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Although the first two applications were unsuccessful, new evidence came to light, which led to the 1976 application. Ron Yates, a [[Chicago Tribune]] correspondent in Tokyo from 1974 to 1977, had been reviewing her case, since a reader's letter had informed him that "Tokyo Rose" was living in Chicago. As he read the documentation, he became increasingly aware that something did not seem right with the way the trial had been conducted. As he said in a later interview, "The evidence and the trial itself didn't seem to be done in the right way. If you take it out of the context of the time, you think, 'Why didn't anybody see this?' Well, at the time, three years after the war, 1948, there was a lot of hatred toward the Japanese. A lot of people had lost sons and mothers and fathers. You could kind of get some sense about why she was being prosecuted. But even so, even when you allow for the temper of the time, there seemed to be something wrong."  

Although the first two applications were unsuccessful, new evidence came to light, which led to the 1976 application. Ron Yates, a [[Chicago Tribune]] correspondent in Tokyo from 1974 to 1977, had been reviewing her case, since a reader's letter had informed him that "Tokyo Rose" was living in Chicago. As he read the documentation, he became increasingly aware that something did not seem right with the way the trial had been conducted. As he said in a later interview, "The evidence and the trial itself didn't seem to be done in the right way. If you take it out of the context of the time, you think, 'Why didn't anybody see this?' Well, at the time, three years after the war, 1948, there was a lot of hatred toward the Japanese. A lot of people had lost sons and mothers and fathers. You could kind of get some sense about why she was being prosecuted. But even so, even when you allow for the temper of the time, there seemed to be something wrong."  

Now based in Tokyo, Yates tracked down the two  men whose testimony had effectively sent Iva to jail. He met with Kenkichi Oki and George Mitsushio in a Tokyo bar in early 1976. After chatting generally, Yates decided to probe the "Tokyo Rose" affair, asking them, "What’s the real story behind Iva Toguri?" he recorded their response and the subsequent conversation that followed as follows in his follow-up article "Tokyo Rose: The Legend, The Woman": <ref>http://yates.ds.uiuc.edu/new/articles_books/tokyorose-2006_07_09.pdf</ref>

Now based in Tokyo, Yates tracked down the two  men whose testimony had effectively sent Iva to jail. He met with Kenkichi Oki and George Mitsushio in a Tokyo bar in early 1976. After chatting generally, Yates decided to probe the "Tokyo Rose" affair, asking them, "What’s the real story behind Iva Toguri?" He recorded their response and the subsequent conversation that followed in his follow-up article "Tokyo Rose: The Legend, The Woman": <ref>http://yates.ds.uiuc.edu/new/articles_books/tokyorose-2006_07_09.pdf</ref>

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“What do you mean?” Oki asked, in response to my question.<br>

“What do you mean?” Oki asked, in response to my question.<br>

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino passed away in Chicago on 26 September, 2006.

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino passed away in Chicago on 26 September, 2006.

It was Ron Yates, the man who helped Iva clear her name, who probably offered the best summation up Iva's life: "Her entire life was destroyed by a miscarriage of justice, and you couldn't be more American than she was."<ref>http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/quote/1860/all</ref>

It was Ron Yates, the man who helped Iva clear her name, who probably offered the best summation of Iva's life: "Her entire life was destroyed by a miscarriage of justice, and you couldn't be more American than she was."<ref>http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/quote/1860/all</ref>

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