Tokyo Rose

... was a collective nickname that was given by Allied troops to numerous broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.

Iva Toguri was born in Los Angeles in 1916. Her parents had emigrated separately from Japan, and they brought their daughter up as a Christian. She sailed to Japan in the summer of 1941, to visit an ailing relative. Following Pearl Harbor and the USA's entry into World War Two she was refused re–entry into the United States. She found work in Tokyo, but was forced by the Japanese authorities (along with Allied prisoners of war) to broadcast propaganda. After the Japanese surrender, she volunteered to give an interview to American broadcasters as 'Tokyo Rose'; she was subsequently arrested in Yokohama. She was imprisoned in Japan, but was released after a year as the US authorities could find no evidence of any wrongdoing. She gave birth to a baby in Japan, but it died soon afterwards. She was then arrested and transported to San Francisco, where she was tried on seven charges of treason. She was found guilty of just one: "speak[ing] into a microphone concerning the loss of ships". She was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for treason, but was released after having served six years. In 1977 she was granted a pardon by President Gerald Ford.

She married Felipe D'Aquino in 1946; they divorced in 1980. Iva Toguri D'Aquino died in Chicago in 2006, aged 90.