Ben Bruce Blakeney was an American lawyer.

Served during the Second World War in the Pacific theatre. In 1946–1948 served as a defence councel at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, and defended Shigenori Tōgō

Shigenori Togo

was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-American conflict during World War II...

, General Yoshijirō Umezu and Admiral Soemu Toyoda, who was found not guilty. Among his arguments were that aggressive war could not be defined as a crime under international law.
In 1949, he began work as a lecturer of law at Tokyo University. He was killed in a plane crash in 1963.

Works

• "The Japanese High Command", Military Affairs, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer, 1945), pp. 95–113 and No. 3 (Autumn, 1945), pp. 208–218