Hiroshima Poets and Atomic Holocaust

Richard Minear

Tuesday, 08 Nov 1994 at 12:00 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

Richard Minear is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. He is the editor and translator of Yoshida Misuru's Requiem for Battleship Yamato and Hiroshima: Three Witnesses and the author of Japanese Tradition and Western Law: Emperor, State, and Law in the Thought of Hozumi Yatsuka and Victor's Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial.
Part of the World Affairs Series: Hiroshima - Fifty Years After

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