@article{oai:nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007291,
 author = {MILNE, Daniel},
 journal = {Japan review : Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies},
 month = {},
 note = {This paper explores the role of tourism in soldier indoctrination by applying the concept of the “militourist gaze”—ways of representing, perceiving, and interacting with others that combine militarism and tourism—to analyze Allied military media, soldier memoirs, and photographs from World War II and the Occupation of Japan. The first part of the paper shows how in guides to Japan for U.S. military personnel published in the closing stages of the war, the tourist gaze is blamed for blinding the U.S. to Japan’s war plans. The second and third sections explore how the privileges of the Occupation enjoyed by the Allied military were reinforced through participation in bombsite and sex tourism in the immediate postwar. The final two sections focus on the late 1940s, and argue that, with Japan being recast as a vital Cold War ally, Occupation soldiers were gradually encouraged to forget World War II and embrace prewar touristic notions of their former enemy. The paper concludes that both during war and the Occupation, the militourist gaze became a tool in Allied army soldier indoctrination. Over the short span of four years (1945–1949), soldier education regarding Japan shifted from utilizing this gaze to intensify hatred and suspicion to encourage friendship and trust. The militourist gaze, the author argues, is vital not only in building amity and overlooking past hatreds to form new war alliances, but also in mobilizing soldiers for war.},
 pages = {143--172},
 title = {From Decoy to Cultural Mediator : The Changing Uses of Tourism in Allied Troop Education about Japan, 1945–1949},
 volume = {33},
 year = {2019}
}