Episode 9/10: The Trial of Tokyo Rose

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• Part One

  • American Veterans Center, “Setting the Record Straight,” WWII Chronicles, Issue XXXIII, Winter 2005.

  • Center for Research: Allied POWs Under the Japanese,“Tokyo Bunka POW Camp, Radio Tokyo,” Roger Mansell Group.

  • Denshō,“Terminology.” 

  • Al Dopking, “None At All In Tokyo Knows Who Or Where Is ‘Tokyo Rose,” Associated Press, August 31, 1945.

  • Masayo Duus, Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific, trans. Peter Duus, (Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., distributed in the United States by Harper & Row, 1979).

  • Foreign Service Institute, Office of the Historian, “Administrative Timeline of the Department of State: 1940-1949,” United States Department of State.

  • National Archives, “Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II,” last reviewed March 22, 2024.

  • National Archives, “Passport Applications, 1795-1925,” rev. November 2014.

  • National Park Service, “A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II,” excerpted from "Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites," by Jeffrey Burton, Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, and Richard. Lord for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Publications in Anthropology no. 74 (1999), rev. July 2000.

  • National Park Service, “Terminology and the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II,” 2021.  

  • Ann Elizabeth Pfau, chapter “The Legend of Tokyo Rose,” in Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II (Online: Columbia University Press, Gutenberg-e, 2008).

  •  Ronald Yates, “Tokyo Rose ‘just a scapegoat’: husband,” Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1976.

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• Part Two

  • American Veterans Center, “Setting the Record Straight,” WWII Chronicles, Issue XXXIII, Winter 2005.

  • “Allen charge,” Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School, last updated November 2021.

  • “ArtIII.S3.C1.1 Historical Background on Treason,” Constitution Annotated, United States Congress.

  • Associated Press, “Tokyo Rose Convicted As Traitor; Federal Court Jury Apologizes,” September 30, 1949, as printed in The Troy Messenger, Troy, Alabama, September 30, 1949.

  • Associated Press, “‘Tokyo Rose’ Is Found Guilty of Treason; Appeal Planned,” September 30, 1949, as printed in The St. Louis Star and Times, St. Louis, Missouri, September 30, 1949. 

  • Associated Press, “Tokyo Rose Leaves Prison After Serving Treason Term,” January 28, 1956, as printed in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, Texas, January 29, 1956. 

  • Adam Blenford, “Death ends the myth of Tokyo Rose,” BBC News, September 28, 2006.

  • Charles Bundren, “California Abolishes an Allen Charge That Encourages a Juror to Consider Majority Opinion in Forming Individual Views on an Issue, Implies That a Case Will Have to Be Retried if the Jury Fails to Agree, or Refers to the Expense or Inconvenience of the Trial. People v. Gainer, 19 Cal. 3d 835, 566 P.2d 997, 139 Cal. Rptr. 861 (1977),” Texas Tech Law Review, Vol. 9 (1978).

  • Center for Research: Allied POWs Under the Japanese,“Tokyo Bunka POW Camp, Radio Tokyo,” Roger Mansell Group.

  • Paul T. Crane and Deborah Pearlstein, “Interpretation & Debate: Treason Clause,” National Constitution Center, 2024.

  • Constitution of the United States of America, Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1.

  • Tom DeWolfe to Raymond P. Whearty, memorandum, “Subject: Iva Toguri,” May 25, 1948, from the collection of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

  • Masayo Duus, Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific, trans. Peter Duus, (Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., distributed in the United States by Harper & Row, 1979).

  • Caleb Epperson, “The Future of the Allen Charge in the New Millennium,"Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 75, Number 1 (May 2022).

  • “Facts and Case Summary – Batson v. Kentucky,” United States Courts.

  • Documents relating to the pardon of Iva Toguri D’Aquino from Box 4, folder “Clemency – Rose, Tokyo,” Philip Buchen Files, in the collection of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

  • Nathalie Greenfield, David Eichert, Nicholas Pulakos, and Oladoyin Olanrewaju, “Race-Based Peremptory Challenges,” Cornell University.

  • Nicholas Iovino, “Tokyo Rose: The Woman Wrongfully Convicted of Treason,” Courthouse News Service, November 18, 2020. 

  • “Iva Toguri D’Aquino and “Tokyo Rose,”” Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • Yasuhide Kawashima, The Tokyo Rose Case: Treason on Trial (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2013).

  • National Committee for Iva Toguri, Iva Toguri (d’Aquino): Victim of a Legend (San Francisco: Japanese American Citizens’ League, 1976).

  • Valerie J. Nelson, “Convicted as ‘Tokyo Rose,’ She Later Received Honors,” Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2006.

  • Clarence Petersen, “TV Today: Tokyo Rose, Now a Chicagoan, Gets to Tell Story on Air,” Chicago Tribune, November 5, 1969.

  • “‘Tokyo Rose’ Case Ends,” The New York Times, July 11, 1958.  

  • Ronald Yates, “Tokyo Rose’s accusers claim U.S. forced them to lie,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1976.

  • Ronald Yates, “Tokyo Rose ‘just a scapegoat’: husband,” Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1976.