ABSTRACT

This article examines how dark tourism has been adopted and developed in Japan and suggests how it can be linked to educational tourism, through the case of a ‘Hope Tourism Guided Tour’ held in Fukushima in 2018. In Japan, dark tourism has developed into a new form, nested within educational tourism (or an educational tourism that contains elements of dark tourism within it). This is connected to the long history of educational tourism and to the cultural backlash against dark tourism. Hope tourism in Fukushima is an example of this type of new educational tourism-centred dark tourism. First, we review how the concepts of educational and dark tourism have spread in Japan. Second, the article clarifies how educational dark tourism has developed in the case of the Fukushima Hope Tourism Guided Tour.

摘要

本文以 2018 年在福岛举办的“希望旅游导览”为例，探讨了日本如何采用和发展黑暗旅游，并建议如何将其与教育旅游联系起来。 在日本，黑暗旅游已发展成为一种嵌套在教育旅游（或其中包含黑暗旅游元素的教育旅游）中的新形式。这与教育旅游的悠久历史以及对黑暗旅游的文化反弹有关。福岛的希望旅游就是这种以教育旅游为中心的新型黑暗旅游的一个例子。首先，我们回顾一下教育和黑暗旅游的概念是如何在日本传播的。其次，文章以福岛希望旅游导览团为例，阐明了教育黑暗旅游是如何发展起来的。