Fan Casting Iva Toguri D'Aquino in Actors by Historical Figures They've Played

Iva Toguri D'Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American citizen visiting Japan when World War II began. Unable to return to the United States, she risked her life smuggling food to American service men held in prisoner of war camps. The Japanese authorities forced Toguri to work as a disc jockey and radio personality on English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II on the Zero Hour radio show. Toguri refused to broadcast anti-American propaganda, and tried to make a farce of the broadcasts. Toguri called herself "Orphan Annie", but she quickly became inaccurately identified with the name "Tokyo Rose", coined by Allied soldiers and which predated her broadcasts. "Tokyo Rose" was broadly painted as a dangerous femme fatale despite Iva's loyalty to the United States. She is the only American citizen to have been both accused of treason and granted a pardon for it.