This paper examines how war-related contents tourism serves to rewrite war memories, to popularize Japanese militarization and hence displace its meanings and values. War-related tourism and popular culture are often associated with death and tragedy, but such war-related contents tourism becomes light entertainment, while darker values and meanings are displaced and/or invalidated. Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) bases, museums, and events produced in cooperation with MSDF. These contents have been disseminated across multiple media platforms, and fans of the contents visit war-related sites, Japan. In Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova and Kantai Collection, submarines and battleships are personified as girls in World War II scenarios.
This paper analyzes how war memories are often romanticized and/or popularized through representations of shōjo (girls) in anime.
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