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The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (Updated Edition) by Eiko Ikegami Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1997 ISBN-10: 0-674-86809-9 / 0674868099 ISBN-13: 978-0-674-86809-0 / 9780674868090 Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai hav |