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Tokyo RoseBy: Thomas Hedrick
Information ● Young American woman● Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino● She left to Japan to study medicine and help a
sick aunt● American troops began searching for who may
have committed war crimes
Info. 2● Toguri was asked to become a broadcaster for
Radio Tokyo on the Zero Hour program. ● The program was part of a Japanese
psychological warfare campaign designed to lower the morale of U.S. Armed Forces.
● The problem was that Tokyo Rose was an alias
Info. 2● Brundidge and Lee offered her a significant sum,
which they later reneged on paying, for exclusive rights to interview her. Aquino agreed, signing a contract that identified her as Tokyo Rose.
● She was detained in Japan and brought under military escort to the U.S., arriving in San Francisco on September 25, 1948.
Questions● How badly was she sentenced? Aquino was
sentenced to ten years of imprisonment and fined $10,000 for the crime of treason.
● Did she die in jail? President Gerald Ford pardoned her on January 19,
1977. She passed away in 2006.
● How badly did it effect the army?Army analysis suggested that
the program had no negative effect on troop morale and that it might even have raised it a bit.
Bibliography● http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/
famous-cases/tokyo-rose
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