British journalist who broke Nazi invasion of Poland dies aged 105 - January 11, 2017

A)
Clare Hollingworth, the British war correspondent who discovered Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939 and reported the story as an exclusive, died in Hong Kong on the 10th. She was 105 years old.

Born in Leicestershire, England, in 1911, Hollingworth was a rookie reporter for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph when she got his "scoop of the century."

While driving from Poland to Germany, he noticed German troops gathering along the Polish border. She wrote an article dated August 29, 1939, titled "1,000 Tanks Assembled at Polish Border, 10 Divisions on Hold for Blitzkrieg." As was the custom for newspapers then, the article was unsigned.

German tanks crossed the border into Poland three days later, another scoop for Hollingworth.

B)
German tanks invaded Poland in 1939. British authorities initially did not believe that German troops had crossed the border.

During the war, she reported from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, and Persia. After the war, she continued to report from the battlefields of Algeria, the Middle East, and Vietnam. In Vietnam, she tried whenever possible to sneak away from the eyes of U.S. military spokespeople and interview the Vietnamese people directly.

C)
In 1963, while working at the Beirut branch of the British newspaper The Guardian, following the disappearance of British intelligence agent Kim Philby, she became convinced that Philby was the "third man" in the Soviet double agent group, along with Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean.

After investigating, she discovered that Philby had boarded a ship bound for the Soviet Union and wrote an exclusive story entitled "Philby defected to the Soviet Union." However, fearing a defamation lawsuit, the newspaper withheld the story for three months, and the exclusive story went to the Daily Express.

D)
Before becoming a journalist, Hollingworth helped save many people in Poland from the Nazi invasion by providing them with British visas.

Margo Staniya, who Ms Hollingworth helped, said after hearing of her death that she was "an incredible woman who was in the right place at the right time".

She was married twice and became The Telegraph's first Beijing correspondent in 1973 before retiring in 1981. She spent nearly 40 years in Hong Kong until her death.

When asked where she would go next if the phone rang for an interview, Hollingworth replied, "The first thing I'd do is look in the newspaper and ask, 'Where's the most dangerous place?' Because that would make a good story."

British journalist who broke Nazi invasion of Poland dies aged 105 - January 11, 2017

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Clare Hollingworth obituary

A fearless war correspondent who established her reputation with a brilliant scoop about the outbreak of the Second World War
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/10/clare-hollingworth-obituary

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Hani Motoko - Wikipedia

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Hani Motoko (Japanese: 羽仁もと子, 1873 - 1957) is considered to be Japan's first female journalist.

Born into a former samurai family, Hani was born as Matsuoka Motoko in Aomori Prefecture and was baptized a Christian in 1890. She was educated at Tokyo First Higher Women's School and then at the Meiji Women's Christian School. After leaving school in 1892, she taught school in Hachinohe and Morioka. Her marriage in 1895 did not work out, so she moved to Tokyo, where she worked as a maid for a female doctor. She joined Hochi Shinbun in 1897, working first as a copy editor and later becoming a reporter. In 1901, she married a co-worker, Hani Yoshikazu. Together, they founded a new magazine called Fujin no Tomo (Women's Friend) in 1908. An association of readers of that magazine was established in 1930 and still exists as of 1999. In 1921, the couple founded a private school for girls, Jiyu Gakuen. She wrote an autobiography in 1928 titled Speaking of Myself.

The life of our founders, Motoko and Yoshikazu Hani

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Hachinohe's Superwoman: 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Motoko Hani | News from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture

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One-minute reading: Hani Motoko's "Now, Born, a Green Child."

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"Now, Born, a Green Child" is an essay by Hani Motoko, a Japanese educator and writer. This work celebrates the birth of a new life and depicts hope and joy for its future. Hani Motoko's warm writing and deep insight shine in this work.

Hani Motoko (1873-1957) was an educator from Tokyo and is known as one of the founders of Jiyu Gakuen. She spread the idea of respecting children's individuality and autonomy through education and influenced many people. Hani Motoko's writings are full of educational ideals and love for humanity and are still read by many readers today.

In this one-minute reading, you can touch on Hani Motoko's thoughts and the emotions behind them through "Now, Born, a Green Child" by Hani Motoko. Please also pay attention to the background of the work and Hani Motoko's life.

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1. What do you think is the difference between tough women from the postwar era and women today?
Why don't we try to change politics and the system as proactively as women did?

2. In Japanese society, women rarely become company presidents or politicians. However, although women's status is not high, they often feel respected by men.

There seems to be a tolerance for full-time housewives, couples without children, and people who do not get married.
Do women need to work like men?

3. In Japanese society, men can take childcare leave, women can take maternity leave for more than a year, and national holidays and summer vacations are easy to take.
Working from home and flextime have made it possible to achieve an excellent work-life balance.

However, the energy to develop something new or change systems and politics has been lost.

Is it possible to compete with the technological capabilities of the United States and China only if we work hard?
What do you think it would take to build a truly balanced country?

I think that we need to bring out the potential of younger people and women.
Right now, for some reason, older men are getting a lot of jobs and positions.
In another 5 or 10 years, they will be gone.

At that point, I think it will be too late for us to start anything.
We need to start preparing to create a truly productive and innovative society where it is easy to work.

The Internet connects us all, and we can share information and thoughts with each other at any time.

For example, aren't children's feelings the same worldwide?
They can easily transcend differences in country, religion, and language.

How can we create a world for the many ordinary citizens rather than the 1% of the super-rich who are a privileged class?

What can we do to end wars and conflicts, prepare for food crises and climate change, and coexist with humans, animals, and plants?

The answer has not yet been found, but isn't "make friends" essential?
We can help each other, respect each other, and share the precious present.