This paper takes a historical sociological approach to exploring the construction of war-related tourism sites in Chiran, a town famous as the “home” of the tokkō (or kamikaze) pilots. Today, despite poor access to the town, many tourists visit its tokkō-focused Peace Museum and Tokkō temple (Tokkō Heiwa Kannon-dō). In the early postwar period, however, Chiran did not present itself as a tokkō town. While locals have come to embrace an identity tied to the tokkō, those who died in the tokkō operations carried out from Chiran were not local residents, but rather pilots from throughout Japan. When did Chiran emerge as a home of tokkō, and in what social context? Through exploring these questions, this paper analyzes the historical processes involved in the construction of war memorial sites in postwar Japan.
雑誌名
Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies
巻
33
ページ
247 - 270
発行年
2019
ISSN
09150986
24343129
書誌レコードID
AA10759175
フォーマット
application/pdf
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
International Research Center for Japanese Studies
The Construction of Tokkō Memorial Sites in Chiran and the Politics of "Risk-Free" Memories
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