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Beate Sirota Gordon

Born

in Vienna, Austria

October 25, 1923

Died

December 30, 2012

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Beate Sirota Gordon (bay-AH-tay; October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian-born American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. She was the former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society and the Asia Society, and was one of the last surviving members of the team that worked under Douglas MacArthur to write the Constitution of Japan after World War II. ...more

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	The Only Woman in the Room really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1945年のクリスマス―日本国憲法に「男女平等」を書いた女性の自伝 by Beate Sirota Gordon, Beate Sirota Gordon (原著), 平岡磨紀子 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le dernier bateau pour Yokohama : Les Sirota : une odyssée politique et culturelle by Michel Wasserman, Nassrine Azimi, Beate Sirota Gordon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beate Sirota Gordon Was drafting the draft constitution Art Director 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender equality in the Constitution drafting secret story (Iwanami booklet (No.400)) (1996) ISBN: 4000033409 [Japanese Import] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ベアテさんのしあわせのつかみかた 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The poll is for a Non-Fiction group read book about Japan. Authors do not need to be Japanese to have been qualified for the nominations

Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld by Junichi Saga

6 votes 37.5%

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City by Jorge Almazán

3 votes 18.8%

The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island by Amy Chavez

2 votes 12.5%

Lonely Planet Journeys: Lost Japan by Alex Kerr

2 votes 12.5%

Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy by Reiner H. Hesselink

1 vote 6.3%

Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan (Volume 63) by William Wayne Farris

1 vote 6.3%

Cha-No-Yu: Japanese Tea Ceremony by A.L. Sadler

1 vote 6.3%

The Only Woman in the Room Beate Sirota Gordon

0 votes 0.0%

Modern Japanese Diaries by Donald Keene

0 votes 0.0%

Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa

0 votes 0.0%

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by G.G. Rowley

0 votes 0.0%

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

0 votes 0.0%

Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 by Michael A. Barnhart

0 votes 0.0%

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