Verda Majo

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

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.