As usual, Mike shouted as soon as he entered the door, "Tony, I beg you to come this time on behalf of all our brothers stationed in Japan, you have to help with this favor anyway." ”

Tang Ning was a little amused when he heard it, and replied casually: "What's the matter, let you be raised so high, and use all the brothers to press me, there are more than 100,000 troops stationed in Japan, I don't believe you know everything." ”

Mike explained, "Hey, you don't want to know what I do, even if I haven't seen it, but all the munitions that everyone eats and use are handled by me, so I barely know them all." Okay, seriously, I'm really not here on my own behalf this time, I'm coming to you with a lot of people's instructions, so you'll have to help anyway. ”

It was rare to see Mike's serious expression, and Tang Ning asked curiously: "What the hell is going on, so serious." Tell me first, and I'll see if I can help. ”

Mike hesitated for a moment and asked, "You know Tokyo Rose, right?" Not long ago, she was arrested by the authorities for treason, we are looking for your help to go to the country to dredge up and rescue her, don't you know the eldest young master of the Du Pont family, he must have a way. ”

Speaking of this Tokyo Rose, Downing really knew it, but the way he knew it was completely different from Mike's. Tokyo Rose is a nickname given by the U.S. military to a female announcer at Radio Tokyo during World War II. At that time, the Japanese army attempted to conduct psychological warfare with radio, using female announcers to send broadcasts to US troops in the Pacific, in an attempt to arouse the nostalgia of the US military and arouse their resentment against their superiors. However, instead of disintegrating the U.S. military, such broadcasts became popular for their American pop music. In a survey in the United States after the end of the war, it was found that there may have been between 4 and 20 female announcers in charge of broadcasting at that time, but the most famous and recognized representative of Tokyo Rose was Ikuko Toguri, a Japanese-American. Her experience is a legendary tale of heart-wrenching.

Had it not been for a trip to Japan in the summer of 1941, Ikuko Toguri would probably have grown up to be a hard, simple and happy Japanese-American girl. But fate just made her collide with the Pacific War, like a bird hitting an airplane, and pouring blood mold - the individual was swept into the whirlpool of the times in the deep current, and she didn't have time to call for help. He has been whirlpooled and cannot be escaped.

As a first-generation Japanese-American citizen born in the United States, the summer of 1941 was the first time Ikuko Toguri set foot on Japanese soil. Then. She had just graduated from junior college for a few weeks, and her mother was not in good health and could not return to her hometown in person. I went to Japan alone to visit my aunt, who was seriously ill.

She could never have imagined that the island of Japan would become a prison for prison birds.

War broke out, very suddenly, like the earthquakes that often occur in that island nation. When Ikuko Toguri came back to her senses, she found that it was not so easy for her to return to the United States.

In Japan, she lacks a sense of belonging. Is she American or Japanese? She has an Asian face, and genetically she is indeed a descendant of the Japanese. However, since she was born in 1916, she has been an American citizen, and she received an American-style education. She lives in a white ghetto. Her neighbors are all white Americans, and she speaks fluent English, but she understands very little Japanese, which is her mother tongue. She is a yellow-skinned white banana. However, at a time when the United States and Japan were at war, Ikuko Toguri, who happened to be in Japan, inevitably had to face a kind of identity confusion.

Being in a "foreign country", with no money, and being treated as a foreign hostile element, Ikuko Toguri was very anxious. Her aunts and uncles were trying to protect themselves. Under the pressure of his neighbors, he also had to put aside his "overseas relations". They demanded that Ikuko Toguri leave. The so-called "relatives" are particularly incapable of standing up to the test at a time when their interests are at stake.

War is like a tsunami. Sweep everything and show no mercy to anyone. Twenty-five years old was originally an age to enjoy the good youth. If she were in the United States, it would be likely that Ikuko Toguri would have already had her first job, perhaps as a helper for the family's grocery store, or perhaps in something related to the zoology major she had studied for several years. She will use her own money to buy her favorite things, lipsticks, hair clips, beautiful clothes...... She may also have a boyfriend of her own, go on a weekend date, talk on the phone, talk about a young and sweet love, and imagine the future.

But the war shattered all dreams, and the cruel reality was that she was trapped in Japan, in a Japanese prison, living a hungry and full life. But even in prison, she seems to have a crush on the United States — she has a strong identity, she always sees herself as a standard American, a yellow-skinned American, she demands that prison officials keep her American citizens together, and she needs to dilute her inner loneliness by fitting into a small group. Japanese officials agreed to her. But in exchange, she had to work as an announcer at the Japan Broadcasting Station. There is an English-language show called "Midnight".

Ikuko Toguri began broadcasting in the midnight shortwave frequency under the name "Orphan Ann". Trendy American pop, sweet female voices, and programs by English-speaking female announcers on Japanese radio, including "Midnight Hour" by Ikuko Toguri, soon opened up the market among U.S. Navy soldiers. The gentle female voice lit up the dark island night of the "Lonely Sergeant Club".

Even though Ikuko Toguri was willing to keep a low profile, the U.S. Navy began to insist on calling these delicate Japanese female announcers "Tokyo Rose", and later, the name became almost synonymous with Japanese female announcers. It is said that there were as many as 12 female announcers on Japanese radio at that time, most of whom spoke English, and most of them had renounced their American citizenship during the war.

Only Ikuko Toguri held her ground. She has always been reluctant to give up her American citizenship, but the irony of history is that when the war ended, it was Ikuko Toguri who chose to be "loyal" and became the only person in the "Tokyo Rose" to be arrested by the US government.

As a representative of the "Tokyo Rose", Ikuko Toguri has always denied that she has done anti-American propaganda for Japanese radio. Even after her arrest, she insisted that she had always broadcast in a covertly satirical tone during her unavoidable work for Japanese radio in order to sabotage Japan's wartime cultural propaganda. Moreover, as an American, she helped American prisoners of war find ways to get food, medicine, and clothing, and whenever she had time, she would even visit prisoners of war in their places of detention, so that they could have hope in their hearts and continue to hold on.

The U.S. government, however, did not believe Ikuko Toguri. After the war, the Americans landed in Japan, where they held her for 12 months, and finally acquitted her in the fall of 1946 after exhausting all means and failing to find evidence to convict her. (To be continued.) )

PS: This is true!