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Contents 1 Fonda 2 Conspiracy theory 3 Person vs. role 4 See Also section 5 Tokyo Rose, the band 6 Movies / documentary 7 More actresses? 8 Tokyo Rose the Drink

[edit] Fonda

Comment: Unless Wikipedia is interested in being accused of more unprofessional bias, it might be worth considering the removal of Jane Fonda's name from this article. Jane Fonda was a peace activist, not a propaganda radio announcer, and is not an approprate link in this article. I open this up for discussion... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.243.1.102 (talk • contribs) 01:25, 17 December 2005

Couldn't agree more. I'm removing Fonda here and at Hanoi Hannah. 68.161.30.236 02:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Conspiracy theory

Uncited text I removed from the article. Gamaliel 18:05, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Some conspiracy theorists have suggested[citation needed] that aviatrix Amelia Earhart was forced to make propaganda broadcasts after her disappearance in 1937, based on the possibility that Earhart's plane went down in the South Pacific Mandate area, which was under Japanese Navy administration before World War II.

[edit] Person vs. role

I was tidying up these pages and there is an issue with confusing the entry of Tokyo Rose with the Iva Toguri D'Aquino, the woman who was tried as "Tokyo Rose." My suggestion is that the Tokyo Rose page should be about the figure of Tokyo Rose (there was no real person) and that a better biography of Iva Toguri D'Aquino be completed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Salishsea (talk • contribs) 19:00, 12 July 2005

NPR All Things Considered reported, in the last quarter hour of their 2-hr feed today, that

1. witnesses at her trial later admitted they perjured themselves in testifying she had reported ship sinkings in her broadcasts,
2. she had been talked into participating by American PoWs working on the show who said they were undermining the show's effectiveness, and
3. they promised her that they would limit her role so she need say nothing disloyal, and they delivered on that.

At [1] NPR promise, in abt 1.25 hr, on-line availability of the audio. The most valuable portion of their abstract there reads "Melissa Block talks with Ronald Yates, whose stories in The Chicago Tribune helped D'Aquino win her pardon", and Googling either

"Chicago Tribune" "Ronald Yates" "Tokyo Rose"

or

"Ronald Yates" "Tokyo Rose"

gave the same three hits, with abstracts of potential interest.
--Jerzy•t 22:14, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Listening to Canadian Radio just now (As It Happens), they say that Iva Toguri D'Aquino never said anything treasonous, that her scripts were written by U.S. POWs, and that "Tokyo Rose" was a generic name to refer to 12 different women broadcasters. Here's a link to the show for that date. I believe this would be in part 2, but I'm not sure, it might be the tail end of part 1. Might be a very useful source for improving an article that looks basically wrong, though the NPR material, etc. above may do the same. - Jmabel | Talk 06:40, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

The entire section concerning Iva Toguri is out of date in comparison with the primary article under her name. I intend to delete all under her section but a stub and force the reader to go to her main page. I will do so on 2 Dec 2007 unless someone states their objections here. In addition, the top line of this page cites 20 female broadcasters bearing that name and the Iva Toguri article cites 12. Which number do people want, and can we cite anything to support that number? Unclesmrgol 04:22, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] See Also section

This section doesn't appear to belong here; there is a category called "Propagandists" and these entries might profitably be placed there. Otherwise, I see no reason why any of these others will shed any light on Tokyo Rose. This probably should be deleted, and similar entries removed in the other references that are linked here. These people have nothing in common except their category and there is nothing useful to be learned about each of them at the others' pages. CraigBurley 17:12, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tokyo Rose, the band

"Tokyo Rose also is the name of a band hailing from New Jersey."
"There is an emo/pop band that goes by the name Tokyo Rose"

Are these references to the same band? PBuG 13:29, 15 October 2006 (CST)

[edit] Movies / documentary

I changed "a movie and a documentary" to "two movies and a documentary", since there appears to be two movies right underneath it. I dunno if they actually exist. --Staos 23:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More actresses?

Excuse teh term 'actresses' Only thing I could think of.

We have listed one actress who did the broadcasts but mention that there were at least 20 of them. Anyone have any more? Might be of interest.

[edit] Tokyo Rose the Drink

1 Part Melon Liquor / 1 Part Grey Goose Vodka / 1 Part Sake. Shaken in a shaker with crushed ice and served in a cocktail glass with a flower garnish.
Drink was first created in 1986 in a Dallas Texas nightclub called The Starck Club by a bar tended by the name of Scott Mertz —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.177.144.217 (talk) 00:47, 2 April 2008 (UTC)