War criminals

Original caption: Among the alleged major Japanese war criminals on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are left from right (first row), Sadao Araki, Akira Muto, Naoki Hoshino, Okinori Kaya, Koichi Kido, Heitaro Kimura, (back row) left to right, Shigenori Togo, Kenryo Sato, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Shigetaro Shimada, Toshio Shiratori, Teiichi Suzuki, and Seishiro Itagaki. All others are unidentified.

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.

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.

General Kenji Doihara was a general in the Japanese Imperial Army who was instrumental in the invasion of Manchuria during World War II. He was found guilty and sentenced to death at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

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.

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.

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.