War crime trials

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.

Seishiro Itagaki was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and a War Minister. Convicted of war crimes, he was executed in 1948.

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.

William Logan, of New York City, defense counsel, stands at the lectern of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He was reading the individual summation for the defendant Koichi Kido.

General Heitaro Kimura was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held in Tokyo, Japan.

Admiral Takazumi Oka stands in front of a pillar. He was tried as a Japanese war criminal during the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

General Sadao Araki stands in front of a pillar. He was a general in the Japanese Imperial Army and found guilty of war crimes at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. He served a life sentence.

Akira Muto was a Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging.

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.