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Chicago: Iva Toguri D’Aquino, the American woman popularly known as Tokyo Rose who was convicted and later cleared of making propaganda radio broadcasts for the Japanese during the Second World War, has died in Chicago of natural causes, aged 90.
She was convicted in 1949.
D’Aquino was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.
She was released three years early in 1956, and successfully fought government attempts to deport her.
In 1977 she was acquitted by the then President, Gerald Ford.
Justin McCurry
