Teru Hasegawa
{{short description|Japanese, esperantist, antifascist (1912-1947)}}
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| name = Teru Hasegawa
| alias = “Verda Majo” (Green May)
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| native_name = 長谷川テル
| native_name_lang = nihongo
| birth_name = {{Nihongo|Hasegawa Teruko
|長谷川照子}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|03|07}}
| birth_place = Japan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|01|14|1912|03|07}}
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{{Nihongo|Teru Hasegawa|長谷川テル|Hasegawa Teru}} (7 March 1912 – 10 January 1947{{cite web|url=http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/149180.htm|title=Verda Majo – A Sincere Friend Dedicated to China|website=China.org.cn |date=2005-11-18}} or 14 January 1947{{cite web|title=Hasegawa Teru|url=http://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB|website=Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus|publisher=Kōdansha|accessdate=11 June 2014|language=Japanese}}) was a Japanese Esperantist, also known by her Esperanto pen name Verda Majo (green May).{{cite web|url=http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15424/1/Hasegawa%20englisch.pdf |title=Hasegawa Teru Alias Verda Majo (1912-1947): A Japanese woman esperantist in the Chinese anti-Japanese war of resistance|author=Gotelind Müller |date=2013|publisher=University of Heidelberg}}
Life
Teru Hasegawa was born {{Nihongo|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.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|title=The Thought War Japanese Imperial Propaganda|author1-link=Barak Kushner |author=Barak Kushner|date=2006|isbn=978-0-8248-2920-9|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press}}
- Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia By Erik Esselstrom Page 139
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- {{Wikisourcelang-inline|eo|Aŭtoro:Verda Majo}} {{in lang|eo}}
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Category:Japanese Esperantists