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Rose (alternate spelling Tokio Rose) was a generic name given by Allied forces
in the South Pacific during World War II to any of approximately a dozen
English-speaking female broadcasters of Japanese propaganda. The intent of these
broadcasts was to disrupt the morale of Allied forces listening to the
broadcast.The name "Tokyo Rose" is most strongly associated with Iva Toguri
D'Aquino. D'Aquino broadcast as "Orphan Ann" during the 15-20 minute D.J.
segment of the 75-minute program The Zero Hour on Radio Tokyo (NHK). The program
consisted of propaganda-tinged skits and slanted news reports as well as popular
American music.
Toguri was detained for a year by the U.S. military before being released for
lack of evidence. Department of Justice officials agreed that her broadcasts
were "innocuous". But when Toguri tried to return to the US, a popular uproar
ensued, prompting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to renew its investigation
of Toguri's wartime activities. Her 1949 trial resulted in a conviction on one
of eight counts of treason. In 1974, investigative journalists found that key
witnesses claimed they were forced to lie during testimony. Toguri was pardoned
by U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1977. American servicemen in the Pacific often
listened to the propaganda broadcasts to get a sense, by reading between the
lines, of the effect of their military actions. Farther from the action, stories
circulated that Tokyo Rose could be unnervingly accurate, naming units and even
individual servicemen; though such stories have never been substantiated by
documents such as scripts and recorded broadcasts, they have been reflected in
popular books and films such as Flags of Our Fathers. Similar rumors surround
the propaganda broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw and Axis Sally.
Toguri's advocates have long argued that other announcers better suited the
legend. These include the American Ruth Hayakawa (who substituted for Iva on
weekends), Canadian June Suyama ("The Nightingale of Nanking"), who also
broadcast on Radio Tokyo, and Myrtle Lipton ("Little Margie") who broadcast from
Japanese-controlled Radio Manila. However, during the war, journalists and
officials with the US Foreign Broadcast Information Service identified Toguri's
"Orphan Ann" as the woman "most servicemen seem to refer to when they speak of
Tokyo Rose" but characterized the "legends" of clairvoyance that "piled up about
'Tokyo Rose'" as "apocryphal".
Walter Kaner aired on US Army Radio during and after World War II as "Tokyo Mose",
answering Tokyo Rose’s broadcasts. In Japan, his "Moshi, Moshi Ano-ne" theme
song, sung to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down", was so popular with
Japanese children and GIs alike that Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper,
called it "the Japanese occupation theme song." Elsa Maxwell's column and radio
show in 1946 referred to Kaner as "the breath of home to unknown thousands of
our young men when they were lonely."
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EPISODES LIST
Tokyo Rose - Broadcast Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Describes Her Show Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Gerry's Front Calling British Pow Messages Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Gerry's Front Calling Canada & Uk Pow Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Gerry's Front Calling Us Pow Messages Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Marine Love Note To Tokyo Rose Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Misc Ep1 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Misc Ep2 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Mock Sign Off For Us Newsreels Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Mock Sign On For Us Newsreels Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - News Documentary Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Orphan Anne Sign On Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 1 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 2 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 3 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 4 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 5 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHK Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 6 Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - NHk Zero Hour Orphan Anne (Iva Toguri) 7 Tokyo Rose
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