![]() ![]() ![]() The moniker she would always be remembered of course, is that of Tokyo Rose. Tokyo Rose: The History and Legacy of Iva Toguri and Japan’s Most. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. In fact, she purposely would code her many on-air commentaries with satire against Japan since Toguri was hoping for an Allied victory so she could return home to America. Charles River Editors, author of The Titanic: The History and Legacy of the Worlds Most Famous Ship from, on LibraryThing. Although many assume she undermined the Allied efforts of winning the war, no concrete evidence has ever been presented to show that Toguri had any effect. Because Toguri was an English speaker she was offered a position as an on air personality reading news and playing popular recordings aimed at U.S. In order to survive and earn a meager living in Japan she became a typist and secretary at the broadcast center of Radio Tokyo. Unfortunately for Iva Toguri, after Decemshe was unable to return the United States. Toguri was an American citizen by birth and shortly before Japan's bombed Pearl Harbor, Toguri set sail for Japan to help in the caring of her ailing grandmother. ![]() An overwhelming series of unfortunate circumstances all came together to seal the fate of Iva Toguri when she was forced to join Japan's shortwave radio broadcast as an on-air personality. ![]()
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