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Japanese Tourism to Korea, Circa 1940: The Tension between Tourism Promotion and Assimilation Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Kenneth Ruoff
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In 1940 the Japanese celebrated the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the imperial dynasty. This history was largely contrived.

For example, the supposed first emperor, Jimmu, never existed, and the first 1000 or so years of the 2600-year imperial history is also mythical. But the 2600th anniversary celebrations in 1940 were nonetheless massive and empire-wide.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 11 , March 2011 , e1
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1 Japan Tsūrisuto Byūrō, Nankin (Hōten, 1939).

2 Tessa Morris-Suzuki, “Becoming Japanese: Imperial Expansion and Identity Crises in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Japan's Competing Modernities, ed. Sharon A. Minichiello (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998), 159–61.

3 Ahn Changmo, “Colonial Tourism in 1930s' Korean Architecture,” Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture, vol. 7 (2004): 13–25. Todd Henry kindly brought this essay to my attention.

4 See Jeremy Taylor, “Colonial Takao: The Making of a Southern Metropolis,” Urban History 31, no. 1 (2004): 48-71, esp. 55-56.

5 Gwendolyn Wright, The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

6 Nihon kankō jigyō kenkyū sho, Nihon kankō nenkan (1941), 291-94.

7 Tõyõ nenkan [Far East Yearbook], 1941.

8 Inoue Tomoichirō, Toyoda Saburō, Nitta Jun, and Takematsu Yoshiaki, Manshū tabi nikki (Akashi shobō, 1941), 34-35.

9 Joshua A. Fogel, The Cultural Dimension of Sino-Japanese Relations (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995), 116.

10 Zenkoku yū wa dantai rengō taikai, Zenkoku yūwa dantai rengō taikai yōkō (Kashihara-shi, 1940), 10.

11 Katarzyna Cwiertka, Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (London: Reaktion Books, 2006). Particularly relevant is her chapter “The Culinary Consequences of Japanese Imperialism.”

12 “Gogahakunihantō no inshōo kiku zadankai,” Kankō chōsen1, no.2 (August1939):46-53.