Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore issues of anthropology of tourism in Japan, as an essential domain of tourism studies. Although various anthropologists insist on the significance of tourism as an anthropological subject, there are no studies employing the anthropological approach as means for understanding tourism in Japanese tourism studies. In order to establish a perspective for anthropology of tourism as tourism studies, we reviewed tourism studies, anthropology of tourism in the 1980s and anthropology of tourism in Japan mainly after 1990.
