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This Book Examines Japanese Tourism And Travel, Both Today And In The Past, Showing How Over Hundreds Of Years A Distinct Culture Of Travel Developed, And Exploring How This Has Permeated The Perceptions And Traditions Of Japanese Society. Culture Of Travel (tabi No Bunka) And Japanese Tourism / Sylvie Guichard-angus -- 1. Past And The Other In The Present: Kokunai Kokusaika Kanko -- Domestic International Tourism / Nelson Graburn -- 2. Heroic Edo-ic: Travelling The History Highway In Today's Tokugawa Japan / Millie Creighton -- 3. Japanese Inns (ryokan) As Producers Of Japanese Identity / Sylvie Guichard-anguis -- 4. Meanings Of Tradition In Contemporary Japanese Domestic Tourism / Markus Oedewald -- 5. Fantasy Travel In Time And Space: A New Japanese Phenomenon? / Joy Hendry -- 6. Japanese Tourists In Korea: Colonial And Post-colonial Encounters / Okpyo Moon -- 7. Japanese Encounter With The South: Japanese Tourists In Palau / Shinji Yamashita -- 8. Search For The Real Thing: Japanese Tourism To Britain / Bronwen Surman -- 9. All Roads Lead To Home: Japanese Culinary Tourism In Italy / Merry I. White. Edited By Sylvie Guichard-anguis And Okpyo Moon. Series Numbered Retrospectively. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.