The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan 067425466X, 9780674254664

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic a

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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
067425466X, 9780674254664

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the

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