UNIT 31: SOCIAL ACTION AND COMMUNITY MEDIA
Unit 31: Social Action and Community Media Documentary- Dark Tourist; Japan What is this Documentary about? What is it's purpose? In this documentary series, journalist David Farrier travels the world in search for the darkest and most disturbing tourist spots. In this particular episode, David travels to Japan where he visits a number of strange and creepy locations. These places include a radioactive ghost-town, which was hit by both an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, a hotel where the staff are robots and the notorious Aokigahara Forest, also known as 'the suicide forest'. The purpose of this documentary is to act as both an insight into the darker parts of the world which are available to tourists, as well as question the ethicality of these twisted tourist trips. For example, while in Fukushima, Farrier and the other tourists were told that radiation levels would not exceed 2.1 on their Geiger counters as areas abo