Hatsu Ando (, 20 January 1912 – 4 December 1985) was a Japanese politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.Otsuka Kiyoe (2008) Japanese Women's Legislative and Administrative Reforms in the Postwar Era Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
Biography Hatsu Sen was born in Nirayama in 1912. She graduated from a teacher training college in Shizuoka Prefecture and taught at a in Omimura until marrying Hideo Ando. She became a member of the New Japan Cultural Association and served as president of the Shin-Etsu Industrial Company. The couple moved to Nagano Prefecture during World War II.
In 1946 Ando contested the Nagano constituency in the general elections as a candidate of the Peace Party, and was elected to the House of Representatives.Analysis of the 1946 Japanese General Election United States Department of State, 1946, p5 After being elected, she joined the National Cooperative Party. She lost her seat in the 1947 elections.
Ando subsequently lived in the suburbs of Tokyo until her death in 1985.Mitsuyo Iwao (1999) 新しき明日の来るを信ず－はじめての女性代議士たち, pp199–201
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