who was tokyo rose?

Answer 1

Tokyo Rose was a name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of several English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.

The name is usually associated, erroneously, with Iva Toguri D'Aquino (born Ikuko Toguri, July 4, 1916, Los Angeles, California), a United States citizen visiting relatives in Japan at the start of the war. In 1949, perjured testimony led to D'Aquino being convicted of treason by the United States government. She was released after six years, and on January 19, 1977, pardoned by U.S. President Gerald Ford, who also restored her citizenship


Tokyo Rose is also the name of a band hailing from New Jersey. They currently (as of August '06) have two albums: "Reinventing a Lost Art" and "New American Saint."

Answer 2

Iva Ikuko Toguri is the woman who was tried as Tokyo Rose .

Answer 3

Look, fellah! Like many questions on this site, yours can be answered if you'd only take the trouble to research it. The following is a straight cut-and-paste from Wikipeadia:

Iva Toguri (Wrongfully accused)
Main article: Iva Toguri D'Aquino
The name is usually associated, erroneously, with Iva Toguri D'Aquino (born Ikuko Toguri, July 4, 1916, Los Angeles, California), a United States citizen visiting relatives in Japan at the start of the war. In 1949, perjured testimony led to D'Aquino being convicted of treason by the United States government. She was released after six years, and on January 19, 1977, pardoned by U.S. President Gerald Ford, who also restored her citizenship.[1]

Unable to leave Japan after the start of hostilities, she took work at the Japanese radio show The Zero Hour, using some of her earnings to feed P.O.W.s.[2] She married Felipe D'Aquino, a Portuguese citizen of Japanese-Portuguese descent, in 1945. Later that year, Following Japan's surrender, two reporters offered $250 for the identity of Tokyo Rose. A monetarily tainted identification led to her arrest. Though she was released when the FBI and the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps found no evidence against her, influential gossip columnist Walter Winchell lobbied against her. Forcibly separated from her husband, she was brought to the U.S., and charged and convicted of treason. Released after six years, she moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Chicago Tribune reporter Ron Yates found her accusers, who admitted they had lied under oath, claiming pressure from prosecutors. A subsequent Morley Safer report on the television news program 60 Minutes prompted her exoneration by Ford.

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Conspiracy theory
Some conspiracy theorists have suggested[citation needed] that aviatrix Amelia Earhart was forced to make propaganda broadcasts after her disappearance in 1937, based on the possibility that Earhart's plane went down in the South Pacific Mandate area, which was under Japanese Navy administration before World War II.

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Answer 4

Tokyo Rose was used to demoralize the soldiers by telling them how bad things were at home & during war. Japan used several American speaking women to accomplish this. Now we use each other - men & women - Americans to discourage each other about the military. Maybe we should name them Beruit Jane & Jim.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Tokyo Rose was a name given by United States forces in the South Pacific during World War II to any of several English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. However, the name is usually associated with Iva Toguri D'Aquino who was tried for treason by the United States government.


Iva ToguriIva Toguri D'Aquino stood trial for eight "overt acts" of treason at the Federal District Court in San Francisco in July 1949. Neither Toguri nor any of the other women called herself Tokyo Rose: the name was invented by GIs and applied by them to any female Japanese announcer. During what was at the time the costliest trial in U.S. history (over half a million dollars), the prosecution presented forty-six witnesses, including two of Toguri's former supervisors at Radio Tokyo (both of whom later admitted to having committed perjury) and a few soldiers who could not distinguish between what they had heard on radio broadcasts and what they had heard by way of rumour.

Toguri, for her part, denied during the trial that she had committed treason. Ordered to make propaganda broadcasts along with other prisoners of war, Toguri claimed she and her associates subtly sabotaged the Japanese war effort. The American and Australian prisoners of war who wrote her scripts assured her she was doing nothing wrong and immediately after the war General Douglas MacArthur's staff and the United States Justice Department cleared her of wrongdoing.

When the United States press caused an uproar over her attempt to return to the United States in 1948, Toguri was put on trial. Her former supervisors at Radio Tokyo under government pressure gave perjured or otherwise distorted testimony that was instrumental in her conviction. Count VI (the only count on which she was convicted) claimed, "That on a day during October, 1944, the exact date being to the Grand Jurors unknown, said defendant, at Tokyo, Japan, in a broadcasting studio of The Broadcasting Corporation of Japan, did speak into a microphone concerning the loss of ships." The supervisor at Radio Tokyo gave the following evidence:

"I said to Toguri I had a release from the Imperial General Headquarters giving out results of American ship losses in one of the Leyte Gulf battles, and I asked that she allude to this announcement, make reference to the losses of American ships in her part of the broadcast, and she said she would do so."
Another co-worker testified that Toguri said:

"Now you fellows have lost all your ships. Now you really are orphans of the Pacific. How do you think you will ever get home?"
Toguri was fined US$100,000 and given a 10 year prison sentence, of which she served more than six years.

The case was later reopened and Toguri was granted a full pardon by Gerald Ford as his last presidential act in 1977. As of 2003, Toguri was a shopkeeper in Chicago.

Theorists have suggested a number of other possible identities for "Tokyo Rose", including Amelia Earhart who some believe was forced to make propaganda broadcasts in the years after her disappearance in 1937 in the South Pacific Mandate area, which was under Japanese Navy administration before WW2.

Answer 7

she played music that alot of the armed forces listened to during WWII in the Pacific. She also filled her brodcasts with alot of propaganda trying to encourage forces to stop fighting and lay down their weapons.

Answer 8

Looks like ya got some really good answers here.. The only thing I didn't read in there was while she was here (USA) I believe she attended UCLA

Answer 9

The japanese equivalent of Lord Haw haw!

Answer 10

It was a name given during WW ll to some female,English -speaking spreaders of Japanese propaganda.