13 Facts About Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is a Japanese-American historian specializing in modern Russian and Soviet history and the relations between Russia, Japan, and the United States.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was director of the Cold War Studies program until his retirement in 2016.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa studied international relations and Soviet history at University of Washington, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1969.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is known for Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, a study of diplomacy and the end of the allied war against Japan.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa published The February Revolution: Petrograd 1917 in 1980.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa revised and updated the original book, re-evaluating the role of the liberals as active participants in the revolution.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has embarked on new research on a social history of the Russian Revolution, focusing on crime, police, and mob justice.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa published, Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd, in 2017.

Recent Russo-Japanese relations are the second area on which Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has done research.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's research resulted in the publication The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations in 1998.

The third area of research Tsuyoshi Hasegawa has conducted is an international history involving the Soviet Union, the United States, and Japan in ending the allied war with Japan.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa published a book, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, challenging the widely accepted orthodox view that the atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the most decisive factor in Japan's decision to surrender ending the war against Japan.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa puts forward the view that the Soviet entry into the war, by breaking of the Neutrality Pact, played a more important role than the atomic bombs in Japan's decision to surrender.