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The Use of ‘Cool Japan’ in Inbound Tourism
A Critical Analysis of the Cool Japan Forest Project
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The International Journal of Contents Tourism is an
open-access Scholarly journal exploring the phenomenon of "contents tourism".
The International Journal of Contents Tourism is an open-access scholarly journal exploring the phenomenon of ‘contents tourism’. Contents tourism is travel behaviour 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. The concept originated in Japan and is closely related to what is known as film-induced tourism or media-induced tourism in English.
IJCT publishes articles of various lengths, from original research papers through to short blog entries. It is based at Hokkaido University and the editors-in-chief are Professor Takayoshi Yamamura (Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University) and Professor Philip Seaton (Institute of Japan Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).
IJCT has three main aims:
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It is possible to have a great Harry Potter tourism experience in ... Japan. Japan has virtually nothing to do with the novels (although there is a Qui... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Going to two events in three weeks at which there were many cosplayers (the Toyako Manga Anime Festa in Hokkaido, 27-28 June, and Hyper Japan in London... more
FromPhilip Seaton
In the Asakusa, there is a bar named Kamiya bar, one of the oldiest bar in Japan, from Meiji era, 1880. The famous cocktail of the Kamiya bar is Denki ... more
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Seiseki Sakuragaoka is a remarkable, brilliant site for fans of ‘Mimi wo Sumaseba’, Whisper of the Heart (1995). It is not the ‘official location... more
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