The legendary story of the announcer

The female announcer "Tokyo Rose" who worked for the Japanese army during World War II died.

During World War II, Japan used a new type of stealth weapon: broadcasting to demoralize the allied forces. The announcer tried his best to blow the morale of the American troops fighting in a foreign land, the most famous of which was a complicated "Tokyo Rose". A woman named Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was finally recognized by American media, and her experience became one of the biggest unjust cases in American judicial history. According to American and British media reports, this controversial woman died in a hospital in Chicago on the 26th local time, at the age of 90. Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's nephew William Su Hu told reporters that Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino died of natural causes at the * * * Medical Center in Illinois at 2: 30 on the afternoon of 26th, but he did not disclose the specific cause of death.

Then, Barbara Tremblay, a private speaker, made a statement outlining Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's life. However, her relatives did not accept an exclusive interview with the reporter, and hoped that the media would stop bothering the weather-beaten old man.

Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was a member of the "Tokyo Rose", a Japanese complex that destroyed the morale of the American army through broadcasting and propaganda during World War II. She was once regarded as a "traitor" by the US government, and was arrested and tried. However, her experience has become one of the biggest unjust cases in American judicial history: although she is in Japan and works for the Japanese government, she skillfully uses the convenience of her work to encourage American soldiers. In the end, former US President Carter personally approved her to resume American citizenship. The life of this "Tokyo Rose" is full of legends.

On July 4th, 2006, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was born into a Japanese immigrant family. As a student, she always used the name Eva. 194 1 June, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino graduated from UCLA, and then went to Japan to visit her menstruation. However, due to the ignorance and misleading of the government, she left the United States without a tourist visa. Unexpectedly, the "Pearl Harbor Incident" broke out at this time, the United States declared war on Japan, and Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was trapped in Japan and could not return home.

However, despite his pure Japanese ancestry, Kuriki Yuko knows nothing about Japanese. When she was in the United States, her family never spoke Japanese, did not observe Japanese customs, and did not eat Japanese food. Therefore, she was trapped in prison and had only one thought in her mind: to find a chance to return to the United States. In the international situation at that time, many Japanese-Americans gave up their American citizenship one after another, but Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino didn't want to. When the cruel reality shattered her dream of returning to China, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino bravely went out and began to try all kinds of jobs in order to make a living, during which spies often followed her.

By chance, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino got a job as a typist in Tokyo Radio Station. Later, because her boss found her English very authentic, he sent her to be an editor, corrected the grammar and syntax errors in the broadcast manuscript, and forced her to write the manuscript and make a program. At that time, the broadcast was full of mistakes, and some announcers didn't know professional knowledge, which was totally nonsense. Later, the officer in charge of propaganda selected a few people with real broadcasting ability in the broadcast, and appointed people with broadcasting experience among prisoners from the United States and Australia, which suddenly improved the quality of broadcasting. But later, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was sent to broadcast. Although she was very disgusted with this, in wartime Japan, anyone who dared to disobey military orders would be severely punished, and Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino crustily skin of head agreed.

At that time, in addition to playing music, all the information about prisoners of war, American news and ridicule of the allied war were played. Of course, the purpose of the Japanese army is to use the reports of the defeat of the United States and the allied forces to demoralize American soldiers fighting in foreign lands. In fact, before the Midway naval battle, these reports really exhausted many people. The most famous announcer at that time was "Tokyo Rose". At first, people thought it was a person and described her as "a temptress in the Pacific Ocean, seducing American soldiers with a dissolute and seductive voice". However, according to the post-war survey, "Tokyo Rose" is actually a complex composed of at least five people, and chestnuts are one of them.

Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's plan is "zero hour". Most of her programs play jazz, tell light jokes and broadcast international current affairs. She often introduces herself in such programs: "Your dearest enemy, orphan Ann", and she euphemistically calls American soldiers in the Pacific Ocean "orphans in the Pacific Ocean". Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino won the popularity of American soldiers with his gentle, witty, humorous and elegant style, and became one of the most popular programs in the Pacific battlefield. 1945 On April 9, 2009/kloc-0, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino married another colleague of the radio station, Filipe Daquino, a Portuguese of Japanese descent. 1in August, 945, the allied forces landed in Japan, and one of the topics that reporters rushed to report was "Tokyo Rose". Before the Japanese surrender, the US Bureau of War Information released a news report saying: "Tokyo Rose doesn't exist, the name is fabricated ..." However, skeptical reporters were unwilling to give up the great opportunity to interview, and one of them, Clark Lee, targeted Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino after going deep into Radio Tokyo.

On, Clark asked Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino to meet him at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Clark brought a contract worth $2,000, saying that as long as he was interviewed by Cosmopolitan magazine and signed a document to prove that he was the only "Tokyo Rose", he could get the money. Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino tried to return to China after the war, but Walter Winchell, a well-known pioneer reporter of American radio station at that time, suspected that she was probably a member of the "Tokyo Rose" and accused the US government of not punishing this "traitor", thus blocking Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's way back to China. Therefore, thinking of returning to China as soon as possible, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino signed the contract without hesitation as long as it can be recognized by American compatriots.

However, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was stunned by what happened next: she didn't get $2,000, and she didn't get the recognition from the United States. Because Clark told her that she was a traitor in the eyes of Americans, the magazine could not pay the traitor! Even more incredible, a month later, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and put into the Nested Duck Prison in Tokyo. 1948, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's first child was born. Unfortunately, the child died at birth. At the end of the year, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was arrested again in Yokohama and sent back to the United States for trial in July of the following year. Daquino was also allowed to go to the United States to testify for his wife. The only thing is that he must promise to return to Japan.

In fact, before the trial began, Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had signed a blank trial book and found her guilty. In order to prove Duan Liyang Guri's guilt, two Japanese-Americans, George Manchao and Damuji, who gave up their American citizenship, were forced by the FBI and the Justice Department to testify against them. After a trial of 13 weeks, 19, 10,6, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was charged with eight counts of treason, sentenced to10 years' imprisonment, fined as much as 10000 dollars, and deprived of her precious American citizenship. According to the records, the trial cost 750,000 dollars.

1956, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino was released on parole and received a notice to leave the country within a time limit because she was persona non grata. However, will a person who repeatedly claims to be patriotic do hostile propaganda and undermine the morale of his own army? Quite a few people question this, Wayne Mortimer Collins from San Francisco is one of them. He defended her almost free of charge during the trial, and continued to investigate after the trial, hoping to reverse the case one day.

Collins' efforts were not in vain. According to what he learned from American soldiers on the Pacific battlefield that year, the broadcast of "Orphan Ann" not only did not hit the American army hard, but greatly boosted morale. She plays jazz music that Americans like to listen to, tells jokes to the audience and deliberately avoids burning sentences. Therefore, even after the war, many American soldiers are still unforgettable. It should be said that Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino is using its own strength to wage war against the Japanese in a special way and to be patriotic in a special way. Collins' discovery caught the attention of the FBI. The FBI sent someone to investigate again, which confirmed the result of Collins, and Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino finally made compensation.

1977, U.S president Jimmy Carter announced a presidential amnesty, and Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's American citizenship was restored. And her story was once passed down as a much-told story. David nail Dale, a retired veteran, proposed to erect a monument to Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino. The inscription reads: "Pay tribute to Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's loyalty and courage. Her patriotism has never changed. "

Nevertheless, many people still have not forgotten Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's connection with the mysterious "Tokyo Rose". When National Geographic magazine published an article commemorating the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, it compared the treason broadcast of Hannah Hanoi with the well-known Sue of Tokyo Rose, and some TV commentators often associated it with the notorious traitor.

Ron Yates is one of the few journalists who interviewed Li. His telephone number in Chicago and Tokyo was 1974-1977. He said: "In fact, the mystery is hard to dissipate, and people are always more willing to believe fabricated things than facts. Moreover, the people simply don't believe that the US government will be so cruel and so scheming that it will plan a trial to force witnesses to lie! " Looking back, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino chose silence and lived quietly in Andersonville, Sweden. 1980, she divorced her husband and never met again. In order to make a living, she opened an oriental gift shop on Monte Avenue in Sibel, north of Chicago, but few people knew her true identity.

199 1, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino once again accepted Yates' interview in a low-key manner. At that time, she repeatedly stressed that although she wanted others to know more about her experience, she definitely didn't want to be publicized, because a press conference that year actually made her life different. Therefore, Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's family and friends carefully kept this secret for her. Niece Joanne Huli said, "She has stopped talking about this past." My nephew William said, "She didn't say anything, but we didn't ask anything."

It is reported that for more than 10 years, Hollywood producer Barbara Tramblay has been trying to put Iva Ikuko Toguri D 'Aquino's story on the screen. Frank de laporte, the director of Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, announced that he would finish the work. Delaport is discussing the script with christopher hampton. He said: "This is a shocking true story. It tells the great courage and integrity of individuals in the face of fierce public sentiment, media evil, cultural and racial hatred and judicial injustice. "