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Native name
  
長谷川テル

Nationality
  
Japanese


Name
  
Teru Hasegawa

Died
  
January 14, 1947, Taiwan

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Full Name
  
Hasegawa Teruko (長谷川照子)

Born
  
March 7, 1912 (
1912-03-07
)

Other names
  
“Verda Majo” (Green May)

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).

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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.

References

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