| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Heritage-making and the transformation of religion in modern Japan -- Heritage, religion, and sacralisation -- Heritage preservation in Japan: a brief historical overview -- I The prewar years -- II The postwar period -- III The "Age of World Heritage" -- Beyond Japan -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 The politics of Japan's use of World Heritage: From ratifying the World Heritage Convention to the ... -- Internationalization in the 1970s -- The nomination of the Mozu-Furuichi Tumulus Cluster -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 An introduction to multilateral heritage politics: Japan and the World Heritage Convention -- Introduction -- Introducing the World Heritage Convention and its Committee -- Japan's entry onto the international World Heritage stage -- Patterns of Committee practice -- Committee tenures and patterns of World Heritage nominations -- Sidelining the advisory bodies and upgrading nominations -- Patterns of Committee representation -- Rebranding of Japan's international sense of self -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 World Cultural Heritage and women's exclusion from sacred sites in Japan -- Introduction -- Tradition, heritage, exclusion -- Mt. Ōmine -- Okinoshima -- Creating heritage, erasing tradition? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Whose sacred site?: Contesting World Heritage at Sēfa Utaki -- Introduction -- Ganjū eki: the story of Sēfa Utaki -- The ticket booth: ownership and compromise -- The new "green space": butterflies and buffer zones -- Midori no Yakata Sēfa: manners matter -- Ujōguchi and Urōkā: forgotten history -- Ufugūi: sacred site, secular managers -- Yuinchi: contested nature.
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