Iva Toguri D'Aquino

Iva Toguri D’Aquino was born on Independence Day, July fourth in 1916. She was born in Los Angeles, California to parents Jun Toguri and Fumi Toguri. Her parents heavily believed in assimilation for their daughter and encouraged her to adopt American culture and customs. He discouraged teaching his children to read and write Japanese, and rarely took them to Japanese cultural gathering. When Ida graduated, she was allowed to visit her sickly aunt in Japan as a graduation gift from her parents. While she was there, Pearl Harbor took place. This caused increasing tension between the U.S and Japan, and it caused her to be stranded in Japan. Due to a paperwork problem, she missed the last returning American boat. During the beginning of stranding, the secret police went up to her and tried to force her to renounce her American citizenship and pledge her allegiance to the emperor. She refused to do this, and this was seen as an enemy alien. Due to this, she…

and Greece, and Japan in Asia and the South Pacific are one of the many examples that reveal such needs of expansion.1 This development between many worldwide conflicts over expansion and power, particularly the battle between Japan and the United States, strengthens. Events that were known as the most horrific attacks included the bombings of Pearl Harbor, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima.2 Disputes between these two countries not only affected the United States as a whole, but also affected the…