Teru Hasegawa Explained

Teru Hasegawa
Alias:	“Verda Majo” (Green May)
Native Name:	長谷川テル
Native Name Lang:	nihongo
Birth Date:	7 March 1912
Birth Place:	Japan

(7 March 1912 – 10 January 1947^[1] or 14 January 1947^[2]) was a Japanese Esperantist, also known by her Esperanto pen name Verda Majo (green May).^[3]

Life

Teru Hasegawa was born 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

• Japanese dissidence during the Shōwa period
• Japanese in the Chinese resistance to the Empire of Japan

Further reading

• Book: The Thought War Japanese Imperial Propaganda. Barak Kushner . Barak Kushner. 2006. 978-0-8248-2920-9. University of Hawai'i Press.
• Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia By Erik Esselstrom Page 139

Notes and References

1. Web site: Verda Majo – A Sincere Friend Dedicated to China. China.org.cn . 2005-11-18.
2. Web site: Hasegawa Teru. Nihon jinmei daijiten+Plus. Kōdansha. 11 June 2014. Japanese.
3. Web site: Hasegawa Teru Alias Verda Majo (1912-1947): A Japanese woman esperantist in the Chinese anti-Japanese war of resistance. Gotelind Müller . 2013. University of Heidelberg.