 | A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization Subjects: Sekishiba-machi (Kitakata-shi Japan) -- History; Kitakata-shi (Japan) -- History; Sekishiba-machi (Kitakata-shi Japan) -- Economic conditions; Kitakata-shi (Japan) -- Economic conditions; Depression -- 1929 -- Japan -- Kitakata-shi (Japan); Sekishiba-ma; 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 reactions of inhabitants of rural areas to the depression shed new light on how average Japanese responded to the problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside. |
