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Defense attorney James Freeman stands at the lectern at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He represented Kenryo Sato at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Freeman

John Brannon, defense counsel, stands at the lectern of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He is reading his summation on behalf of Admiral Shigetaro Shimada. Shimada was one of twenty-five alleged major Japanese war criminals on trial.

John Brannon, fourth from right, is a panelist at a conference held in New York City. During this time Brannon was a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri for the law firm Dorsey, Brannon, and Dorsey.

John Brannon, right, stands next to two unknown Japanese boys. Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

John Brannon stands in front of a Japanese structure. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

John Brannon, center, stands next to Hideki Tojo, left, and Kenryo Sato, right. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Admiral Osami Nagano, Admiral Shigetaro, Shimada, Koichi Kido, and Shigenori Togo at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Tojo and Sato were Japanese war criminals.

Twenty-eight international defense attorneys for the Japanese war criminals who were a part of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East war crimes trial held in Tokyo, Japan pose for a photograph. Front row, third from right is John Brannon. All others are not identified.

Hachiro Okuyama (left), Admiral Osami Nagano (center), and John Brannon (right). Nagano was on trial for war crimes with his involvement with the Japanese during WWII. Okuyama served as Nagano's Japanese Chief Counsel; Brannon was his American Associate Counsel.

John Brannon, a defense attorney for Japanese war criminals sits with Sogi, right, and Okuyama, a lawyer, to his left. Original caption handwritten on the back: "The host Sogi, very wealthy, is to my right, Okuyama, lawyer, to my left. Now don't blame me - remember in school they taught "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

John Brannon stands at a lectern at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan in the courtroom during the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Brannon, defense attorney for Osami Nagano, who was on trial with 26 other alleged war criminals, announces the death of the one time Japanese Admiral and Chief of Staff of the Japanese Navy at the time of Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nagano died from an attack of bronchial pneumonia at the 361st U.S. Army Station Hospital, January 5th, after being moved from Sugamo Prison the previous day.