USA / Japan: Iva Toguri, better known as 'Tokyo Rose' (1916-2006), American national turned Japanese propaganda broadcaster during World War II, September 1945

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American who participated in English-language propaganda broadcast transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II.

After the Japanese defeat, Toguri was charged by the United States Attorney's Office with treason. Her 1949 trial resulted in a conviction, for which she spent more than six years of a ten-year sentence in prison.

Toguri received a pardon in 1977 from U.S. President Gerald Ford.

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