Photos, from left to right, of Japanese agents Ralph Townsend, Frederick Vincent Williams, and David Warren Ryder
The Japanese Committee on Trade and Information was a Japanese-run propaganda organization that was active in the United States between 1937 and 1940. In Japanese it was called the Jikyoku Iinkai (時局委員会) , literally the "Current Affairs Committee".[1]
Many of its former members and paid propagandists were tried and imprisoned in the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
^Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate - Second Session on Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States (Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1956), 724.