Teru Hasegawa

Japanese pacifist, feminist and antifascist
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IntroJapanese pacifist, feminist and antifascist
A.K.A.Teru Hasegawa Hasegawa Teruko
A.K.A.Teru Hasegawa Hasegawa Teruko
PlacesJapan
wasEsperantist Pacifist
Work fieldActivism Literature
Gender
Female
Birth7 May 1912, Ōtsuki
Death14 January 1947 (aged 34 years)
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Biography

Teru Hasegawa (長谷川テル, Hasegawa Teru) (7 March 1912 – 14 January 1947) was a Japanese esperantist, also known by her Esperanto pen name Verda Majo (green May).

Life

Teru Hasegawa was born Hasegawa Teruko (長谷川照子) in 1912 as the second of three children. In 1929 she enrolled at the Women’s College of Education in Nara prefecture. She became acquainted to leftist literary circles, and Esperantist circles. She married Liu Ren, who was from Manchuria, in 1936. In April 1937 she went to China. She joined the Chinese resistance to Japan, where she made broadcasts aimed at the Japanese Army.

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