The Logic of Conformity: Japan's Entry into International Society

by University of Toronto Press

In The Logic of Conformity, Tomoko T. Okagaki examines Japan's entry into the European state system in the late nineteenth century. Okagaki focuses on the extraordinary degree of conformity that Japan demonstrated in accommodating itself to Western norms of international relations within a very short period of time. By introducing a political science perspective to the study of Japan's modernization, which has heretofore been studied mostly as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442641886
• ISBN13: 9781442641884
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher