In 1943, Japan was gradually defeated in the Pacific Theater, and in order to reverse the war situation, the Japanese army and the Americans played psychological warfare. The Japanese military top brass tried to make a "seduction radio" to let the sweet-sounding female announcer use English to persuade American soldiers to surrender American soldiers in the US military radio channel and disturb the morale of the Americans.
The plan was scheduled to take place on Radio Tokyo's Zero Point radio program, in which at the end of 1943 there was a sweet-voiced female hostess who claimed to be the dearest enemy of the Americans, and who would play some American music, read letters from family members, and broadcast the war situation every day at Zero O'Clock, although many of the war situations and letters here were false.
The original plan of the Japanese army was to stimulate the homesickness of the American soldiers in the middle of the night, so that these American troops were war-weary, but the Japanese high-level was too good at choosing the host, and the host's voice was too sweet, which made these American soldiers very moved, and they called the host "Tokyo Rose".
The sweet voice of "Tokyo Rose" in "Zero Point", the comforting words, and the music of the United States undoubtedly comforted the hearts of the US military, and the "Tokyo Rose" also became a public lover, and the idea of the front-line US military was simpler, and they wanted to go to Tokyo to see the beauty of the "Tokyo Rose".
In fact, "Tokyo Rose" is an action squad of 12 female anchors, but after Japan announced its surrender, only one person dared to stand up and admit that he was a member of "Tokyo Rose", and this person was called Tosa ikuko.
Tosu Ikuko is an American Japanese, stranded in Japan during World War II because of the outbreak of the Pacific War, at that time Tosu Ikuko had no source of income, forced to survive she joined the Tokyo Radio and Television Station, just when the Japanese army was preparing to implement the "Temptation Radio" program, Tosu Ikuko with a pure American pronunciation was selected.
After Japan's surrender, Tosugo thought she could return to the United States, after all, she had American citizenship, but the reality disappointed her. Tosu Ikuko was arrested by Japanese police in 1945 for "treason" and spent more than a year in prison.
After her release from prison, Tosumi wanted to return to the United States again, but her actions annoyed some politicians, who called her a "traitor" and demanded that her be stripped of her American citizenship. In 1948, Tosumi returned to the United States in many places, but was taken away by the FBI as soon as she got off the ship.
Tosumi was charged with treason by the U.S. federal court, eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison and stripped of her U.S. citizenship, and after serving 6 years of her sentence, Tosumi was released from prison, after which Tosumi has been trying to prove her innocence and prove that she is not a "traitor".
In 1977, with the support of lawyers and some World War II veterans, Tosumi finally received a pardon from U.S. President Ford, which finally cleared her of the crime of "treason." In 2006, Tosu Ikuko died in Chicago, USA, at the age of 90.
A Japanese-American who was forced to join Japanese radio in the wartime for her livelihood, but after the war, she was arrested by both sides of the war for "treason", such a life can not help but make people sigh, she is just an ordinary woman after all. What do you think about whether she should be Japanese or American?