War crime trials

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.

Michael Levin, Defense Attorney representing Teiichi Suzuki at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan, stands at a podium.

John Brannon, defense attorney who represented Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, is seated at his desk.

Captain Alfred Brooks, Defense Attorney representing Juro Minami at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan, stands at a podium. Brooks was from Kansas City, Missouri.

Justice E. Stuart McDougall, representative of the Court of King's Bench of Montreal, Canada at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, stands in his chambers at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany before and during World War II. After World War II, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Koki Hirota was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937. Following Japan's surrender, Hirota was arrested as a Class A war criminal and brought before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. He offered no defense and was found guilty and sentenced to death.

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. All others are unidentified.

John Brannon, defense attorney for Japanese war criminals, presents to the court at a podium in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Others in the background are unidentified.

Captain George C. Williams, Defense Attorney representing Naoki Hoshino at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan, stands at a podium. Williams was from Virginia and served in the Air Force.