The counts of the indictment on which the tribunal made findings were as follows. Counts 1 to 36 dealt with class-A war crimes, and counts 54 and 55 class-B and -C war crimes.

• Count 1: Participating as leaders, organisers, instigators, or accomplices in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to wage wars of aggression and wars in violation of international law
• Count 27: Waging aggressive war against China
• Count 29: Waging aggressive war against the United States of America (including the Philippines)
• Count 31: Waging aggressive war against the British Commonwealth
• Count 32: Waging aggressive war against the Netherlands (the invasion of the Dutch East Indies)
• Count 33: Waging aggressive war against France (the occupation of French Indochina)
• Counts 35 and 36: Waging aggressive war against the Soviet Union
• Count 54: Ordering, authorising, and permitting inhumane treatment of prisoners of war and others
• Count 55: Deliberately and recklessly disregarding their duty to take adequate steps to prevent atrocities