Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah
Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan
since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a
ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the
1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now
perceived as 'leisure', 'fashion' or 'boutique' hotels.
Representing a timely opportunity to capture and evaluate the
dying manifestations of an important era in Japanese social and
cultural history, this book provides a critical account of the love
hotel as a unique typology. It considers its spatial, aesthetic,
semiotic, and locational denotations and connotations, which
results in a richly nuanced cultural reading.
The love hotel is presented as a key indicator of social and
cultural change in post-war Japan, and as such this book will be of
interest to a wide and international readership including students
of Japanese culture, society and architecture.
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