with that, let me introduce our distinguished speaker, tsuyoshi hasegawa

now professor tsuyoshi hasegawa has the floor. tsuyoshi: thank you, christian, thank you, hope. it is my pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss my book, "racing the enemy." and --my book, "racing the enemy: stalin, truman, and the surrender of japan." since its publication in may, morebook has provoked interest than expected. siteu know the internet devoted to diplomatic history, they have recently, they have organized around the discussion , and mobilizing the world-renowned specialist on the bernstein, the head honcho of this subject. holloway and [indiscernible] interested, you can log on and look at the site. it is quite extensive. richard frank's comments on my pages, singlespaced, in a comment. [laughter] his comments are not as along as i claim, it is only 20 pages, singlespaced, but my consisting of only about 18 pages singlespaced type. [laughter] tsuyoshi: so it is really nice to know that my book, in less than one year after the publication, is being discussed in such detail. what i would like to do today is , i would like to tell you why i published this book, a

now professor tsuyoshi hasegawa has the floor. tsuyoshi: thank you, christian, thank you, hope. it is my pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss my book, "racing the enemy." stalin, truman, and the surrender of japan." since its publication in may, the book has provoked more interest than expected. if you know the internet site devoted to diplomatic history, they have recently, they have organized a round table discussion of my book, and mobilizing the world-renowned specialist on the topic of the end of the war, bernstein, the head honcho of this subject. also, david holloway and michael gordon and richard frank. so if you are interested, you can log on and look at the site. it is quite extensive. richard frank's comment on my book is 38 pages, singlespaced, in a comment. [laughter] tsuyoshi: bernstein's comment is not as along as i claim, it is tsuyoshi: bernstein's comment is not as along as i claim, it is only 20 pages, singlespaced, but he uses font 10. [laugher] tsuyoshi: my response is consisting of only about 18 pages singlespaced font 12. [laughter] tsuyoshi: so it