D'Aquino, Iva Ikuko Toguri (1916-2006)

US traitor. During her 1941 visit to Japan, Pearl Harbor was bombed, making her return to the USA impossible. She began seditious broadcasting on Tokyo Radio. She was convicted of treason, spent six years in prison, and was pardoned in 1977.

She was born in California of Japanese descent. Her broadcasts led to her becoming one of the radio broadcast voices known to US soldiers as ‘Tokyo Rose’.