Economic History, Trading Ports in 19th Century East Asia (Treaty Ports), Colonial Development Debate, Colonial and Postcolonial Migration
Overview of the research
I conduct research into the socioeconomic history of imperial Japan, focusing in particular on economic development, labour, and migration in Hokkaido and Karafuto. I also research the trade and interactions of Western, Chinese and Japanese merchants in the late 19th century focusing on Hakodate as an open trading port.
Research Interests
Treaty Ports
Hokkaido History
Karafuto History
Global History
Socioconomic & Business History
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences, Economic history
Papers
Kyoto and End of Empire Migration
Steven IVINGS
Japan Review, 2026
British veteran reflections on the British Commonwealth Occupation Force and experiences in Japan during the Korean War
Steven Ivings
Japan Forum, 27 Oct. 2025
‘In the Shower of Bullets and Smoke of the Cannon’: British Observations and Trade During the Northern Campaigns of the Boshin War
Ivings, S.
New Perspectives on Peacetime Anglojapanese Military Relations Old Friends New Partners, 2025
In the Black Ships’ Wake Early American Enterprise at Treaty Port Hakodate
Investigating the Ukishima-maru Incident in Occupied Japan: Survivor Testimonies and Related Documents
Jonathan Bull; Steven Ivings
The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus, Oct. 2021, Peer-reviewed, Corresponding author
Korean repatriation and historical memory in postwar Japan: Remembering the Ukishima-Maru incident at Maizuru and Shimokita
Bull, J.; Ivings, S.
Asia Pacific Journal Japan Focus, Nov. 2020, Peer-reviewed
“Fostering a Trade in Japan’s Northeast: The West Pacific Company at Hakodate in the 1860s”
Steven Ivings
Commodities of Empire Working Paper Series, Apr. 2020, Peer-reviewed
China and Japan's northern frontier: Chinese merchants in nineteenth-century Hokkaido
Ivings, S.; Qiu, D.
Canadian Journal of History, 2019, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
Return on Display: Memories of Postcolonial Migration at Maizuru
Steven Ivings; Jonathan Bull
Japan Forum, 2019, Peer-reviewed
Trade and conflict at the Japanese frontier: Hakodate as a treaty port, 1854-1884
Ivings, S.
Transcultural Studies, 2017, Peer-reviewed
Recruitment and coercion in Japan's far north: evidence from colonial Karafuto's forestry and construction industries, 1910-37
Steven Ivings
LABOR HISTORY, Mar. 2016, Peer-reviewed
Colonial settlement and migratory labour in Karafuto 1905-1941
Steven Ivings
2014, Peer-reviewed
British Trade at Hakodate during the Boshin War
Steven Ivings
The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), 2022, Lead author
Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present. By Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue. Oxford University Press, 2024. 304 pp. Hardcover, $161.00. ISBN 978-0-19-288747-4.
Steven Ivings
Business History Review, 2025
Robert I. Hellyer. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
Steven Ivings
May 2023
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama.
Steven Ivings
PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, Jan. 1970
Overcoming Empire in PostImperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding
Steven Ivings
JAPAN REVIEW, 2022
Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868-1937
Steven Ivings
JAPAN FORUM, Oct. 2022
書評 『サハリン残留日本人と戦後日本 ─樺太住民の境界地域史』 (国際書院、2019年)
Steven Ivings
2020
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India. Andrew B. Liu. Yale University Press, 2020.
Steven Ivings
2022
Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea. David Fedman. University of Washington Press, 2020.
Steven Ivings
2021
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto/Sakhalin. Svetlana Paichadze and Philip Seaton. (eds.) Abingdon: Routledge, 2015
Steven Ivings
2017
The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Class in the Age of Empire. Christof Dejung, David Motadel, and Jürgen Osterhammel, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Steven Ivings
2021
Jun Uchida, Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea 1876-1945, Harvard University Asia Center: Cambridge, Mass: 2011