Lawyers

John Brannon stands outside, front row, third from right, with other members of the defense counsel at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Others are unidentified.

John Brannon is seated at his desk at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. John Brannon was a defense attorney for the International Military Tribunal of the Far East who represented Japanese war criminals.

John Brannon, seated, shows a document to Takahiko Kido, a member of the Japanese Associate Counsel. Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

John Brannon (left) stands with lawyer James Freeman of North Carolina. Brannon was a defense attorney at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. The are standing near a car. Pictured behind them is the entrance to a hotel that Brannon and Freeman stayed.

John Brannon (center) stands with General Hashimoto Kingoro's wife (left) and an unidentified secretary from the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan during the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

John Brannon, left, stands next to an unknown Japanese man. Brannon was a defense attorney at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East representing Japanese war criminals.

John Brannon, right, stands next to an unknown man outside of a building. Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. The back of the photo has Japanese writing.

John Brannon, right, sits with a Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reporter looking at a book. Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals.

John Brannon, defense counsel for the accused Shigetaro Shimada, reads an affidavit in which Shimada claims to have no knowledge of Pearl Harbor plans and atrocities by naval personnel under his command. Shimada was one of the 26 alleged major Japanese war criminals on trial at the International Military Tribunal for Far East at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Others in the background are unidentified.

The Navy defendants were interested in Nomura's story of the delayed Japanese notification of the Pearl Harbor attack. Reading around the table from left to right, Okuyama (Counsel for Kagans), Takahaski (Counsel for Shimada, Navy Minister), McDermoth (Counsel for Shimada), Admiral Nomura (Japanese Ambassador to the United States), John Brannon, Elaine Fischel, Yamaska (New York attorney), Colonel Warren (Council for Admiral Oka, one of the accused).