Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (長谷川 毅, Hasegawa Tsuyoshi; born 23 February 1941) is a Japanese-American historian specializing in…Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (長谷川 毅, Hasegawa Tsuyoshi; born 23 February 1941) is a Japanese-American historian specializing in modern Russian and Soviet history and the relations between Russia, Japan, and the United States. He taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was director of the Cold War Studies program until his retirement in 2016. Hasegawa was born in Tokyo and received his undergraduate education at Tokyo University. He studied international relations and Soviet history at University of Washington, where he earned his doctoral degree in 1969. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1976. Among his awards and fellowships are Fulbright-Hays Research Abroad (1976–77), NEH grant (2002–03), SSRC grant (2002–03), Rockefeller Belagio Center Fellowship (2011), and a Fulbright Fellowship (2012). He is known for Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005), a study of diplomacy and the end of the allied war against Japan. The book won the 2005 Robert Ferrell Award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Hasegawa's research also includes the political and social history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and of Japanese–Soviet relations.
Shuntarō Itō (伊東 俊太郎, Itō Shuntarō; April 25, 1930 – September 20, 2023) was a Japanese scholar of the history of…Shuntarō Itō (伊東 俊太郎, Itō Shuntarō; April 25, 1930 – September 20, 2023) was a Japanese scholar of the history of science and the study of comparative civilization. Itō was an honorary professor of University of Tokyo and International Research Center for Japanese Studies, and a professor of Reitaku University, and the Chairman of Japan Seaology Promotion Organization. He was also a president of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. Itō was born in Tokyo, and obtained his bachelor's degree in literature from Tokyo University in 1953, his master's in 1955, and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1964. Itō taught at the University of Tokyo, as Professor, from 1978 to 1989, and in International Research Center for Japanese Studies from 1989 to 1995, and in Reitaku University from 1995. Itō died on September 20, 2023, at the age of 93.
Akira Fujiwara (藤原 彰, Fujiwara Akira; 2 July 1922 – 26 February 2003) was a Japanese historian. His academic speciality…Akira Fujiwara (藤原 彰, Fujiwara Akira; 2 July 1922 – 26 February 2003) was a Japanese historian. His academic speciality was modern Japanese history and he was a professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University. In 1980 he became a member of the Science Council of Japan and was a former chairman of the Historical Science Society of Japan.