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People around the world are used to the Hokusai images of a "Great Wave" being exploited in an increasingly wide range of visual media: advertisements, T-shirts, I manga i . Contents tourism in Japan: pilgrimages to the "sacred sites" of popular culture: written by Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada and Kyungjae Jang, Amherst, Cambria, 2017, xiii + 306 pp., RRP £75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-60497-973-2 They illustrate three distinctive phases of development in Japan's modern domestic tourism industry: the mass tourism of the 1960s and 1970s when most tourists allowed themselves to be organized into tour groups and were transported by travel companies to selected locations. Accordingly, the authors continue to spread their points of reference internationally and inform readers of the growing interconnectedness of contents tourism in Japan with fan bases across the world: e.g. the I Hyper Japan World Cosplay Summit i held each year in London. [Extracted from the article]

Frazier died in 2011, Norton in 2013, and Ali in 2016, broken men physically, sick and debilitated, and - in the case of Ali and Frazier - clearly straitened financially after earning millions in the ring. Nearly all of Foreman's championship fights in the 1970s took place abroad - for instance, he won the title in Kingston, Jamaica, beating Joe Frazier and lost it to Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the bout known as the Rumble in the Jungle. [Extracted from the article]

Various edifices redolent of their time are discussed here, both the actually existing Tokyo Tower and the putative buildings that the grand architect of mid to late twentieth century Tokyo, Tange Kenzo, designed for Tokyo Bay. Asakusa, for example, comes into the story at various junctures, and in this chapter in connection with Tokyo's first "skyscraper", the Cloud-Surpassing Tower, Ryounkaku. A second central figure in the early history of Tokyo is Ota Dokan (1432-1486), who was the first to build a fortified settlement on a spur of land above the bay of Tokyo in the fifteenth century. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896-2012," edited by John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold.

The article reviews the book "Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World's Games, 1896-2012," edited by John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold.