Key Research Unit
Culture & Heritage
Overview
Issues relating to management, conservation and development of cultural heritage will be examined, exploring innovative approaches such as creative tourism. Places of historical importance, built environments and urban areas, rural and agricultural landscapes, natural environment and places with distinct living cultures will be important research agenda, as well as reviving or safeguarding intangible heritage.
Projects
| Project Type | Primary Investigator | Project Title |
| KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research（C） | Ichiro Kaizu | Study of Untrue Historical Monument in Medieval JAPAN |
| KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research（C） | Kenkichi Ono | Study on the promotion of appropriate and sustainable garden tourism in Japan |
Activities
Publications
| Publication Type | Author/s | Title | Year |
| Journal article | Abhik Chakraborty | Emplacing non-human voices in tourism research: the role of dissensus as a qualitative method | 2020 |
| Book review | Ricardo Nicolas Progano | Safeguarding intangible heritage: practices and politics | 2019 |
| Book review | Ricardo Nicolas Progano | Religious tourism in Asia: Tradition and change through case studies and narratives | 2019 |
| Journal article | Kumi Kato | Gender and sustainability – exploring ways of knowing – an ecohumanities perspective | 2019 |
| Journal article | Abhik Chakraborty | Does nature matter? Arguing for a biophysical turn in the ecotourism narrative | 2019 |
| Book | Abhik Chakraborty | Rivers and Society -Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods | 2017 |
| Journal article | Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang | Agricultural heritage systems of orchard based on the concept of satoyama and sufficiency economy: Green tourism perspectives for Japan and Thailand | 2017 |
