War crime trials

Ambassador Toshio Shiratori was a Japanese ambassador to Italy from 1938-1940. He was an advocate of military expansionism, counseling an alliance between Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan to facilitate world domination. Shiratori was found guilty of conspiring to wage aggressive war by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in November 1948 and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Teiichi Suzuki, who served as a lieutenant general in the Imperial Army, was the last surviving member of a group of top leaders convicted of war crimes. He was the primary planner of Japan's wartime economy, serving as state minister of the Planning Board from 1941 to 1943.

An unknown man sits in the examiner's box and is examined by the defense attorney in the courtroom while giving testimony for the prosecution against the Japanese war criminals during the War Crimes Trial. It was held in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. The military police officer standing next to the examiner's box is unknown.

The Honorable Justice Alan James Mansfield, associate prosecutor, introduces exhibits as evidence during the opening session of trail of the twenty-eight accused Japanese war criminals before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Others are unidentified.

John Brannon, defense counsel for the accused Shigetaro Shimada, reads an affidavit in which Shimada claims to have no knowledge of Pearl Harbor plans and atrocities by naval personnel under his command. Shimada was one of the 26 alleged major Japanese war criminals on trial at the International Military Tribunal for Far East at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Others in the background are unidentified.

From left to right, Gael Sullivan, Chicago, Illinois, Assistant Postmaster General of the United States; Millard Tydings, Senator from Maryland; and Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, St. Louis, Missouri attend the trial of Tojo and 26 other Japanese accused war criminals at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

The Navy defendants were interested in Nomura's story of the delayed Japanese notification of the Pearl Harbor attack. Reading around the table from left to right, Okuyama (Counsel for Kagans), Takahaski (Counsel for Shimada, Navy Minister), McDermoth (Counsel for Shimada), Admiral Nomura (Japanese Ambassador to the United States), John Brannon, Elaine Fischel, Yamaska (New York attorney), Colonel Warren (Council for Admiral Oka, one of the accused).

Army nurses attend the War Crimes Trial in Japan as spectators. From left to right: Captain Edna Lura of Roland, Iowa; Major Grace Alt of Baltimore, Maryland; Lieutenant Colonel Mary Philips of Freesburg, Wisconsin; and Colonel Florence Blanchfield of Washington D.C. They were seated in the distinguished spectators gallery in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan at the trial of twenty seven leading Japanese war criminals.

Original caption: General view of War Ministry Building Courtroom in Tokyo, Japan where twenty-eight major war criminals including Hideki Tojo were arraigned before the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. All are unidentified.

Admiral James Richardson, former Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, testifies in the witness box, at the War Crimes Trials of the twenty-seven accused Japanese war criminals. The trial was held in the War Ministry Building courtroom in Tokyo, Japan. Members of his party stand in the rear, left to right Captain J.J. Robinson, Admiral Richardson, Lieutenant P.S. McManus, and Commander C.T. Cole.