著者
岩村 沢也 Takuya Iwamura
雑誌
国際経営・文化研究 = Cross-cultural business and cultural studies (ISSN:13431412)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.14, no.2, pp.95-103, 2010-03-01

The sophomores and juniors who joined Prof. Iwamura's seminars in 2009 academic year focused case studies of local community development along with "B-Class gourmet" projects. Today in Japan, many local municipalities suffer from economic slowdowns and extinction of local industries. Therefore, they have begun to think of welcoming people from outside of their community by providing reasonable local gourmet food and meals so that they can activate their hometowns. There are many types of local gourmet courtesy. Students at seminars presented many cases of such and Prof. Iwamura summarizes their reports.
著者
岩村 沢也 Takuya Iwamura
雑誌
国際経営・文化研究 = Cross-cultural business and cultural studies (ISSN:13431412)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.1, pp.31-40, 2015-03-01

The Yosakoi Dance Festival started in Kouchi City in Shikoku Region in 1954 and the YOSAKOI-Soran Dance Festival started in Sapporo City in Hokkaido in 1992 are now two main dance cultures in Japan. Dance Festivals of these styles of dancing now take place in about 200 cities and towns all over Japan. In Particular YOSAKOI-Soran dance style has given to the world dance scenes two new aspects of body movements, a kind of new “groove”, which are the side-swing of the trunk of the body and revolving movement of the trunk of the body. This article reviews a short history of these two dance cultures and discusses the momenta of evolutions of these dance styles.