日本語版（中央公論新社、2006年）は第7回読売・吉野作造賞を受賞。New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Moscow to Tokyo and back again, he shows us a high-stakes diplomatic game as Truman and Stalin sought to outmaneuver each other in forcing Japan's surrender. Winner of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award Competition, History and American Studies. "Without doubt the best-informed book in English on Japanese and Soviet maneuvers in the summer of 1945..." ---Warren I. Cohen, Times Literary Supplement.