War crime trials

Justice Ju Ao Mei stands in his chambers at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan during the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Mei was the representative from China.

This is a view of the funeral of Osami Nagano, who was an admiral of the Japanese navy and tried during the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. He died of a heart attack due to complications arising from pneumonia in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo before the conclusion of his trial. All are unidentified.

Members of the Japanese defense counsel of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East gather outside of a building for a group photo in Tokyo, Japan. Pictured from right to left, Shoichi Okamoto, Toshio Okamoto, Masayoshi Kanzaki, Tokisaburo Shiobara, Hiyoichirio Kusano, Shinji Somiya, Tsuruo Takano, Hanzo Yamada, Yutaka Sugawara, Chiu Hanai, Goichiro Fuji, Somei Uzawa, Nobuo Narutomi, Rokuro Usami, Hachiro Okuyama, Kiyoshi Ito, Mitsuo Miyata, Tatsuki Shimanouchi, Yoshitsugu Takahashi, Shigetaka Hozumi, Kinjiro Ohta, Shinichi Ohhara.

Sir William F. Webb, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Queensland, Australia, was the designated president of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. He is standing in his chambers at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

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, 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 next to an unknown man, center, and Elaine Fischel (right). Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Fischel was a legal secretary who worked with Brannon.

An unknown Japanese man sits at a desk covered in papers, possibly at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He presumably worked with John Brannon, a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals tried at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

Yoshijiro Umezu was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment

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.