ABSTRACT
Mizuki Shigeru (1922-2015) is one of Japan’s most celebrated manga artists for his works set in the fantasy world of yōkai (monsters or ghosts in Japanese folklore). These manga have been adapted into multiple anime and Mizuki’s life featured in a major television drama, Gegege no nyōbō in 2010. All these works have triggered contents tourism. However, behind Mizuki’s yōkai stories lurk his experiences as a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War. This chapter examines the ‘absent presence’ (Igarashi Yoshikuni) of his war experiences in his yōkai manga, and therefore Mizuki-related contents tourism as a particular type of war-related tourism.
