Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Biographic Data

ID3596202
NAMETsuyoshi Hasegawa
GIVEN NAMESTsuyoshi
FAMILY NAMEHasegawa
SIGNATUREHASEGAWA T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ORCID0000-0002-2894-165X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • What role did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet entry into the war play in Japan's decision to surrender in the Pacific War? Conversations with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

    Open AccessTsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJapan focus2023

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a US citizen who was born in Japan, has taught in both countries. Applying his specialized knowledge of Russian history to an analysis of the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, he challenges the prevailing American view that the US decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. The prevailing view is based on two premises: first, the use of the atomic bombs was the only option available to th…

  • Reflections on Oppenheimer, the War in Ukraine, and Democracy in America

    Open AccessTsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJapan focus2023

    The recent popularity of the film Oppenheimer has revived the discussion of the making and use of the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945. Meanwhile, Russia's war against Ukraine since February 2022 and ongoing threats to democracy in the United States have made the use of nuclear weapons an urgent issue once again. In this timely context, the author draws on his research expertise to comment on the dangers of false narratives around nuclear weapon…

  • Comrade Kerensky: The Revolution against the Monarchy and the Formation of the Cult of the "Leader of the People" (March-June 1917)

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEHistory Reviews of New Books2021

    This book is neither a biography nor a historical narrative, but a study of how the cult of Kerensky emerged in the political and cultural context of the period from after the February Revolution u

  • Robert Service. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

    Open AccessTsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    Robert Service has written a superb book on the last sixteen months of Tsar Nicholas II and his family while they were in captivity, from Nicholas’s abdication to his and his family’s execution in Ekaterinburg. In The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution, Service has used a vast array of archival and published documentary sources that have not been used by serious historians before, especially the rich and unexplored Romanov …

  • J. Daly, Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

    Open AccessTsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJournal of History2019

  • What role did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Soviet entry into the war play in Japan's decision to surrender in the Pacific War? Conversations with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

    Open AccessTsuyoshi Hasegawa, Hibiki Yamaguchi et al.ARTICLEJapan focus2019

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a US citizen who was born in Japan, has taught in both countries. Applying his specialized knowledge of Russian history to an analysis of the US decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan, he challenges the prevailing American view that the US decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. The prevailing view is based on two premises: first, the use of the atomic bombs was the only option available to th…

  • The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917: The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaBOOKThe February Revolution,…2018

    The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution. Hasegawa presents in detail the intense drama of the nine days of the revolution, including the workers' strike, soldiers' revolt, the scrambling of revolutionary party activists to control the revolution, and the liberals' conspiracy to force Tsar Nicholas II to ab…

  • Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaBOOKCrime and Punishment in the…2017

    Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II's monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia's revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people

  • The Soviet Factor in U.S.-Japanese Defense Cooperation, 1978–1985

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJournal of Cold War Studies2013References: 3

    In the crucial period from 1978 to 1975, Japan jettisoned its “omnidirectional” foreign policy and embraced a closer and more integrated defense alliance with the United States. Concern about the Soviet threat was the chief motive for this shift. The deployment of Soviet troops in the Northern Territories (Southern Kuriles), the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the deployment of Soviet Backfire bombers and SS-20 nuclear missiles in the Far Eas…

  • Soviet policy toward Japan during World War II

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLECahiers du monde russe2011References: 1

    This paper argues that Soviet policy during World War II in Europe was from the very beginning integrally connected with its policy toward the Far East. At the Yalta Conference, Stalin agreed to join the war three months after Germany surrendered in return for the war trophies promised by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In April, the Soviet government notified the Japanese government that it had no intention to renew the Neutrality Pact, but assured the J…

  • Soviet policy toward Japan during World War II

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLECahiers du monde russe2011References: 1

    The Soviet Union fought the war against Japan in Manchuria, Korea, Sakhalin, and the Kurils from August 9 through September 5, 1945. 1 It is important to incorporate the Far Eastern theater into the general description of the Soviet role in World War II for three reasons.First, during the war Stalin always considered the Far East one of the important factors in his comprehensive strategy in the war.Second, the war that the Soviet Union fought in …

  • Response to Review by James J. Orr

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2009

    Response to Review by James J. Orr Tsuyoshi Hasegawa In his review of my chapter in my edited volume, The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (JJS, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2008), James J. Orr argues that “Hasegawa interprets ambiguous and sometime unambiguous statements in peculiarly convenient ways” (p. 527). It is important to respond to his criticism because Orr’s criticism questions the significance of the cabinet meeting on August 7 and thus goes t…

  • Russia and Historical Memories in East Asia

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaOTHEREast Asia’s Haunted Present2008

  • East Asia's Haunted Present: Historical Memories and the Resurgence of Nationalism

    Kazuhiko Togo, Tsuyoshi HasegawaBOOKEast Asia's haunted present2008

  • East Asia’s Haunted Present: Historical Memories and the Resurgence of Nationalism

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Kazuhiko TogoBOOKEast Asia’s Haunted Present2008

    This collection of essays by leading scholars from Japan, China, South Korea, and the United States examines how and why bitter historical memories have resurfaced in recent years as freshly virulent and contentious issues between Japan and its neighbors—especially China and South Korea. Moreover, it seeks to identify what set of conditions and what sequence of measures will enable these modern nations to manage, palliate, and exorcise the wrongs…

  • Response to Yukiko Koshiro's Review

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2007

    In her stridently negative review of my book, Racing Enemy: Stalin, Tru man, and Surrender of Japan {JJS, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2007), Yukiko Koshiro dismisses work as offering nothing new (p. 212) and rebukes my sloppy use of sources. My book examines decision-making process of ending Pacific War from an international perspective and in volvement of three major actors, United States, Soviet Union, and Japan. Koshiro's criticism stems in part from agen…

  • The Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan's Decision to Surrender

    Open AccessTsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJapan focus2007

    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. As the 1995 controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Mu…

  • Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950-1964: In the Shadow of the Monolith (review)

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2006

    Reviewed by: Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950–1964: In the Shadow of the Monolith Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (bio) Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950 –1964: In the Shadow of the Monolith. By C. W. Braddick. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Hampshire, 2004. xiv, 413 pages. $85.00. W. W. Braddick's book examines the impact of not only the Sino-Soviet alliance but also the subsequent Sino-Soviet split on Japan's diplomacy, economic relations wit…

  • Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaBOOKRacing the Enemy2005

    With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan--Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet mil…

  • Gosudarstvennost', Obshchestvennost', and Klassovost': Crime, the Police, and the State in the Russian Revolution in Petrograd

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies2001

    TSUYOSHI H A S E G A W A (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) GOSUDARSTVENNOST', OBSHCHESTVENNOST', AND KLASSOVOST': CRIME, THE POLICE, AND THE STATE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN PETROGRAD Under the tsarist regime, the police was the cornerstone o f the Russian state structure. The tsarist police performed not only the functions o f the maintenance o f public order, but also multiple administrative and judicial functions. According to Robert Abbot, a summary…

  • The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations: Volume 1, between War and Peace, 1697-1985; Volume 2, Neither War Nor Peace, 1985-1998

    Stephen Kotkin, Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000

  • Between Tokyo and Moscow: The History of an Uneasy Relationship, 1972 to the 1990s

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Joachim GlaubitzARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1997

    The International Framework Japan's Policies Japan and the Sino-American Rapprochement Japan's Aims The Territorial Question The Beginnings of Cooperation Japan's Entanglement in the Sino-Soviet Conflict Security Policy After Gorbachev

  • Hooliganism: Crime, Culture, and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 . Joan Neuberger , Victoria E. Bonnell , Lynn Hunt

    Tsuyoshi HasegawaARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History1995

  • Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Edith Rogovin Frankel et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1994

  • Changes in Soviet Policy towards the West

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Gerhard WettigARTICLEThe Russian Review1993