Defending the Enemy: Justice for the WWII Japanese War Criminals
Elaine B. Fischel was born in New York. Her widowed mother moved her girls out of the big city and raised Elaine and her sister in Southern California. Elaine attended UCLA, where she was a National Intercollegiate Tennis Champion.The end of World War II found Elaine working in Tokyo for two-and-a-half years during the trial of the twenty-eight accused Japanese war criminals. After the trial concluded, Fischel returned home and attended the University of Southern California School of Law. She went on to practice law for fifty-seven years.