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This paper aims at giving the theoretical framework on cultural basis for the tourism creation. Main topics are as follows: -What is the region? -Globalization / Internationalization ("kokusaika") -Culture / Civilization -Cultural Plurality and Historical background of the formation of "Others" -External Others / Internal Others -Two types of Exoticism -20th Century Art and Cultural Plurality -Beyond the Cultural Relativism and Cultural Universalism -Position of Japan from the viewpoint of Cultural Geopolitics -Rethinking Cultural Resources -Homo movens ---Human being as moving existence These topics are integrated, in the last section, into the conclusion: a human being creates himself by moving from a cultural framework to another. In this sense we are the existence which lives the "between". New Tourism's role consists in organizing those "betweens".