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The changing patterns of Japanese tourism and the views of the Japanese tourist since the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, are given an in-depth historical, geographical, economic and social analysis in this book. As well as providing a case study for the purpose of investigating the changing face of global tourism from the 19th to the 21st Century, this account of Japanese tourism explores both domestic social relations and international geographical, political and economic relations, especially in the northeast Asian context. Socio-cultural and geographical analysis form the research...

Band 2 des Kempowski-Jahrbuchs widmet sich dem Roman Schöne Aussicht (1981). Geschildert wird die deutsche Zwischenkriegszeit. Aus Sicht der Familie Kempowski wird »das weite Feld des Alltäglichen« (Hans Jörg Hennecke) zwischen sozialer Kälte und politisch aufgeheizter Atmosphäre bestellt. Neben der politischen Entwicklung interessieren den Autor die Darstellung unterschiedlicher sozialer Milieus und Charaktere. Die vielfach geschwächten ›Familienbande‹ werden mit kühl taxierendem Blick erfasst und spiegeln die innere Distanz des Bürgertums zu den großen...

Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban management in Japan.

This volume examines the growth and nature of such civil society participation in local urban and environmental governance, raising important questions about the changing roles of and...