War crime trials

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.

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.