War crime trials

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.

Colonel Cyril Hew Dalrymple Wild of the British military sits in the witness box at the War Ministry Building Courtroom in Tokyo, Japan. He was a War Crime Liaison Officer, who testified for the prosecution that Japan violated Siam's neutrality, also to the mistreatment of prisoners of war by Japanese in trial of twenty-seven ex-leaders of Japan. He was killed the next day in plane crash on his way to Singapore.

Kuniaki Koiso was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea and 28th Prime Minister of Japan from July 22, 1944, to April 7, 1945. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment

Naoki Hoshino was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taisho and early Showa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo. He was brought to trial at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East and found guilty. He was sentenced to a life in prison but was later released in 1958.

Major General Myron Cramer (left), representative of the United States on the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, consults with his legal advisor Lieutenant Colonel William Kuder in the General's office in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

General Jiro Minami was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Governor-General of Korea between 1936 and 1942. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician. He was famous for having twice tried to stage a coup against the civilian government in the 1930s. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu was a Japanese diplomat and politician in the Empire of Japan, who served as the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs at the end of World War II and later, as the Deputy Prime Minister of Japan.

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.