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Beate Sirota Gordon: An American to whom Japan remains indebted

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Roger Pulvers
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Beate Sirota Gordon passed away on Dec. 30, 2012

In 1946, when Article 24 of the Japanese Constitution was being written — and finding herself to be “the only woman in the room,” as she put it with inveterate modesty in her memoir titled in those words — she played a key role in formulating that article which established full rights for women in all matters dealing with marriage and family.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , January 2013 , e1
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