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Kamp, Sebastiaan (2018)

Japan Heritage: Bottom-up toerisme in de regio of top-down invention of tradition?

Bachelor thesis | Japanstudies (BA)

In 2015, the Bunkacho started up a project known as Japan Heritage (Nihon Isan). The purpose of this project is to locate heritage in the local area and organizing it into a regional 'story' that is consumable for a public both within and outside of Japan. While the project itself is organized by the Bunkacho, a lot of organisational responsibility is held by local players. With local heritage organisations, local authorities and government each playing their role, should we see this new project as top-down consumentarism or bottom-up conversation of local heritage by local people? This is the question I aimed to answer within this essay.

Tourism

Heritage

Japan

Japan Heritage

Bunkazai

Author

Kamp, Sebastiaan

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Japanstudies

Supervisors

Veere, Henny van der

ECTS Credits

10

Language

nl