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

#191 of 61 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

A Time of Crisis

Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization

Kerry Smith

2001 • 512 pages

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 Tokyo policymakers. Smith sheds light on how average Japanese responded to problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

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#191 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Harvard East Asian Monographs is a 61-book series with 61 released primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, David C. Cole, and Yung Chul Park.