Tsuyoshi Hasegawa is Professor of Modern Russian and Soviet History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations, Vol. 1: Between War and Peace, 1967–1985; Vol. 2: Neither War nor Peace, 1985–1998 (1998); and Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005).