Tokyo Rose

Iva Toguri D'Aquino was arrested and tried for treason. It was the most expensive trial in US history up to that time and possibly the most unfair, Iva's real crime was being ethnically Japanese in a postwar America that wanted revenge on Japan. She was convicted, sentenced to ten years in prison and subject to a massive fine. She was also stripped of her precious, carefully guarded, US citizenship.

As the anti-Japanese sentiment of the postwar years began to recede it became clear that Iva Toguri had been framed. She received a Presidential pardon in 1977, and her citizenship was restored.

Tokyo Rose never really existed, but her myth lives on, the ultimately unobtainable woman.

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