Consuming Rural Japan: The Marketing of Tradition and Nostalgia in the Japanese Travel Industry

Creighton, Millie

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“…The strength of the nostalgia associated with satoyama may be understood within the context of what one Japanese scholar refers to as Japan's ''retrospective age'' (Akatsuka, 1988, cited in Creighton, 1997, which emerged in the 1970s, and which involves a renewed interest in Japanese traditions and a nostalgia for the past. In particular, this has seen the romanticisation of Japan's heritage, especially widespread efforts to revitalise or recreate both the imagery and reality of the furusato, or ''home village'' (Creighton, 1997;Knight, 1994). 16 Robertson (1987, p. 126) describes furusato as ''a rural landscape consisting of a forested mountain range enclosing fields dotted with thatch-roof farmhouses and cut by a meandering river''.…”

Section: Satoyama In the Discourse On Human-wildlife Conflictmentioning

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The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21^st-Century Nature Conservation

Knight

2010

Asian Studies Review

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The term satoyama gained currency in Japan in postwar decades as a term that describes a sphere of ''encultured'' nature that has traditionally existed on the periphery of rural settlements, but which is increasingly threatened by industrialisation, urban development, rural depopulation and changing lifestyles. Satoyama is appealing as a concept because it represents a sphere in which nature and culture intersect, and is reminiscent of a more idyllic rural lifestyle of the past, when the Japanese ''lived in harmony with nature''. This article examines the role of this term in the nature conservation discourse in Japan, and in particular its appropriation by the Ministry of the Environment and the Japanese host organisations for the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which was held in Japan in 2010. The article will explore the way the concept of satoyama has been ''showcased'' as a model of sustainable resource management based on traditional methods of agriculture. The satoyama concept is used to demonstrate that Japan not only possesses the knowledge to live in harmony with nature, but also offers a model of sustainable resource management that the rest of the world can learn from.

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Section: Satoyama In the Discourse On Human-wildlife Conflictmentioning

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The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21^st-Century Nature Conservation

Knight

2010

Asian Studies Review

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“…Tradition wird häufig mit nachhaltigem Erfolg gleichgesetzt und steht damit für anhaltende Qualität und Kompetenz [2]. Ingesamt ist dieser Bereich heute in ein übergeordnetes Kulturmanagement im Sinne eines Traditionsmarketings eingebunden, wie es beispielsweise Städte, große öffentliche Institutionen oder Wirtschaftsunternehmen betreiben [3,4,5].…”

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History is nowadays used as an economic factor. The past is therefore specifically targeted and cultivated, which for specialist scientific associations and societies often fullfils totally different functions in comparison to the open market, although the techniques and requirements are similar. Within medical specialties these facts are often still unknown. Museums and archives as well as the historians and curators working in them are very familiar with the special cultures of communication within these scientific communities and they play a major role in the establishment and development of history as a modern part of public relations and public identity.

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“…Meanwhile, in Jutai (Congestion, 1991) a film which contrasts the stresses of urban life and the tranquility of "home," or the birth village, the Fujis' family trip home for Obon "the modern urban-industrialized lifestyle is experienced with a twinge of regret and sense of loss, while remote areas become idyllic representations of a more pristine way of life, less corrupted by industrial dehumanization, urban anomie, or Western influences" [2]. The researcher goes on to suggest that the "desire to emulate tradition and a lost rural lifestyle reveals a contemporary quest for community and collective identity".…”

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Cultural Capital and Leisure Performances as Aids to Disaster Recovery: Niigata Bull Pushing and New Orleans’ Carnival

Donlon¹

2013

IJSSH

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Abstract-There is little question that leisure performances such as the Carnival of New Orleans [Mardi Gras], and the bull fight or bull-pushing festival in Niigata prefecture, Japan, often contribute to knitting together local community, reflect group identity and values, and act to enforce continuity of culture. At the same time these leisure performances foster so-called "hybridity." They are, in effect, engines of continuity and change. As a result, these festive settings may be seen as liminal zones offering both insulation from change and mechanisms through which cultural change may be absorbed, altered, negotiated and otherwise "handled." This paper focuses on discussing how cultural performances such as these festive settings often function to create social capital (good will) and, especially in times of disaster, "discharge" much of this capital both to sustain a continuity of tradition and to negotiate with the "new," or emerging circumstances. It chiefly mentions research on two regions, explaining the role of the relevant leisure performances and establishing a little of each community's cultural past. I will discuss how, in both regions, there was strong controversy (involving the bull pushing festival in Niigata and Mardi Gras in New Orleans) circulating about the disposition of scarce resources.

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Consuming Rural Japan: The Marketing of Tradition and Nostalgia in the Japanese Travel Industry

Cited by 103 publications

References 13 publications

The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21^st-Century Nature Conservation

The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21^st-Century Nature Conservation

Geschichte in der öffentlichen Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Fachgesellschaften

Cultural Capital and Leisure Performances as Aids to Disaster Recovery: Niigata Bull Pushing and New Orleans’ Carnival

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Consuming Rural Japan: The Marketing of Tradition and Nostalgia in the Japanese Travel Industry

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The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21st-Century Nature Conservation

The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21st-Century Nature Conservation

Geschichte in der öffentlichen Kommunikation wissenschaftlicher Fachgesellschaften

Cultural Capital and Leisure Performances as Aids to Disaster Recovery: Niigata Bull Pushing and New Orleans’ Carnival

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The Discourse of “Encultured Nature”in Japan: The Concept ofSatoyamaand its Role in 21^st-Century Nature Conservation

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