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(b. July 4, 1916) Radio Tokyo broadcaster during World War II.
In October 1945, General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters arrested Iva Ikuko Toguri d'Aquino, a program host on Radio Tokyo, which broadcast Japanese propaganda to Allied troops during World War II. Ambitious and at times unscrupulous reporters referred to her as "Tokyo Rose," the name given by American soldiers to all female broadcasters for Radio Tokyo. The name has since been associated primarily with her. D'Aquino spent the next year in jail, treated as a Japanese national despite her American citizenship. Her ensuing legal journey highlights both the continuing prejudice faced by Japanese Americans after the war and the paranoia concerning disloyalty in the United States during the early years of the Cold War (1946–1991).
Toguri had traveled to Japan in 1941 to visit a dying aunt and to see her parents' native land. She left the United States without a...
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