Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara. His book, "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan", was published by Harvard University Press in 2005. It has won various awards, including the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, sponsored by the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo Prize. Earlier this year, Stanford University Press published a volume edited by Professor Hasegawa, "The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals."

This event is cosponsored by the Department of History, CREEES, and FSI.

An additional seminar will be held on May 7th at 3:15pm, Bldg 200, Room 307. Professors Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Barton Bernstein, and David Holloway will be commenting on Professor Hasegawa's work.