Richard H. Minear (; born 1938) is a retired Professor of History at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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. He taught a survey course of
Japan
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ese history and a Hiroshima seminar. Minear got his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. He is best known for his book about the Tokyo War Crimes Trials, ''Victors' Justice'', He has lived in
Japan
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for many years and translated
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works into
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(including ''Requiem for Battleship Yamato'', ''Hiroshima: Three Witnesses'', ''Black Eggs and Japan's Past'', ''Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey'').
In 1999, following a tip off from a student, Minear discovered a cache of wartime cartoons by
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel (;"Seuss" '' Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel.'' New York: New Press, 1999, and 5 subsequent editions. (held in over 1100 libraries, according to WorldCat)
* Minear, Richard H. ''Japanese Tradition and Western Law: Emperor, State, and Law in the Thought of Hozumi Yatsuka''. Harvard East Asian series, 48. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1970.
**Translated into Japanese as Minear, Richard H. ''Seiyō Hōshisō No Keiju.'' 西洋法思想の継受 : 穗積八束の思想史的考察 Tokyo: Translation rights arranged through Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1971.
* Gage, Richard L., and Richard H. Minear. ''Women against War''. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1986.
* ''War and Conscience in Japan: Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War''. Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2010 / 東京大学出版会, 2011. 南原繁 歌集『形相』から百首を日英両語で刊
:and the children's book
*Minear, Richard H. ''Through Japanese Eyes''. New York: Praeger, 1974. OCLC 804861