Macarthur Memorial Podcast

During World War II, the Japanese recruited dozens of English speaking women to be part of a propaganda broadcast aimed at lowering the morale of Allied troops in the Pacific. The broadcasters would report Japanese successes and describe the overwhelming advantages of Japanese forces. Often these reports were false, and most Allied troops knew it, but shows with the female broadcasters were just simply popular with the troops. These female broadcasters became collectively known to American troops as “Tokyo Rose.” At the end of the war however, only one of these women would be primarily identified as the “Tokyo Rose.” Her name was Ikuko “Iva” Toguri. Shockingly, she was also a U.S. citizen. But how did she become the legendary “Tokyo Rose” – and the seventh person convicted of treason?