Keenan, Joseph Berry, 1888-1954

Joseph Keenan, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, sits in his office in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

Joseph Keenan, Chief Prosecutor against the Japanese war criminals, stands at the podium at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

From left to right, Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, U.S. Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan, and Russian Prosecutor S. A. Golenski conversing at the War Crimes Trials in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Joseph B. Keenan, Chief of Counsel on Major Japanese War Crimes prosecution (left), talks with Attorney General Tom Clark (right). From: Beth Gore.