With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story - the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan-Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective....

With the proliferation of ISDN and mobile communication systems, modern communication networks are becoming larger-scale, higher-speed, and more complex than ever before....