ABSTRACT
The Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese empire’s greatest ever victory, provides fertile material for war-related entertainment and tourism. This chapter demonstrates that the global political situation – both the anti-war mood after the First World War and Japan’s defeat in the Second World War – profoundly affected tourism flows. However, in the 1960s, the novel Clouds Above the Hill by Shiba Ryōtarō ignited a contents tourism phenomenon. The Russo-Japanese War exemplifies how it is not only the nature of the war being remembered, but also the narrative construction within popular culture and the more general postwar milieu that ultimately shapes war-related contents tourism.
