Office1: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term1: | 1946–1947 |
Constituency1: | Nagano |
Birth Date: | 20 January 1912 |
Birth Place: | Nirayama, Japan |
Hatsu Ando (ja|安藤はつ, 20 January 1912 – 4 December 1985) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.[1]
Hatsu Sen was born in Nirayama in 1912. She graduated from a teacher training college in Shizuoka Prefecture and taught at a in Omimura until marrying Hideo Ando. She became a member of the New Japan Cultural Association and served as president of the Shin-Etsu Industrial Company. The couple moved to Nagano Prefecture during World War II.
In 1946 Ando contested the Nagano constituency in the general elections as a candidate of the Peace Party, and was elected to the House of Representatives.[2] After being elected, she joined the National Cooperative Party. She lost her seat in the 1947 elections.
Ando subsequently lived in the suburbs of Tokyo until her death in 1985.[3]