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The article focuses on Yukiko Koshiro's negative review of the author's book "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan." The book examines the decision-making process of ending the Pacific War from an international perspective and the involvement of the three primary actors, the U.S., Russia and Japan. Here, Koshiro argues that Japan's policy toward Russia was based on rational strategic thinking in an attempt to reconstruct postwar Asian international relations by welcoming Russia presence in Asia as a counterweight to the U.S.

The editor of the book "The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals" responds to a book review by James J. Orr which appeared in "The Journal of Japanese Studies," volume 34, no. 2 (2008).