Tokyo Rose died
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092700133.html?nav=rss_nation
I've read some of the arguments for her innocense over the years and remain unconvinced. The one thing strongly in her favor is that I do beleive she was simply caught in Japan at the wrong time. But I find it highly doubtful that such an allegedly patriotic American would end up broadcasting propaganda for the Emperor. There were many thousands of American and other allied prisoners of the Japanese, (including many women); I don't remember all of them being offered cushy jobs in the propaganda ministry while secretly "helping" the Allied war effort. It just seems a little too convenient.
I've read some of the arguments for her innocense over the years and remain unconvinced. The one thing strongly in her favor is that I do beleive she was simply caught in Japan at the wrong time. But I find it highly doubtful that such an allegedly patriotic American would end up broadcasting propaganda for the Emperor. There were many thousands of American and other allied prisoners of the Japanese, (including many women); I don't remember all of them being offered cushy jobs in the propaganda ministry while secretly "helping" the Allied war effort. It just seems a little too convenient.
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