Tsuyoshi hasegawa biography of barack

Hasegawa was born in Tokyo and received his undergraduate education at Tokyo University.

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a US citizen who was born in Japan, has taught in both countries.

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Essay by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus

I have had a somewhat unique professional career. I was born in Japan and graduated from a Japanese university. I came to the United States to study Russian history, received my Ph.D. in the United States, and taught in the United States and Japan. I acquired American citizenship. I have made numerous trips to the Soviet Union/Russia to conduct research there.

H-Diplo Essay 255

Essay Series on Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars
8 July 2020

The History of My Career

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I have had a somewhat unique professional career. I was born in Japan and graduated from a Japanese university. I came to the United States to study Russian history, received my Ph.D. in the United States, and taught in the United States and Japan. I acquired American citizenship. I have made numerous trips to the Soviet Union/Russia to conduct research there.

Also, I wear two hats in terms of research interests. The first is the study of the Russian Revolution, and the second is the Cold War in Asia, especially Soviet-Japanese Relations.

I was an undergraduate stu

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The Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan’s Decision to Surrender?

The Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan’s Decision to Surrender?
Tsuyoshi HASEGAWA

Almost immediately following the end of World War II, Americans began to question the use of the atomic bomb and the circumstances surrounding the end of the Pacific War. More than half a century later, books and articles on the atomic bomb still provoke storms of debate among readers and the use of atomic weapons remains a sharply contested subject.[1] As the 1995 controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum revealed, the issues connected with the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continue to touch a sensitive nerve in Americans. Among scholars, disagreement remains no less heated. But, on the whole, this debate has been strangely parochial, centering almost exclusively on how the U.S. leadership made the decision to drop the bombs.

There are two distinct gaps in this historiography. First, with regard to the atomic bombs, as Asada Sadao in Japan correctly observes, American historians have concentrated on the “motives” behind the use of atomic bombs, but “they have slighted the effects of the bomb.”[2] Second, although hi

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