Richard H. Minear is Professor of History emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His books include translations: Hiroshima: Three Witnesses, Kurihara Sadako’s Black Eggs, and The Autobiography of ‘Barefoot Gen.’ His best-selling Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel contains an introduction by Art Spiegelman.

Richard Minear is the author of Japanese Tradition and Western Law (1970) and of Victors' Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial (1971), and the editor of Through Japanese Eyes (1974; 4th edition 1994), and Dr. Seuss Goes to War (1999). He is translator of the Japanese battle epic, Requiem for Battleship Yamato (University of Washington Press, 1985), Hiroshima: Three Witnesses (Princeton, 1990), Black Eggs (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1994), and Ienaga Saburo, Japan's Past, Japan's Future: One Historian's Odyssey (2001). He is a Japan Focus associate.