A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization

by Kerry Smith

Book Overview

This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking about the countryside, as well as Japan's conception of its economic and cultural relationship to the nation, in ways that have important implications for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003705
• ISBN13: 9780674003705
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"