People
All of the individuals named throughout the Pacific War Crimes Trials archival materials are listed here. They include defendants, defense teams, prosecution teams, judges, and various others associated with the trials. Their names have been retrieved from a variety of documents, such as personal papers, official records, correspondences, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Each name links to the documents in which that person is mentioned.
| Name | Role | Position / Rank |
|---|---|---|
| A. N. Vasiliev | Members of the Prosecution | Major-General |
| A. T. Laverge | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Akira Mutō | Defendants | Vice Chief of Staff, China Expeditionary Force (1937) Director, Military Affairs Bureau (1939-42) Army Commander in Sumatra (1942-43) Army Chief of Staff in Philippines (1944-45) General |
| Alan J. Mansfield | Members of the Prosecution | Australian Associate Prosecutor Governor of Queensland, Australia |
| Alfred W. Brooks | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Alice R. Burke | Counsel for the Defense | Navy Lieutenant Commander |
| Aristides G. Lazarus | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Arthur A. Sandusky | Members of the Prosecution | Chief, Document Division |
| Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr | Members of the Prosecution | British Associate Prosecutor |
| Benjamin Bruce Blakeney | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Bernard Victor Aloysius Röling | Judges | Justice, Member from the Kingdom of the Netherlands Professor of Law, Utrecht University Founder of the Polemological Institute |
| Bettie Renner | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Calhoun W. J. Phelps | Members of the Prosecution | Assistant Chief, Document Division Captain |
| Carlisle Wallace Higgins | Members of the Prosecution | Assistant, Chief Prosecutor U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court |
| Charles B. Caudle | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Che-Chun Hsiang | Members of the Prosecution | Chinese Associate Prosector Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs |
| David F. Smith | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| David Nelson Sutton | Members of the Prosecution | Prosecutor |
| Delfin Jaranilla | Judges | Justice, Member from the Philippines Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines |
| Douglas L. Waldorf | Members of the Prosecution | |
| E. Richard Harris | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Edward P. McDermott | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Edward P. Monaghan | Members of the Prosecution | Chief, Investigative Division |
| Edward Stuart McDougall | Judges | Justice, Member from Canada Judge on the Court of King's Bench of Quebec |
| Eleanor Jackson | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Erima Harvey Northcroft | Judges | Justice, Member from New Zealand Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand |
| Ernest E. Danly | Members of the Prosecution | Chief, Document Division |
| Floyd J. Mattice | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Frank Stacy Tavenner | Members of the Prosecution | Assistant Chief Prosecutor Acting Chief Prosecutor |
| Franklin E. N. Warren | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| G. Osmond Hyde | Members of the Prosecution | |
| George A. Furness | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| George Carrington Williams | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| George Francis Blewett | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| George Yamaoka | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Grace Kanode Llewelyn | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Harlan F. Stone | Judges | 12th Chief Justice of the United States |
| Harryman Dorsey | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Heitarō Kimura | Defendants | Commander, Burma Expeditionary Force (1944 - 1945) Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army (1940 - 1941) Vice Minister of War (1941 - 1943) Supreme War Counsel (1943) General |
| Helen Grigware Lambert | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Henri Bernard | Judges | Justice, Member from the Republic of France Avocat-General (Solicitor-General) at Bangui |
| Henry Austin Hauxhurst | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Henry Grattan Nolan | Members of the Prosecution | Canadian Associate Prosecutor Vice-Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Army Brigadier |
| Hideki Tōjō | Defendants | General |
| Hiroshi Ōshima | Defendants | Ambassador to Germany (1938 - 1939, 1941 - 1945) General |
| Hugh Barnett Helm | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Ivan Michyevich Zaryanov | Judges | Justice, Member from the Soviet Union Major General of Justice Member of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR |
| Iwane Matsui | Defendants | Commander, Shanghai Expeditionary Force & Central China Area Army (1937) General |
| James J. Robinson | Members of the Prosecution | |
| James N. Freeman | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Jirō Minami | Defendants | Governor General of Korea (1936 - 1942) |
| John D. Shea | Members of the Prosecution | Special Committee for Analyzing & Briefing Interrogations |
| John G. Brannon | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| John Patrick Higgins | Judges | Justice, Member from the United States (replaced July 1946) Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court |
| John W. Brabner-Smith | Members of the Prosecution | Special Assistant, Chief of Counsel Lieutenant-Colonel |
| John W. Fihelly | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Joseph B. Alexander | Members of the Prosecution | Investigative Division, International Prosecution Section (IPS) |
| Joseph Berry Keenan | Members of the Prosecution | Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution United States Assistant Attorney General |
| Joseph C. Howard | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Joseph F. English | Members of the Prosecution | Special Committee for Analyzing & Briefing Interrogations |
| Ju-ao Mei | Judges | Justice, Member from the Republic of China Chief of the Ministry of Justice |
| Kenji Doihara | Defendants | Mayor of Mukden (1931) Commander, Kwantung Army (1938-1940) Army Commander in Singapore (1944-1945) General |
| Kenryō Satō | Defendants | General |
| Kiichirō Hiranuma | Defendants | Prime Minister of Japan, January - August 1939 President, Privy Council, 1936, 1945 Home Minister, December 1940 - July 1941 Jushin (Senior Advisor) to Hirohito |
| Kingorō Hashimoto | Defendants | Colonel |
| Kōichi Kido | Defendants | Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (1940 - 1945) Minister of Education (1937) Home Minister (1939) |
| Kōki Hirota | Defendants | Prime Minister (March 1936 - February 1937) Foreign Minister (1933 - 1936) Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1928 -1931) |
| Kuniaki Koiso | Defendants | Prime Minister of Japan (July 1944 - April 1945) Governor General of Korea (June 1942 - July 1944) |
| Kurt L. Steiner | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Lawrence J. McManus | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Lucille C. Brunner | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Luke Lea | Members of the Prosecution | Military Aide, Chief of Counsel Captain |
| Mamoru Shigemitsu | Defendants | Foreign Minister |
| Marjorie Nellie Culverwell | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Michael Levin | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Miyake Shotaro | Counsel for the Defense | Japanese Counsel |
| Myron Cady Cramer | Judges | Justice, Member from the United States of America (replaced Higgins in July 1946) Judge Advocate General of the United States Army |
| Naoki Hoshino | Defendants | Chief Cabinet Secretary, 1941 - 1944 Chief of Financial Affairs, Manchukuo, 1932 - 1934 Director of General Affairs, Manchukuo, 1936 |
| Okinori Kaya | Defendants | Minister of Finance (1941 - 1944) |
| Osami Nagano | Defendants | Supreme Naval Advisor to the Emperor (1944 - 1945) Chief of the General Navy Staff (1941 - 1944) Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet (1937) Minister of Navy (1936 - 1937) Chief Delegate, London Naval Conference (1935) Member Supreme War Council (1933, 1934) Delegate, Washington Naval Conference (1921 - 1922) Admiral |
| Owen Cunningham | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Parakulangara Govinda Menon | Members of the Prosecution | British India Associate Prosecutor |
| Pedro Lopez | Members of the Prosecution | Philippines Associate Prosecutor |
| Radhabinod Pal | Judges | Justice, Member from British India Justice of the Calcutta High Court |
| Robert L. Oneto | Members of the Prosecution | Provisional Government of the French Republic Associate Prosecutor |
| Robert M. Donihi | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Roger F. Cole | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Roger S. Rutchick | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Ronald Henry Quilliam | Members of the Prosecution | New Zealand Associate Prosecutor Deputy Adjutant-General of the New Zealand Army Brigadier |
| Roy L. Morgan | Members of the Prosecution | Chief, Investigative Division |
| Sadao Araki | Defendants | Chief of General Affairs, Department of the Office of Inspector General of Military Training (1931) Minister of War (1931-1934) Member of the Supreme War Council (1934-1936) Member of the Cabinet Advisory Council on China (1937) Education Minister (1938-1939) Member of the Cabinet Advisory Council (1940) |
| Samuel Allen Roberts | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Samuel Joseph Kleiman | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Seishirō Itagaki | Defendants | Chief of Staff, Kwantung Army (1936 - 1937) Minister of War (1938 - 1939) General |
| Sergie Alexandrovich Golunsky | Members of the Prosecution | Soviet Union Associate Prosecutor |
| Shigenori Tōgō | Defendants | Foreign Minister |
| Shigetarō Shimada | Defendants | Admiral |
| Shūmei Ōkawa | Defendants | Political philosopher |
| Shunroku Hata | Defendants | Supreme War Council, 1937 Commander, China Expeditionary Army, 1938, 1941-44 Minister of War, 1939-40 Field Marshal |
| Solis Horwitz | Members of the Prosecution | Deputy Chief Counsel for the Prosecution |
| Takasumi Oka | Defendants | Admiral |
| Teiichi Suzuki | Defendants | General |
| Theodore Goulsby | Members of the Prosecution | Chief, Administrative Division |
| Thomas H. Morrow | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Toshio Shiratori | Defendants | Ambassador to Italy |
| Travers Christmas Humphreys | Members of the Prosecution | Special Committee for Analyzing & Briefing Interrogations Assistant, British Division |
| Virginia Bowman | Members of the Prosecution | |
| W. G. Frederick Borgerhoff-Mulder | Members of the Prosecution | Netherlands Associate Prosecutor |
| William Donald Patrick | Judges | Justice, Member from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Senator of the College of Justice |
| William Flood Webb | Judges | President of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East Puisne Justice of the High Court of Australia |
| William J. McCormack | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| William Logan, Jr. | Counsel for the Defense | American Associate Counsel |
| Worth E. McKinney | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Yale C. Maxon | Members of the Prosecution | |
| Yoshijiro Umezu | Defendants | General |