Lawyers

Members of the Counsel for the Defense, seated around a table in the courtroom of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. Pictured from left to right, Mr. Uzawa, J. C. Howard, A. W. Brooks, W. Logan, John Brannon, L. McManus, M. Levin, G. Yakamoka, and G. Blewett. The counsel defended twenty-six alleged Japanese war criminals in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

Attorneys representing ten nations at the War Crimes Trial in Tokyo, Japan, are present prior to the departure of Minister A. A. Golunsky for Russia. The attorneys gathered in Mr. Keenan's office. Left to right, seated Minister S. Golunsky, Russia; A. Comyns Carr, United Kingdom; J. Keenan, United States; Major General Borgeroff Mrlder, Netherlands; Justice A. Mansfield, Australia. Left to right, standing, Brigadier R. H. Cuillian, New Zealand; Henry Chui, China; R. Oneto, France; Pedro Lopez, Philippines, Brigadier H. G. Noland, Canada.

Original caption: Justice A. J. Mansfield, International Prosecution section from Australia, presents the Australian case at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. This was during the Australian phase of the War Crimes Trial of the twenty-seven accused war criminals that was held in the War Ministry Building Courtroom in Tokyo, Japan. All others are unidentified.

John Brannon, defense attorney who represented Admiral Osami Nagano, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Koichi Kido, and Shigenori Togo, stands at the podium at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Others in the background are unidentified.

John Brannon, left, sits at a desk with an unknown Japanese man. John Brannon served as a defense attorney for Admiral Osami Nagano, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Koichi Kido, and Shigenori Togo.

John Brannon (right) is seated at a table next to an unknown man. 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. Four unknown United States Military Police officers stand behind him.

John Brannon, defense attorney at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan, stands outside of a building wearing a suit. Photo is inscribed, "My love to you both. John Brannon."

George Yamaoka, Defense Attorney representing Shigenori Togo at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan, stands at a podium. Yamaoka proposes a dismissal of his defendant for the lack of evidence.

Roger Cole, Defense Attorney who represented Akiro Muto at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan, stands at a podium. Cole was from Detroit, Michigan.

Joseph Keenan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, sits in his office in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.