Tsuyoshi Hasegawa received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and has been a Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara since 1990. His areas of specialty are modern Russian/Soviet history and Russian-Japanese relations. He has written seven books, edited seven others, and written over 100 articles. His book Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005) received the Robert Ferrell Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2006), the Association of American Publishers' History & American Studies Award (2005), and was selected as one of the best non-fiction books by the Christian Science Monitor (2005). Its translation, Anto: Sutarin, Toruman to Nihonkofuku (2006) received the Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakubo prize (2006) and the Shiba Ryotaro Prize (2007).
Test Prep Network's Scott Mercer interviewed Professor Hasegawa regarding his book Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.