This book explores the decline of rural and peripheral areas in Japan, which results from an aging population, outmigration of the younger generations, and the
This Handbook on Food Tourism provides an overview of the past, present and future of research traditions, perspectives, and concerns about the food tourism phe
This book inquires what is meant when we say "local" and what "local" means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality, it enhances an understandin
This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narra
This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It critically examines the emerging f
