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During World War II, American servicemen regularly huddled around radios to listen to the “Zero Hour,” an English-language news and music program that was produced in Japan and beamed out over the Pacific. The Japanese intended for the show to serve as morale-sapping propaganda, but most G.I.s considered it a welcome distraction from the monotony of their duties.

They developed a particular fascination with the show’s husky-voiced female host, who dished out taunts and jokes in between spinning pop records. 

“Greetings, everybody!” she said during one broadcast in 1944.

Convicted as ‘Tokyo Rose,’ She Later Received Honors

“This is your little playmate—I mean your bitter enemy—Ann, with a program of dangerous and wicked propaganda for my victims in Australia and the South Pacific. Stand by, you unlucky creatures, here I go!”

American G.I.s concocted a range of exotic backstories for the woman they called “Tokyo Rose,” but few were stranger than the truth.

Her real name was Iva Toguri, and rather than being an enemy agent, she w Tokyo Rose: The History and Legacy of Iva Toguri and Japan’s ... SILEW