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philosophy of the tourist

hiroki azuma


i knew this was going to be a keeper when only a chapter in, azuma felt the need to insert a long “supplement” defending his 2013 book Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant No. 1 Tourism Plan, a proposal to turn the site of the fukushima disaster into a tourist destination for “dark tourism”. ultimately he was vindicated because a couple years ago i watched some of a netflix series called “dark tourist”, and guess where the host went in one of the first episodes?