Tokyo Rose
(b. July 4, 1916) Radio Tokyo broadcaster during World War II.
In October 1945, General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters arrested Iva Ikuko Toguri d'Aquino, a program ...
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Tokyo Rose
During the fight with Japan in World War II, Allied (mostly American) fighting men in the Pacific were assailed with Japanese radio propaganda broadcast from radio stations throughout the J...
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Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino was born on July 4, 1916, in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Japanese immigrants, Toguri was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood and taught to speak English at ...
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The U.S. dollar fell in the upper 110 yen zone Monday morning in
Tokyo as raucous OPEC debate about the weakened dollar sparked fear
of a move away from the U.S. currency.
At noon, the dol...
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Department store sales in Japan fell 0.5 percent in 2007 from
the previous year to 7.71 trillion yen on a same store basis,
extending their losing streak to 11 years, t...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - European bourses edged forward in opening trade
Wednesday in the wake of the US Federal Reserve's hefty rate cut and
after a recovery in shares in Wall Str...
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2007. There are 117 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Sept. 5, 1957, the novel "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac, was...
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Today is Saturday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2007. There are 86 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 6, 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz ...
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Tokyo stocks fell sharply Thursday with the key Nikkei index
hitting a 19-month low after Deputy Bank of Japan Governor Toshiro
Muto's lackluster outlook f...
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The supply of condominiums in Tokyo and neighboring areas in
2007 tumbled over 18 percent from the previous year, the steepest
fall since 1991, partly because rising sales...
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 26, the 269th day of 2007. There are 96 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1957, the musical play "West Side Story," a retell...
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Tokyo stocks nosedived Tuesday morning with the key Nikkei index
falling below the 13,000 line for the first time since October 2005
on panic over global repercussions ...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - The rebound in European shares proved
relatively short-lived Wednesday with bourses falling sharply after
European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet r...
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Tokyo Rose
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Dollar falls in upper 110 yen zone on OPEC currency debate
