Photo taken by Michael Allen.

John J. Stephan, Emeritus Professor of History

Professional Experience

• Professor of History, University of Hawai´i, 1970-2001
• Sanwa Distinguished Scholar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts, 1989
• Visiting Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1987
• Visiting Professor of History, Stanford, 1986
• Senior Associate Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1977
• Japan Foundation Fellow, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, 1977
• Fulbright Fellow, Waseda University, 1967-1968

Selected Publications

The Russian Far East: A History (Stanford University Press, 1994)







The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925-1945 (Harper & Row, 1978)




• Hawai´i Under the Rising Sun: Japan´s Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor (University of Hawai´i Press, 1984)



• The Kuril Islands: Russo-Japanese Frontier in the Pacific (Oxford University Press, 1974)


• Sakhalin: A History (Oxford University Press, 1971)

  Current project:
  "Call of Ancestry: American Nikkei in Imperial Japan, 1895-1945"