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Iva Toguri:
Anti-Japanese fervor after World War II led military investigators to brand Iva Toguri as the traitorous Tokyo Rose.
The Myth of Tokyo Rose:
"Tokyo Rose" was the name given to various women who broadcast anti-American propaganda for Radio Tokyo. They told morale-damaging tales of unfaithful sweethearts and bogus casualty figures.
Meanwhile, an American-born employee named Iva Toguri, in Tokyo to care for an ailing aunt, dreamed of returning home to California. But when she did, it was as a war prisoner. Toguri was falsely accused and convicted of being THE Tokyo Rose. She served six years in prison, finally receiving a presidential pardon in 1976. |