War crime trials

John Brannon stands outside, front row, third from right, with other members of the defense counsel at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Others are unidentified.

John Brannon, seated, shows a document to Takahiko Kido, a member of the Japanese Associate Counsel. Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

John Brannon, left, stands next to an unknown man, center, and Elaine Fischel (right). Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Fischel was a legal secretary who worked with Brannon.

An unknown Japanese man sits at a desk covered in papers, possibly at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. He presumably worked with John Brannon, a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals tried at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East.

Yoshijiro Umezu was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment

John Brannon, left, stands next to an unknown Japanese man. Brannon was a defense attorney at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East representing Japanese war criminals.

Elaine Fischel, left, was a legal secretary during the war crimes trial in Japan for the defense. Seated next to her is an unknown Japanese woman that presumably helped work on cases.

John Brannon, right, sits with a Tokyo Shimbun newspaper reporter looking at a book. Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals.

Hideki Tojo was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944. As Prime Minister, he was responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, which initiated war between Japan and the United States, although planning for it had begun in April 1941, before he entered office.

Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-Allied conflict during World War II. He also served as Minister of Colonial Affairs in 1941, and assumed the same position, renamed the Minister for Greater East Asia, in 1945.