Ben-Ami Shillony

Biographic Data

ID548784
NAMEBen-Ami Shillony
GIVEN NAMESBen-Ami
FAMILY NAMEShillony
SIGNATURESHILLONY B
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX1

  • Revolt in Japan: The Young Officers and the February 26, 1936 Incident

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyBOOKRevolt in Japan2015

    "Revere the Emperor, Destroy the Traitors"—armed with this slogan, on February 26, 1936. Rebellious Japanese troops led by members of the Young Officers' Movement seized the center of Tokyo and murdered several prominent officials. The Young Officers wanted a "Showa Restoration" whereby political and economic power would be restored to the Emperor and people. The privileged classes were to be abolished, wealth redistributed, and the state, rather…

  • Emperors of Modern Japan

    Ben-Ami ShillonyBOOKThe emperors of modern Japan2008

  • The Emperors of Modern Japan

    Ben‐Ami Shillony, Ben-Ami ShillonyBOOKThe emperors of modern Japan2008

    The Japanese emperors, a peculiar and unique phenomenon in modern times, are the subject of this important handbook edited by Ben-Ami Shillony. An international team of leading scholars looks at these emperors - Meiji (Mutsuhito), Taishō (Yoshihito), Shōwa (Hirohito), and the present emperor Akihito – both as personalities, and as a constantly developing institution. It becomes clear that both the personalities, and the periods in which they reig…

  • Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power (review)

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2006

    Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post- White Power. By David Williams. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2004. xxvi, 238 pages. $125.00, cloth; $40.95, paper

  • Enigma Of The Emperors: Sacred Subservience In Japanese History

    Open AccessBen-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyBOOKEnigma Of The Emperors2005

    "This study on the institution of the Japanese emperors, from their mythological beginnings to the present day, focuses on the enigma of the institution itself, namely, the extraordinary continuity of the Japanese dynasty, which is unknown anywhere else in the world, yet which is now at risk on account of more recent laws of succession."--BOOK JACKET

  • Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyBOOKEnigma of the Emperors2003

    This important new and original study on the institution of the Japanese emperors, from their mythological beginnings to the present day, focuses on the enigma of the institution itself, namely, the extraordinary continuity of the Japanese dynasty, which is unknown anywhere else in the world, yet which is now at risk on account of more recent laws of succession. The prisms through which this remarkable achievement is examined are the notions of d…

  • Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2002

  • The Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1997Cited by: 1

    This is a reassessment of Emperor Hirohito's reign and a social portrait of the 20th-century transformation of Japan. Hirohito was one of the longest reigning monarchs in world history. Coming to power in 1926, he presided over the disaster of the depression, the total mobilization of World War II, and the fireballs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, followed by more than 40 years of recovery. Unprecedented levels of traffic, smog, and skyscrapers herald…

  • Showa: The Japan of Hirohito, by Stephen R. Graubard and Carol Gluck

    Open AccessBen-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1993Cited by: 1

    This stimulating and comprehensive (Kirkus Reviews) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japan's history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important, substantial Introduction by Carol Gluck, the volume explores the strengths of the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy and Japan's political culture, Japan's achievements in technology and the arts, and its relations with othe…

  • The Jews and the Japanese: The Successful Outsiders

    Sheila K Johnson, Ben-Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1993Cited by: 3

  • Group Psychology of the Japanese in Wartime

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1992Cited by: 1

  • Democracy and Modernity: International Colloquium on the Centenary of David Ben-Gurion

    Shmuel N Eisenstadt, Seymour Martin Lipset et al.BOOKDemocracy and Modernity1991

    Democracy and Modernity presents a colloquium of scholars on the present state of democracy in many parts of the globe, in both developed and developing countries. Where does it stand firm, and where is it on shifting ground? What are the conditions necessary for the consolidation of democracy, and what difficulties face those countries where a stable democratic regime is still a hope for the future? How do the political traditions of a country's…

  • Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyBOOKPolitics and culture in wartime…1991

    The Pacific War was the most traumatic experience for Japan in modern times. This book examines the politics and culture of Japan during this period: the establishment of the wartime regime, its character and limitations; the actions and reactions of the emperor, the bureaucrats, and the politicians; the deposing of the Prime Minister in the middle of the war; political developments under his successors; the role of the press; the behaviour of in…

  • The Dual Image of the Japanese Emperior

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989

  • An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan, 1931-1945

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1988

  • Individualism and Socialism: Kawai Eijiro's Life and Thought (1891-1944)

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1988

  • War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyREVIEWJournal of Japanese Studies1988

    WAR WITHOUT MERCY: RACE AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC WAR. By John W. Dower. New York: Pantheon, 1986, 398 pp. $22.50. All those who were beyond infancy at the time of Pearl Harbor know that racism was a powerful and malign element on both sides of the Japanese-American war, but this has receded from historical consciousness over the decades. John Dower, an American historian of modern Japanese culture, has brilliantly described and analyzed that raci…

  • The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1987Cited by: 1

    1. Saionji's Emergence as Genro The Saionji-Katsura Compromise 2. The Genro 3. Saionji's Participation in the Genro Group 1913-1919 4. The Turning Point Saionji's Domination of the Genro Group 5. Saionji and the Last Genro Party Governments and Saionji Diplomacy 6. The Saionji Group Under Attack 7. From Political Actor to Political Commentator Saionji's Last Years 1937-1940. Summary and Conclusion. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index

  • Universities and Students in Wartime Japan

    Open AccessBen-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies1986Cited by: 1References: 4

    Japan possessed a sophisticated network of institutions of higher education before World War II. There was repression on the campuses of colleges and universities, but it was less severe than that in the totalitarian countries of the time. The war placed great demands on higher education and forced it to change. New universities, colleges, and research institutes were established; more students were enrolled; and more women entered colleges. The …

  • The Issue of War. States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1986

  • Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1985

  • The Princess of the Dragon Palace. A New Shinto Sect is Born

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami ShillonyARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1984

  • Emperor Hirohito and His Chief Aide-De-Camp: The Honjo Diary

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1984

  • My Thirty-Three Years' Dream. The Autobiography of Miyazaki Toten

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1984

  • Konoe Fumimaro: A Political Biography

    Ben-Ami Shillony, Ben‐Ami Shillony et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1983