On 30 September an edition of the Beyond Japan Podcast (University of East Anglia) was released with me talking about contents tourism. Check it out!
「コンテンツツーリズム」が出版されました！
２０２０年に出版されたContents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandomの和訳は、北海道大学出版会によって出版されました。リンク：出版社のWebページ
New Book Chapter in The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
My chapter “Rewriting history, revitalizing heritage: Heritage-based contents tourism in the Asia-Pacific region” co-authored with Sue Beeton has just been published in The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism.
Book Chapter Published: Traveling Clouds Above the Hill
My book chapter ‘The “Shiba view of history” and Japan–Korea relations: Reading, watching and travelling Clouds Above the Hill’ has just been published in Rumi Sakamoto and Stephen Epstein (eds) Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations, Routledge, 2021. This article has been made open access.
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies: Introduction now open access
The introduction to our latest edited volume (New Frontiers in Japanese Studies) is now available open access on the Routledge website:
Akihiro Ogawa and Philip Seaton, “Introduction: envisioning new frontiers in Japanese Studies”.
New Academic Year
The new academic year begins amidst the corona virus pandemic. Congratulations to the students who have joined the School of Japan Studies, and also to my three new postgraduate students in the International Japan Course (one student moving from research student to a PhD programme, one student entering the MA programme, and one student coming as a research student).
My courses this term are completely online until the corona virus situation stabilizes. I hope that all our students, and people everywhere, will stay safe and well as the world works to overcome this pandemic and accompanying economic crisis.
“New Frontiers in Japanese Studies” is now in press
The edited volume that I have been working on this year with Professor Akihiro Ogawa (University of Melbourne) is now in press. We expect it to be published in the spring/summer of 2020. Details are already available at the Routledge website.
New book available for pre-order!
My latest book is scheduled to be published on 31 January 2020. It is now available for pre-order on the Channel View Publications Website. There is also a pre-order offer of 50% off (see this flyer: Yamamura & Seaton discount flyer). Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences is a collection of essays that examines the phenomenon of contents tourism in an international perspective. My own contributions are the chapter “The Contents Tourism of Jane Austen’s American Fans” and the conclusions, “Sustainable Contents Tourism in the 21st Century”. I co-edited the book with my long-time research partner, Takayoshi Yamamura.
スタディツアー：共同教育プログラムについて
「2019年7月22日（月）～31日（水）、本学にて、英国のセントラル・ランカシャー大学（UCLAN）とのJoint Education Program（共同教育プログラム）を実施しました。UCLANから7名の学生がマレイケ・ハマン講師とともに来日し、国際日本学部の5名の学生とともに学びました。」
Two Conference Presentations: Tokyo & Melbourne
I have an academic conference “double header” in June. On 15 June I presented my research on tourism relating to Clouds Above the Hill at the Showa Literature Society. On 26 June I present on War-related Contents Tourism at the Travel and Tourism Research Association conference in Melbourne. Both are part of our new contents tourism focusing on war-related entertainment products and tourism.