Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kawashima, Yasuhide (1931-....)
Titre(s) : The Tokyo Rose case [Texte imprimé] : treason on trial / Yasuhide Kawashima
Publication : Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Description matérielle : xiv, 189 pages ; 22 cm
Collection : Landmark law cases & American society
Lien à la collection : Landmark law cases & American society
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index
"Iva Ikuku Toguri (1916-2006) was an American citizen, born on the 4th of July. Her
parents, first-generation Japanese Americans, embraced their new nation and raised
Iva to think, talk, and act like a patriotic American. But, despite her allegiance
to the United States, she was forced to spend most of her adult life denying that
she was a traitor or that she was World War II's infamous Tokyo Rose. When the Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor, Iva was nursing an ailing aunt in Japan. Prevented from returning
to home, she was hounded by the Japanese authorities to renounce her American citizenship,
which she refused to do. Pressured to find employment, she joined Radio Tokyo, where
she emceed brief music segments on the 'The Zero Hour' during the war's last two years.
But she was never called 'Tokyo Rose' by anyone and was but one among a dozen or so
English-speaking females heard on Japanese airwaves. After the war, she was tried
and convicted for treason, despite the lack of evidence and a reluctant jury, then
stripped of her citizenship and sent to prison. When Iva died in 2006, obituaries
continued to identify her as the traitorous Tokyo Rose, even though she had received
a presidential pardon and had had her citizenship restored several decades earlier.
Kafkaesque in the telling, her story provides a harsh reminder that the law does not
always render justice"--Page [4] of cover
Sujet(s) : Toguri d'Aquino, Iva Ikuko (1916-2006) -- Procès
Trahison -- Procès -- Japon -- 1945-1970
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Collaborateurs -- Japon
Indice(s) Dewey :
345.73 (23e éd.) = Droit pénal - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780700619047. - ISBN 0700619046. - ISBN 9780700619054. - ISBN 0700619054
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455592672
Notice n° :
FRBNF45559267
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Born on the Fourth of July ; "Aunt Shizu is sick" ; A dozen roses ; The American
paparazzi ; The Attorney General's abrupt decision ; Assembling witnesses and the
jury selection ; The prosecution's case ; The defense rebuttal ; The verdict and
the sentence ; Appeals, threat of deportation, and pardon.
