar circumstances encountered by many small island cultures in Japan. Throughout its history, and in the vicinity of ongoing volcanic activity, the island has experienced periods of vulnerability and resilience, marked by fluctuations in its population and leading to shifts in the isla…
Islands of Song: The Dynamics of Tradition and Modernity in Shima-uta (Island Songs) and Shin min’yō (New Folk Songs)
This article explores the role of song in shaping and expressing island identity in the Amami Islands 奄美群島 of southwest Japan, with a focus on the genres of shima-uta 島唄 (island songs) and shin min’yō 新民謡 (new folk songs). These two musical styles serve as distinct cultural emblems, each reflecting different historical roots, stylistic influences and social functions. The former is anchored in traditional culture and the latter is a more recent t…
Geography (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works)