During WWII, a young Japanese woman took enormous risks to resist and defy her country's descent into fascism by moving to China, writing leftist essays and airing radio shows. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/05/20/books/teru-hasegawa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #teruhasegawa #esperanto #adamkuplowsky #china #chinajapanrelations #wwii #showa
A window into the mind of Esperantist and political activist Teru Hasegawa

During WWII, a young Japanese woman resisted her country's descent into fascism by writing leftist essays, now collected and translated in 'Whispers of a Storm.'

The Japan Times