Walter Kaner (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walter Kaner (May 5, 1920 - June 27, 2005) was an American journalist and philanthropist.Kaner was born in New York City, one of three children of Philip and Ida Kaner. He grew up in New York City.As "Tokyo Mose" during and after World War II, Kaner aired on US Army Radio, answering Tokyo Rose's broadcasts. In Japan, his "Moshi, Moshi Ano-ne" theme song, sung to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down," was so popular with Japanese children and GIs alike that Stars and Stripes, the Army paper, called it "the Japanese occupation theme song." Elsa Maxwell's column and radio show in 1946 referred to Kaner as "the breath of home to unknown thousands of our young men when they were lonely."