The castle was long used to promote Hiroshima’s identity as a military city. The bomb destroyed not just the physical space of the castle but also the symbolism associated with the site.
Tens of thousands of Japanese Imperial Army soldiers perished in the castle, which served as the headquarters for Japan’s Western Army.
In 1945 Hiroshima Castle, together with most of central Hiroshima, was incinerated and turned into a graveyard. The papers cover the period from the first Sino-Japanese War, through the Russo-Japanese War, the invasion of Manchuria and the Asia-Pacific War, to the postwar and into the present day and they encompass a broad range of locations, including places within prewar and postwar Japan (for example, Inland Sea islands, Hiroshima, Kyoto), pre-1945 overseas colonies (Taiwan and Korea), parts of the wider empire (Manchukuo), and regions on the frontline of wartime expansion (North China). These issues are explored from a variety of academic disciplinary positions, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, literature, media, sociology, and tourism studies. This special issue of Japan Review is the first dedicated volume to bring together scholars in Japan and outside working on all aspects of war/tourism: wartime tourism and war-related tourism during war, postwar tourism and war-related tourism in the postwar, tourism and war memory, media-induced tourism and war, war/tourism representations, and war/tourism practices.
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