Reflection 1 Reflection 2: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness
Reflection 1 Reflection 2: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness
Reflection 1 Reflection 2: Travel and Tourism Competitiveness
Urban legends in Japan have struck Japan attracted 31.19 million international
tourists in 2018. Japan has 21 World Heritage
in the hearts of the Japanese people for
Sites, including Himeji Castle, Historic
centuries. Exploring these urban legends
Monuments of Ancient Kyoto and Nara. Popular
reveals creepy tales of some of the scariest foreigner attractions
ghost stories in Japan. Many of these dark include Tokyo and Hiroshima, Mount Fuji, ski
urban legends passed from generation to resorts such as Niseko in Hokkaido, Okinawa,
generation intend to scare or teach moral riding the shinkansen and taking advantage of
lessons to Japanese children. One example of Japan's hotel and hotspring network.
this is the poem of Tomiko’s hell. It’s a very The 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness
disturbing Urban Legend, in which if you were Report ranked Japan 4th out of 141 countries
to read the whole poem, bad things may overall, which was the highest in Asia. Japan
happen to you, they say that your soul will be gained relatively high scores in almost all of the
condemned in hell forever to suffer. Another featured aspects, such as health and hygiene,
example is Kuchisake-onna, she wears a mask safety and security, and cultural resources and
and will ask you if she’s pretty. It doesn’t business travel.
matter what you say, she’ll still kill you. But if
you say so-so, she will get confused and you’ll
have the chance to run.
Reflection 3 Reflection 4
The Japanese of Animal is Dobotsu. I The earliest written history of Japan, which was a mix
of fact and mythology, mentions the four oldest color terms
learned the Japanese translations of different in the Japanese language: aka or red, kuro or black, shiro or
animals. I even learned how to form a sentence white, and ao or blue. However, it has been proposed that
like “Nani dobotsu ga suki desu ka?” or in these terms originally referred to the contrasting optical
sensations of light and dark, clear and vague. With time,
english, “what’s your favourite animal. It
these ancient color terms evolved to have the red, black,
proved useful so that I can learn more white and blue meanings in use today (as well as acquiring
information from my friends and family. other symbolic meanings, which we'll get to later).
However, traces of the original four colors persist in
This was a short topic but it proved useful modern Japanese. Most proverbs and surnames that
in many ways. mention color, for example, often involve these four colors.
Additionally, only these four colors can be prefixed with the
"pure" and "genuine" ma, to give us makka, or bright
red, makkuro pitch black, masshiro or pure
white, massao or deep blue. Similarly, the original
ambiguity of ao appears to have stood the test of time. A
vague, overlapping, blue-green color band, termed "grue"
in anthropological lingo, may be used to describe the bluish-
green (or greenish-blue?) of ao – which is notorious for
causing the Western confusion between aoshingou and
"green traffic light." Or aonegi and "green spring onion."