When I was a child my parent would visit her store on Belmont Ave in Chicago, every Saturday. She would give me for free a candy called white rabbit. I looked forward to going to her store, a practice I continued well into adulthood. She was a kind woman who got a bum rap.
The real question is: Has anyone bothered to track down and prosecute those responsible for this miscarriage of justice? The men who pressured the witnesses?? I can't believe this part was skipped over. That is what perpetuates this kind of thing.
I visited her store a few times in 1991 - 92 to buy Japanese study aids. She was truly a very lovely person. Incidentally, that part of town was the center for Japanese expatriates from the1950s until the 1980s. There were Buddhist temples and Japanese grocers, bookhsops, and eventually even a video store (I'm thinking of Star Japan grocery and videos here.) It is the reason that the Japanese Cultural Center of Chicago got established there. The Japanese “boom era” called home most of the Japanese folks that lived in that area by the end of the 80s. Money flowed like water in Japan back then, unlike how it was in the USA at the time.
What they did to her was actually worse because she was born in America. They refused to allow her back into the country and then used that against her later..
I honestly thought Tokyo Rose, was a vital asset for there propaganda. Hearing your story. That has totally blown away the myth, Tokyo Rose was a sympathetic to Japan. Kept her American passport and identity. Did I now see what a child in a strange country to help the Only way she can. Brave Lady, great seeing her recognised, absolutely deserved. Proud American Lady. 👍👌😊
Iva got railroaded. She should have gotten a medal rather than infamy. Amazing that so many awful war crimes by the Japanese went unpunished yet she got jail time.
A.medal for telling america we have lost,, to go home ,japan is unbeatable? You have a twisted sense of morals. Getting your countrymen scared and killed is the exact opposite of patriot .
Your endeavor of this series is so very important, but please consider how even more important to the world that a single video compilation would be of all the times you could capture war survivors imploring future generations to AVOID WAR by whatever means they can. The human race must come up with a better way to settle our differences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s nothing virtuous about the mentality of “avoid war at all costs”. That was the mentality of Chamberlain and many others in the 1930s, only succeeding at knee-capping democracies and strengthening dictatorships. As for your reducing all war aims to mere “differences”, would you rather be a subject of Nazi Germany or a citizen of the United States?
This was good but I think it could be made better by exploring the fact that she worked with POW Major Coosins who was forced to produce content for the Zero Hour. Together, they made scripts which called the US servicemen "knuckleheads" and signed her on and off as "Your number one enemy Orphan Anne" They convinced the Japanese that knucklehead and number one enemy were very insulting when as you can imagine, they came off as endearing. She also, according to POW's, smuggled food to them. She really did help the US and I am glad she was recognized by the service organization before she passed and lived a long time in peace and harmony after being so dreadfully treated by the DOJ.
She truly looks like a wonderful woman! I've seen some footage of her doing her broadcasts and she has a twinkle in her eye! I'll bet she was thinking to herself "I'm "putting one over" these Japanese!" She was a victim of circumstance - trapped in Japan and then used by the Japanese government. I found out that her scripts were written by an Aussie prisoner (under duress) - that explains how utterly harmless they were. I'm a NZer and I can tell you that no decent Aussie would undermine the West! I'll bet that he too had a wry smile to himself, just as Iva Toguri did!
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 She refused to renounce her American citizenship, she tried to go home many times, she was forced on the streets because her Japanese family and the Japanese gov saw her as the enemy, she wanted to be imprisoned with other Americans, the little money she did make he sued to sneak food into American POW camps, she took on this job with an Australian who did it to sabotage the Japanese propaganda efforts including making inside jokes only Americans would get, insulting the Japanese, and purposely choosing non-American songs as not to make them homesick aside from playing her college fight song to give Americans morale, she was more American and patriotic that the very corrupt people trying to take her down. So yes it's sad big gov punished a true patriot!
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 they punished a U.S citizen based on false information and ruined her life. They didn’t punish a traitor. Have you looked into this at all?
@@infiniteyeet9235 I have proudly not looked into this and I do not care what actually happened. Too many people using this to push demoralization, anti-Americanism and nihilism for me to say anything other than Tokyo Rose was a traitor.
This poor young woman lost 4 years of her life to the war & then is wrongly convicted & incarcerated for over 6 years in the U.S. until 1956. All in all, this fiasco cost her many years of her life 1941-1956, 15 years in total. The people who perpetrated the LIES against her & perjured themselves in court, should have been themselves imprisoned. The fact that Ms. Toguri was eventually Pardoned & had her Citizenship restored is a case of too little too late. How shameful!
The Japanese Nisei heroic squadrons would have been/and living ones were are if any were alive in 2005 that she was awarded this medal. May her American spirit soar over her home. And I'm sure many Japanese in Japan were knowing of their marshal overlords' wrongs and hoped for the world to one day be all democratic. One day Russians Chinese and North Koreans will rise up and take back the countries that are theirs, and not the toys of a handful of murderous dictators.
Our government didn't set the "record straight" until it was in its benefit to do so... She should have been given a medal and welcomed home with open arms.. No, we effed one of our own over.. She was NO traitor at all.. IF anything, I believe this young lady (then) was doing the best she could under likely a big Japanese looking glass... That she wouldn't renounce her US citizenship should have said all they needed to know on who was "friend or foe"... At least she finally got the recognition she deserved...
When I was a child my parent would visit her store on Belmont Ave in Chicago, every Saturday. She would give me for free a candy called white rabbit. I looked forward to going to her store, a practice I continued well into adulthood. She was a kind woman who got a bum rap.
The reason I love these comment sections. What a neat story.
My grandma grew up going to a school that could literally see into Wrigley Field during the game. I think they would have got a long famously.
Tucker Carlson now regarded as Mr Tokyo Rose 🌹 by jealous and disgruntled Americans
You did a great job on this video. Very respectful, great footage, and concise.
She was more American than the evil people and corrupt government that tried to take her down. Bless her!
Wow I trust Bill Kurtiz and respect this tribute also thanks President Ford for doing the right thing
She gets ten years in prison and hanoi jane....nothing?
Lol hanoi jane is in the winning side, come to capture her then lmao
@@MyH3ntaiGirlThe war is not over yet. And there is no Statue of Limitations on Treason!
Gosh...I thought it was Hanoi Hannah.
War was never declared
The real question is: Has anyone bothered to track down and prosecute those responsible for this miscarriage of justice? The men who pressured the witnesses?? I can't believe this part was skipped over. That is what perpetuates this kind of thing.
No, seems they got away with it. What's new?
The woman lived 90yrs...helluva story..thats dope
Awesome lady, awesome story. Thanks for making and thanks for sharing. 👍🇿🇦
God bless the American Veterans Centers for partly righting this wrong.
I visited her store a few times in 1991 - 92 to buy Japanese study aids.
She was truly a very lovely person.
Incidentally, that part of town was the center for Japanese expatriates from the1950s until the 1980s. There were Buddhist temples and Japanese grocers, bookhsops, and eventually even a video store (I'm thinking of Star Japan grocery and videos here.) It is the reason that the Japanese Cultural Center of Chicago got established there.
The Japanese “boom era” called home most of the Japanese folks that lived in that area by the end of the 80s. Money flowed like water in Japan back then, unlike how it was in the USA at the time.
Yes this is how the United States Government treats our Citizens. Pieces on the chess board. Same is happening with US Citizens in Afghanistan today.
What they did to her was actually worse because she was born in America. They refused to allow her back into the country and then used that against her later..
Dont like it leave. America is thee greatest country on earth. Live somewhere else if usa is so bad then.
Well. Some things never change.
I honestly thought Tokyo Rose, was a vital asset for there propaganda. Hearing your story. That has totally blown away the myth, Tokyo Rose was a sympathetic to Japan. Kept her American passport and identity. Did I now see what a child in a strange country to help the Only way she can. Brave Lady, great seeing her recognised, absolutely deserved. Proud American Lady. 👍👌😊
Funny how time and truth. Shows up.
Her story is so sad.
Iva got railroaded. She should have gotten a medal rather than infamy. Amazing that so many awful war crimes by the Japanese went unpunished yet she got jail time.
A.medal for telling america we have lost,, to go home ,japan is unbeatable? You have a twisted sense of morals. Getting your countrymen scared and killed is the exact opposite of patriot .
Thanks for adding the old films of the Japanese broadcast facilities at 1:50, and another announcer.
Your endeavor of this series is so very important, but please consider how even more important to the world that a single video compilation would be of all the times you could capture war survivors imploring future generations to AVOID WAR by whatever means they can. The human race must come up with a better way to settle our differences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s nothing virtuous about the mentality of “avoid war at all costs”. That was the mentality of Chamberlain and many others in the 1930s, only succeeding at knee-capping democracies and strengthening dictatorships.
As for your reducing all war aims to mere “differences”, would you rather be a subject of Nazi Germany or a citizen of the United States?
This was good but I think it could be made better by exploring the fact that she worked with POW Major Coosins who was forced to produce content for the Zero Hour. Together, they made scripts which called the US servicemen "knuckleheads" and signed her on and off as "Your number one enemy Orphan Anne" They convinced the Japanese that knucklehead and number one enemy were very insulting when as you can imagine, they came off as endearing. She also, according to POW's, smuggled food to them. She really did help the US and I am glad she was recognized by the service organization before she passed and lived a long time in peace and harmony after being so dreadfully treated by the DOJ.
Her producer was one of the people she smuggled food too, I believe. That's part of why he requested her to work on the program.
She truly looks like a wonderful woman!
I've seen some footage of her doing her broadcasts and she has a twinkle in her eye!
I'll bet she was thinking to herself "I'm "putting one over" these Japanese!"
She was a victim of circumstance - trapped in Japan and then used by the Japanese government.
I found out that her scripts were written by an Aussie prisoner (under duress) - that explains how utterly harmless they were.
I'm a NZer and I can tell you that no decent Aussie would undermine the West!
I'll bet that he too had a wry smile to himself, just as Iva Toguri did!
These days she would be a highly paid dj...a celebrity
Glenn Beck had an amazing program on this. So sad what the US did to her.
The US made a lot of mistakes in history..
You think it’s sad the US punished a traitor?
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 She refused to renounce her American citizenship, she tried to go home many times, she was forced on the streets because her Japanese family and the Japanese gov saw her as the enemy, she wanted to be imprisoned with other Americans, the little money she did make he sued to sneak food into American POW camps, she took on this job with an Australian who did it to sabotage the Japanese propaganda efforts including making inside jokes only Americans would get, insulting the Japanese, and purposely choosing non-American songs as not to make them homesick aside from playing her college fight song to give Americans morale, she was more American and patriotic that the very corrupt people trying to take her down. So yes it's sad big gov punished a true patriot!
@@natowaveenjoyer9862 they punished a U.S citizen based on false information and ruined her life. They didn’t punish a traitor. Have you looked into this at all?
@@infiniteyeet9235
I have proudly not looked into this and I do not care what actually happened.
Too many people using this to push demoralization, anti-Americanism and nihilism for me to say anything other than Tokyo Rose was a traitor.
This poor young woman lost 4 years of her life to the war & then is wrongly convicted & incarcerated for over 6 years in the U.S. until 1956. All in all, this fiasco cost her many years of her life 1941-1956, 15 years in total. The people who perpetrated the LIES against her & perjured themselves in court, should have been themselves imprisoned. The fact that Ms. Toguri was eventually Pardoned & had her Citizenship restored is a case of too little too late. How shameful!
What a terrible injustice that was done to her.
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Man that pisses me off.
A $10,000 fine back then is insane.
The Japanese Nisei heroic squadrons would have been/and living ones were are if any were alive in 2005 that she was awarded this medal. May her American spirit soar over her home. And I'm sure many Japanese in Japan were knowing of their marshal overlords' wrongs and hoped for the world to one day be all democratic. One day Russians Chinese and North Koreans will rise up and take back the countries that are theirs, and not the toys of a handful of murderous dictators.
Our government didn't set the "record straight" until it was in its benefit to do so... She should have been given a medal and welcomed home with open arms.. No, we effed one of our own over.. She was NO traitor at all.. IF anything, I believe this young lady (then) was doing the best she could under likely a big Japanese looking glass... That she wouldn't renounce her US citizenship should have said all they needed to know on who was "friend or foe"... At least she finally got the recognition she deserved...
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Mark Felton made a video about her that has more details.
Mark Felton makes up facts. I stop watching that guy a long time ago.
@@dannyn.3539examples?
This is why I find it hard to have pride being an American- too many lies
Iva All American Girl.
During wartime the first casualty is the truth.
America! 🇺🇸 🗽
I remember world war II bets telling me about listening to Tokyo Rose mostly for entertainment purposes so much for Japanese propaganda right. 😈☠️👹👽
I guess she was forced to say these things
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she's so cute.
She then married John and ruined the band
What a bad rap. All those W.W.II movies casting aspersions on her. Now I know better.