Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose)

Here's a historical fake of Iva Toguri D'Aquino, (born 4 July 1916, in Los Angeles, California, USA), who is frequently identified with "Tokyo Rose". She was a graduate of UCLA and had not left the United States at any time prior to her being sent to Japan to care for an ailing aunt just before the outbreak of the Pacific War. For a number of reasons, largely ignorance and misinformation from the State Department, she left the US without proper travel documents and found it impossible to return home when war was declared. She was trapped in Japan, unable to speak or read the language.

Eventually Iva Toguri ended up working as a typist at Radio Tokyo. In November 1943, Allied prisoners of war forced to broadcast propaganda, selected her to host portions of a radio show called "The Zero Hour". Toguri's radio name was "Orphan Anne", possibly in reference to Little Orphan Annie. She reportedly addressed in alternate as "Your favorite enemy, Anne" and "Orphan Annie". Neither Toguri nor any of the other several women who were part of the propaganda broadcast called herself "Tokyo Rose". The name was invented by GIs and applied by them to any female Japanese announcer. "Tokyo Rose" did not, in point of fact, exist.

After the Victory over Japan Day (August 15, 1945), Toguri was arrested on September 5, 1945 in Yokohama and was tried for treason after attempting to re-enter the United States in 1948. By this time she had married Felipe d'Aquino, a Portuguese citizen of mixed Portuguese and Japanese descent. Iva Toguri D'Aquino stood trial for eight "overt acts" of treason at the Federal District Court in San Francisco in July 1949.

Her former supervisors at Radio Tokyo, under government pressure gave perjured or otherwise distorted testimony that was instrumental in her conviction. Toguri was fined US$10,000 and given a 10 year prison sentence, of which she served more than six years. As the anti-Japanese sentiment of the postwar years began to recede it became clear that Iva Toguri had been framed. She received a Presidential pardon on 19 January 1977, from Gerald Ford and her citizenship was restored. She never saw her husband again after being arrested and taken to America for trial. Iva lived in Chicago, Illinois, USA until the time of her death on September 26, 2006, at the age of 90, in a Chicago hospital of natural causes.



Repost circa 2006. :mrgreen:

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