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Obit: Iva Toguri aka`Tokyo Rose' @ 90

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Toguri, who received a presidential pardon in 1977, died Tuesday of complications of old age at Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital in Chicago, said Barbara Trembley, a family spokeswoman.

Trapped while visiting Japan at the start of World War II, U.S. citizen Iva Toguri became known to millions by a radio handle she never used: Tokyo Rose, the "siren of the Pacific" whose broadcasts were meant to demoralize American servicemen fighting in the Pacific theater.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-rose28sep28,1,357730.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
 
Related retro story: Mildred Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally"

(From the "Stars & Stripes")...

FRANKFURT, Aug. 20, 1948 — Wearing a second-hand black tailored slack suit and carrying a bouquet of flowers, "Axis Sally" left Rhine-Main Air Base for Washington today where she will face a grand jury treason inquiry along with "Tokyo Rose."

The 37-year-old spinster from Portland, Me., whose real name is Mildred Gillars and who broadcast over the Nazi radio to American troops during the war, is accused by the Army of attempting to promote dissension and desertion.

http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=39562&archive=true

note: Gillars died June 25, 1988
 
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