Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's "enemy competition: Stalin, Truman, and Japan's surrender" revealed a new highlight to decide to drop the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. This is the first time in many cold war chess tournaments, as Hasegawa believes that the decision to abandon atomic bombs is to prevent the Soviet Union from obtaining great profits in the theaters of the Pacific. Hasegawa is the first chapter of his book "Triangle and the Pacific War" and details the relationship between Japan and the US immediately before the Second World War, just after the Yalta Conference.

Racing the Enemy of Hasegawa Tsuya: Since last year's publication, Stalin, Truman, and Japan surrendered (Harvard University Press, 2005). Critics of the major newspaper called it "brilliant and authoritative", "book of landmark", "America decided to use the atomic bomb to make a decisive analysis of Japan". Hasegawa used the materials of Japan and Russia heavily, the shine of the book increased. His multilingual resources may be a so-called important "international background" in his book.

Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa said that the participation of the Soviet Union in the war on the war in the war against the Soviet Union "had a greater role in triggering the surrender of Japan than the atomic bombs as Japan lost the hope of finishing the war through mediation in Moscow Critics on the bombing of American historian Gar Alperovitz in 1965 believe that the concept of nuclear diplomacy used nuclear weapons to threaten the Soviet Union early in the Cold War I believed. Although it is not accepted by mainstream historians, it is a place in the Japanese school history textbook.

Historian Takeshi Hasegawa said the atomic bomb itself is not the main reason for the surrender of Japan. Instead, he believes that it was the Soviet Union that entered into a war on August 8 and that the Potsdam Declaration, signed by other ally, forgave it. The fact that the Soviet Union did not sign this statement gave Japan a reason to believe that the Soviet Union can move away from the war. Until July 25, the day before the announcement, Japan asked Kono led diplomatic mission to come to Moscow to mediate peace in the Pacific. Konoe should bring the following letter from the emperor.