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No one knows who invented the name, when it was first used, or even why a Japanese broadcaster should be dubbed 'Rose'--but two of the first American reporters in Occupied Japan, bent on finding "Tokyo Rose" at any cost, elicited the name of one of the women disk-jockeys on the popular Zero Hour program. Iva Toguri d'Aquino, foolishly, unfearingly let herself be styled, "the one and only Tokyo Rose." A UCLA-graduate, she had gone to Japan reluctantly in 1941 on family business. Red tape and dwindling funds prevented her from leaving, and an Australian journalist POW recruited her for the…
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2 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 1979Tokyo Rose, orphan of the PacificKodansha International · 248 pages · 9780870113543
- Other · Japanese · 1990Bungei Shunjū · 342 pages · 9784163442808
BiographyJapanese AmericansRadio broadcastersTrials (Treason)World War, 1939-1945Tokyo Rose, 1916-