Biography
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, later widely labeled “Tokyo Rose,” was an American citizen stranded in wartime Japan who worked on English-language radio programs aimed at Allied troops. After Japan’s surrender she was arrested by U.S. occupation authorities and held for about a year before being released; public pressure later revived the case, and she was brought to the United States in 1948 to face trial. In 1949 a federal jury convicted her on one count of treason; she received a ten-year sentence and a $10,000 fine, served more than six years in federal custody (including at a women’s reformatory in West Virginia), and was released in 1956. In 1977, Gerald Ford granted her a full pardon, restoring her citizenship.
Case
Federal Reformatory for Women, Alderson
