title: Teru Hasegawa
text: # Teru Hasegawa
  
  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.
  
  