[Seminar] Relationships of Japanese Soldiers and Northern Thai People: Oral History-Based War Museum Development on Dark Tourism

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Tourism can contribute to the achievement of the United Nation¡¯s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ¨D

Center for Tourism Research (CTR), Wakayama University, holds Seminar Series ¡®Tourism and SDGs¡¯ throughout 2018 under our mission; contribute to the development of a sound and sustainable society through the advancement of tourism research. Dr. Amnaj Khaokrueamuang will present his research on dark tourism development based on the oral history interpreting relationship between Japanese soldiers and northern Thai people during the period of World War II.

*This seminar will be conducted in English.
*No registration, no registration fee required.

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Theme

CTR Seminar Series 2018 - Tourism and SDGs - Vol.5
Relationships of Japanese Soldiers and Northern Thai People: Oral History-Based War Museum Development on Dark Tourism

This research seminar presents the collection of oral history interpreting relationships of the Japanese soldiers and northern Thai people along Japanese military routes in Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son during the period of World War II. Memorials and war museums of these routes have been developed as dark tourism attractions over more than two decades such as the Thai-Japan Friendship Memorial Hall, but they are less attractive due to a neglect of oral history presentation and its interpretation of historical consciousness. This research, therefore, discusses ideas of how to apply the concept of historical consciousness in developing war memorial museums through the commodification of oral history.
The seminar will also present learning activities of tourism students of Wakayama University visiting the memorial of Japanese Soldiers at Chiang Mai¡¯s Ban Gad High School in February this year.

Date

Tuesday, 30 October, 2018

Time

14:50¡«16:20

Venue

CTR Conference Room 107, Bldg. West 1, Wakayama University
(Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city)

Speaker

Dr. Amnaj Khaokrueamuang
£¨Lecturer, Center for Tourism Research)

Contact

Center for Tourism Research
Wakayama University

Sakaedani 930, Wakayama-city 640-8510, JAPAN

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