Steven Iving

Biographic Data

ID262337
NAMESteven Iving
GIVEN NAMESSteven
FAMILY NAMEIving
SIGNATUREIVING S
AFFILIATIONSTwitter (United States)
ORCID0000-0002-3002-413X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • British veteran reflections on the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and experiences in Japan during the Korean War

    Steven IvingARTICLEJapan Forum2025References: 7

  • In the Black Ships’ Wake

    Steven Iving, Steven Ivings et al.ARTICLEPacific Historical Review2024

    This paper focuses on the micro-actors—merchants, whalers, and would-be diplomatic representatives—who followed in the black ships’ wake in anticipation of opportunities at the newly opened treaty port of Hakodate. Examining the backgrounds, connections, and activities of these actors, we show that American commercial activity in Japan contrasted with the almighty image projected by Commodore Matthew Perry’s gunboat diplomacy. Viewed from the per…

  • Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan

    Open AccessJonathan Bull, Steven IvingARTICLEJapan focus2021

    This article reproduces documents related to an aborted SCAP war crime investigation into the Ukishima-maru incident conducted during the Allied occupation of Japan. The incident involved the sinking of a repatriation vessel (the Ukishima-maru) on 24 August 1945 after it apparently struck a mine in Maizuru Bay, causing hundreds if not thousands of deaths among the Korean forced laborers aboard the vessel. The documents include the testimonies of …

  • Korean Repatriation and Historical Memory in Postwar Japan

    Open AccessJonathan Bull, Steven IvingARTICLEJapan focus2020

    This essay focuses on the historical memory of Korean repatriation in postwar Japan, by examining the commemoration of the Ukishima-maru incident in which thousands of forced laborers died when their ship sank after striking a mine. We show how local memory activists in Maizuru and Shimokita mobilised to present an alternative narrative to that on display at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum which overlooks Korean repatriation. It shows ho…

  • China and Japan’s Northern Frontier

    Open AccessSteven Iving, Steven Ivings et al.ARTICLEJournal of History2019References: 10

    This article examines the role of Chinese migrants in the development of Hokkaido in the last years of the Tokugawa period and the early Meiji period. The southern part of Hokkaido was the northern frontier of the Japanese realm until the mid-nineteenth century when one of its principal ports, Hakodate, was opened to international trade, and the island as a whole was opened to unrestricted Japanese colonial settlement. Hokkaido’s population ballo…

  • Return on display

    Jonathan Bull, Steven Iving et al.ARTICLEJapan Forum2019Cited by: 1References: 17

    In September 2015, the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum (Kyoto Prefecture) reopened to the public after renovation and an extensive rethink of its displays. The following month, after three years of hard work, the museum staff received the news that they had long been hoping to hear. UNESCO had agreed to inscribe a selection of the Museum’s documents in the Memory of the World (MoW) International Register, alongside other inscriptions such as…

  • Recruitment and coercion in Japan’s far north

    Steven Iving, Steven IvingsARTICLELabor History2016References: 6

    In 1905, Karafuto (Southern Sakhalin) became Japan’s second formal colony and the most sparsely populated territory in the Japanese empire. Despite its peripheral location and small population the colony was of important economic value, boasting considerable natural resources such as marine products, coal, oil and timber. This combination of richness and remoteness meant that enterprises in the colony faced an acute labour shortage. This paper ex…