Stephen Large

Biographic Data

ID695643
NAMEStephen Large
GIVEN NAMESStephen
FAMILY NAMELarge
SIGNATURELARGE S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Adelaide
ORCID0000-0002-3201-6344
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

    Stephen Large, Stephen S LargeBOOKEmperor Hirohito and Showa Japan2010

    Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan.Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and exp…

  • Nationalist Extremism in Early Showa Japan: Inoue Nissho and the ‘Blood-Pledge Corps Incident’, 1932

    Open AccessStephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEModern Asian Studies2001Cited by: 2

    Less than fifteen months after Prime Minister Hamaguchi Osachi was fatally wounded by the right-wing fanatic Sagoya Tomeo on 14 November 1930, the ‘mysterious priest’ Inoue Nissho orchestrated the Ketsumeidan jiken , or ‘Blood-Pledge Corps Incident’, in which the former Finance Minister Inoue Junnosuke and the Director-General of Mitsui Dan Takuma, were shot and killed, on 9 February and 5 March 1932, respectively. What made the Ketsumeidan Incid…

  • The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1999

  • Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1998

  • Modern Japan's Troubled Pursuit of ‘Wealth and Power’

    Open AccessStephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEThe Historical Journal1997

    Japan through American eyes: the journal of Francis Hall, Kanagawa and Yokohama, 1859–1866 . Edited and annotated by F. G. Notehelfer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Pp. 652. £39.00. Sabotaging the shogun: Western diplomats open Japan, 1859–69 . By John McMaster. New York: Vantage Press, 1992. Pp. 201. $16.95. Japan and the world since 1868 . By Michael A. Barnhart. London: Edward Arnold, 1995. Pp. 198. £40.00 hbk: £13.99 pbk. The a…

  • Imperial Japan at war: On saints, sadists and cultural evangelists

    Stephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEJapan Forum1995

    Olive Checkland, Humanitarianism and the Emperor's Japan, 1877–1977. Macmillan, Basingstoke/St Martin's Press, New York, 1994. xxxi + 258 pp. £45. Sheldon H. Harris, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932–45 and the American Cover‐Up. Routledge, London, 1994. xiv + 297 pp. £25. Grant K. Goodman, ed. Japanese Cultural Policies in Southeast Asia During World War 2. Macmillan, Basingstoke/St Martin's Press, New York, 1994. xi + 223 pp

  • Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

    Tom Havens, Stephen S Large et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1994

  • Japan and the West

    Open AccessStephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEThe Historical Journal1994

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  • Interpreting Emperor Hirohito

    Akira Iriye, Stephen S Large et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1994

  • Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan: A Political Biography

    David A Titus, Stephen S Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1993Cited by: 3

    Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan. Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and ex…

  • The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-1991: Ambassador Joseph Grew and the Making of the `Symbol Emperor System

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1993

  • The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1993

  • The Emperor System in Modern Japan. Acta Asiatica, No. 59

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1991

  • Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1991Cited by: 1

    Society as moral community - the making of a myth founding of the Kyochokai Kyochokai visions of industrial society to create society anew the moral community in crisis

  • Emperor Hirohito and Early Showa Japan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1991

  • Hirohito and His Times: A Japanese Perspective

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1991

  • British perspectives on Emperor Hirohito

    Stephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEJapanese Studies1989

    (1989). 2. British perspectives on Emperor Hirohito. Japanese Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 9-11

  • The Birth of the Japanese Labor Movement: Takano Fusataro and the Rodo Kumiai Kiseikai

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1989References: 15

    Few subjects have been so cursorily treated as the first Japanese unions. Yet their history contains much to intrigue the student of human events: The American Federation of Labor organizer who founded the Japanese labor movement; the Japanese Activists who spent years in AMerica studying unionism a major railway strike that won the hearts of the people of Japan; a major Japanese union newspaper with most of its copy in Japanese but always a few …

  • Imperial princes and court politics in earlyShôwaJapan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEJapan Forum1989References: 3

  • Discrimination and protest in modern Japan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEJapan Forum1989

    Ian Neary, Political Protest and Social Control in Pre‐War Japan: The Origins of Buraku Liberation. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989. pp.250. £29.95. Michael Weiner, The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan, 1910–1923. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989. pp.249. £29.95

  • The State and Labor in Modern Japan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1988

  • Buddhism, Socialism, and Protest in Prewar Japan: The Career of Seno'o Girō

    Open AccessStephen S Large, Stephen LargeARTICLEModern Asian Studies1987References: 13

    The interplay of religion and political protest is a familiar theme in Western studies of Japanese Christians who contributed significantly to the socialist movement in their country from the late Meiji period to World War II. Less well known is the fact that a minority of Japanese Buddhists likewise applied the ideals of their faith to political dissent in the movement. Their defiance of the State and the predominantly conservative Buddhist sect…

  • Deference and Defiance in Nineteenth-Century Japan

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1986

  • The Early Japanese Labor Movement: Labor and Politics in a Developing Society

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1985

  • Japanese Workers and the Struggle for Power, 1945-1947

    Stephen S Large, Stephen Large et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1984