Dead End: an economic and cultural history of Japan in the age of the great depression 1927 - 1937 (JapanGreatDepression).

The project presents an economic history and socio-cultural reconstruction of Japan in the age of the great depression; it is an attempt to demonstrate the depression's 'total' or multicontextual implications by outlining different but complimentary views of what was defined as the depression's core problems (and their possible solutions) within different social classes and within different strands of thought. Seen in historical perspective, it covers the period from the 'Shōwa financial crisis' (1927) until the outbreak of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937). There exists, as yet, no account of Japan's experience with the great depression in Western languages.

Keywords:Japan, financial history, economic history

Disciplines:Theory and methodology of literary studies