Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (born 1941) [ Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, "Racing the Enemy", inside cover.] is a Japanese historian, currently working at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current field of research include the political history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Soviet–Japanese relations. He is also speaks English, Japanese, and Russian which help him give a different perspective when analyzing the Soviet-Japanese relations.

Education

Hasegawa received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1969. [cite web
url= http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=35
title= Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
publisher= UCSB, Department of History
accessdate= 2008-03-23 ]

"Racing the Enemy"

In "Racing the Enemy", Hasegawa puts forward the revisionist view that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not decisive in the Pacific Theater of World War Two. Instead, Hasegawa looks to the breaking of the Neutrality Pact by the Soviet Union, and the imminent fall of Manchuria and Korea to Operation August Storm. [ cite web
url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1543754,00.html
title= "The bomb didn't win it"
author= Dominick Jenkins
date= August 6 2005 |publisher= "The Guardian"
accessdate= 2008-03-23 ] Other scholars disagree. [cite web
url= http://www.bu.edu/historic/hs/kort.html
title= "Racing the Enemy": A Critical Look"
author= Michael Kort
date= January/February 2006
work= Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society
publisher= Boston University
accessdate= 2008-03-23 ] [cite web
url= http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.1/br_112.html
title= "Book Review: "Racing the Enemy"
author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=
date= June 2007 | work= The Journal of American History |publisher=
quote= This is an important book, but it is also deeply flawed in its argumentation and unconvincing in its central argument relating to U.S. policy.
accessdate= 2008-03-23 (Subscription required.) ] [cite web
url= http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/#7.2
title= Roundtable Reviews: "Racing the Enemy"
author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=
date= January–February 2006 |format= links to PDFs |work= |publisher= h-net.org
accessdate= 2008-03-23 ]

Publications:

* "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan". The Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0674016934

* "The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations". Vol. 1: "Between War and Peace, 1967–1985". Vol. 2: "Neither War Nor Peace, 1985–1998". (Berkeley: International and Area Studies Publications, University of California at Berkeley, 1998.)"

* Edited with Jonathan Haslam and Andrew Kuchins, "Russia and Japan: An Unresolved Dilemma between Distant Neighbors" (UC Berkeley, International and Area Studies, 1993).

* "Roshia kakumeika petorogurado no shiminseikatsu" ["Everyday Life of Petrograd during the Russian Revolution"] (Chuokoronsha, 1989)".

* "The February Revolution of Petrograd, 1917" (U. Washington Press, 1981). Table of Contents, Precis.

References

External links

* [http://www.exile.ru/2006-June-29/book_review.html Review of "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan" by John Dolan] in The eXile, June 29, 2006.
* [http://www.history.ucsb.edu/people/person.php?account_id=35 Hasegawa's UCSB History Department faculty page]