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	The Story of Beate Sirota
		Beate Sirota Gordon is an American woman who has become a Japanese icon. A young American woman found herself writing the Japanese Constitution.
		The Japan that young Beate saw was mainly the exotic side as extolled in travelogues.
		Beate was only 22 years old but as the only woman on the team, she found herself as the obvious choice to write one particular section.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln275/Sirota.htm (2350 words)

	Beate Sirota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sirota's family later emigrated to Japan, where Leo Sirota taught at the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo.
		Beate Sirota Gordon played an important role in writing into the Constitution legal equality for women in Japan.
		Beate Sirota currently resides in New York City and has many a few appearances in middle and high schools giving lectures about her life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beate_Sirota (248 words)

	Arbiter Liner Notes
		Sirota left more than an hour of commercial recordings made in England around 1924-26 for the Homochord company and half an hour of performances for Japanese Columbia, recorded in the 1930's.
		One day, Beate Sirota Gordon, the pianist's daughter, phoned to mention that she might have a tape or two from Sirota's weekly radio recitals in St. Louis, broadcast live from 1951 until 1962, in which he covered much of the piano's literature.
		For Sirota, these composers were living contemporaries whose works he played in a manner characteristic of their Russia - a style that was soon transformed when the Communist era began to influence performance styles.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /notes/110notes.html (1887 words)

	About Beate Sirota Gordon « The Gift from Beate
		In 1998, Beate Sirota Gordon, former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society, was decorated by the Japanese Government for her long-term service to Japanese culture.
		With regard to choice of spouse, property rights, inheritance, choice of domicile, divorce and other matters pertaining to marriage and the family, laws shall be enacted from the standpoint of individual dignity and the essential equalities of the sexes.
		Beate Gordon was born in Vienna in 1924, the daughter of renowned Russian pianist Leo Sirota.
	thegiftfrombeate.wordpress.com /aboutbeate-sirota-gordon (624 words)

	Beate Sirota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		'''Beate Sirota Gordon''' (born in Vienna in 1924) was a member of a team that worked for Douglas MacArthur on the Constitution of Japan.
		She was the only child of pianist Leo Sirota, a Russian Jew who had fled war-torn Russia and settled in Vienna, Austria.
		Beate Sirota Gordon played an important role in bringing in equality for women into Japan in its Constitution.
	beate-sirota.iqnaut.net (143 words)

	The Only Woman in the Room
		idden in this matter-of-fact autobiography is the story of an erudite and versatile woman, the daughter of the Russian pianist Leo Sirota, who, after admitting to herself that she lacked the talent to perform, shaped her knowledge of languages and culture into an art-filled career.
		Beate Sirota Gordon's memoir begins on Christmas Eve, 1945, when she landed in occupied Japan.
		Born in Vienna of Russian Jewish parents, she had attended a German school in Japan and was returning to work as a research expert for the State Department and to search for her family.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/08/23/bib/980823.rv111110.html (193 words)

	Beate Sirota Gordon (1924 - )
		Gordon grew up in Tokyo and became, as she notes, "part Japanese." The Sirota family house in Tokyo was a salon of artists from super-traditional Kabuki actors, modern dancers, and European musicians to Japanese painters and sculptors.
		In 1938 Sirota's parents sent her to Mills College in California to study languages because it was the closest to Japan and a woman's college, therefore safe for a sixteen-year-old girl.
		Concerned about her parents, Sirota was anxious to return to Japan as soon as the war ended.
	www.pinn.net /~sunshine/whm2001/gordon.html (2026 words)

	Arbiter Liner Notes
		An idyllic life in Japan ended when, in 1943, during the Second World War, Sirota and his wife were evacuated to Karuizawa, a remote mountain village and suffered privations: unbeknownst to them, their Tokyo home had been destroyed in a bombing.
		In 1946 the Sirotas moved to the United States, settling in St. Louis where he succeeded the Busoni pupil Gottfried Galston on the piano faculty of the St. Louis Institute of Music.
		For his formal Viennese debut, Sirota played Liszt's Don Juan Fantasy was played by Sirota in a 2-piano version of the score with his teacher Busoni, who later led his pupil in the Viennese premiere of the Busoni Piano Concerto.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /notes/123notes.html (1453 words)

	Amazon.com: The Only Woman in the Room: Books: Beate Sirota Gordon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I first learned of Beate Sirota Gordon from a Japanese woman friend who told me she was well loved by the women of Japan.
		Sirota Gordon has a facinating tale to tell but, ultimately, its telling has little depth and skims the surface of events in her life.
		A concise, elegant autobiography by Beate Sirota Gordon, an Austrian who grew up in pre-war Japan as a child and later returned to what she very much considered her home to find her parents (music teachers who refused to abandon their Japanese students as pre war tensions mounted and were held prisoner).
	www.amazon.com /Only-Woman-Beate-Sirota-Gordon/dp/477002732X (1347 words)

	..............................: May 2004
		She is the daughter of a Russian parents, her father, Leo Sirota, was a well known pianist, and the mother was a lively housewife.
		Beate's mother generously throwing parties, that the house become one of the place to held art discussions.
		Working for Ocupation, in February 1946, Beate was chosen to be one of the team members to wrote the draft for Japanese new Constitution, since she was a woman, she was assigned to write articles about women equal rights to men, and she also asked to work on the articles about education rights for children.
	numpang-nulis.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_numpang-nulis_archive.html (3057 words)

	Portland State Office of Marketing & Communications \| News Release Archive
		Beate Sirota Gordon, author of the women's rights clauses in the postwar Constitution of Japan, presents her account of the making of this extraordinary document.
		Beate Sirota Gordon spent much of her childhood in Japan.
		At the age of 22, she was chosen by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, to draft the women's rights clause of the new constitution for the people of occupied Japan.
	www.marketing.pdx.edu /news.php?id=548 (302 words)

	Anime Online Forums - View Single Post - Women's Votes: Past & Present
		How many knew that womens rights did not exist in Japan until after WWII when Beate Sirota Gordon, the only woman on the comittee writting Japans new constitution, wrote in clauses involving discrimination, sufferage, and equal rights.
		All of the people are equal under the law and there shall be no discrimination in political, economic or social relations because of race, creed, sex, social status or family origin.
		Beate Sirota Gordon, who was only 22 at the time, is now 80 and still involved in Japan's womens movments and organizations.
	www.animeonline.net /39040-post5.html (319 words)

	UNITAR HOAP, Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific
		Sirota Gordon, a friend and supporter of UNITAR, discussed her experiences and views on the role of women and constitutions in post-conflict countries based on her personal experience with the drafting of the Japanese Constitution.
		Born in Vienna and educated in Tokyo and the United States, Beate Sirota Gordon received her bachelor of arts degree from Mills College, California.
		Sirota Gordon returned to Japan as a research expert for General MacArthur’s GHQ, the first American female civilian to reach Tokyo.
	www.unitar.org /hiroshima/roundtables/gordon.html (321 words)

	Welcome to FUNiGIRLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She was born in Vienna, Austria and was the daughter of famed Jewish Russian pianist Leo Sirota.
		Beate grew up in Japan, and heard through maids, and friends, and ladies who came to visit her mother the condition of women and their rights in Japan.
		Beate, after growing up in this culture, left at the tender age of fifteen for the United States for college where she majored in languages at Mills College in California.
	www1.funigirls.com /index.cfm?page=culture5 (2082 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Instead, his main goal lay in the strengthening of the Japanese nation as a whole by harnessing the intellectual and physical capacities of women.
		Beate Sirota Gordon, in contrast, wished vehemently to improve the daily lives of women in Japan by legislating in order to ensure respect for their rights.
		Thus in the writings of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Beate Sirota Gordon, the goals of nationalism and women's liberation merged.
	people.ucsc.edu /~myrtreia/essays/japan_women (1797 words)

	Constitution of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The articles about equality between men and women are reported to be written by Beate Sirota.
		Although the document's authors were non-Japanese, they took into account the Meiji Constitution, the demands of Japanese lawyers, and the opinions of pacifist political leaders such as Shidehara and Yoshida Shigeru.
		Beate Sirota Gordon (Blog about Beate Sirota Gordon and the documentary film "The Gift from Beate")
	www.tocatch.info /en/Japanese_Constitution.htm (3215 words)

	Gen Kanai weblog: Beate Sirota Gordon
		Beate Sirota Gordon, who was a young aide to Douglas McArthur after the war, helped to fashion critical parts of Japan's constitution, specifically in the areas of women's rights.
		Gordon writes in a recent NY Times op-ed that Japanese laws passed after the constitution was ratified restrict the heir to the throne as male.
		When I was part of the Japan-Andover Connection back in highschool we invited Beate to come speak.
	www.kanai.net /weblog/archive/2004/08/13/17h06m01s (174 words)

	A women's cause in Japan
		TOKYO In the back of a theater here, two gray-haired women perched on the edge of their seats, nodding their heads, clapping their hands silently.
		On the stage, Beate Sirota Gordon, a snowy-haired American grandmother, implored Japanese women to rise in defense of the Japanese Constitution's equal rights clause, which she said was fundamental to their rights as women.
		But during the previous 14 hours of debates, she had won the gratitude of the Japanese leaders for convincing the Americans to roll back other clauses that went against Japanese traditions.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/05/29/news/gordon.php (1017 words)

	The Writing of the Postwar Constitution and the Promulgation of Equal Rights for Men and Women in Japan - Events - ...
		Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna and lived in Tokyo until she moved to the United States in 1939 to go to Mills College.
		In less than a week, she and the other workers had written the new constitution for Japan - a code of laws that gave women constitutional equality.
		Japanese women have benefited greatly from the work of Beate Sirota Gordon.
	ieas.berkeley.edu /events/2003.02.04.html (274 words)

	参議院憲法調査会英文会議録　2000/05/02
		Beate Sirota Gordon, who was on the Subcommittee on Human Rights.　We also have Mr.
		Richard Poole, who was the Naval Ensign at the time, and who was a member of the Subcommittee on the Emperor, Treaties and Enabling Provisions, as a guest speaker.　We also invited Mr.
		Beate Sirota Gordon.　You have made various proposals for the women's rights as well as women's welfare.　In 1999, we were able to establish the basic law for a gender equal society.　Thus the status of women has been made stronger and being reinforced.　I think this represents very good progress in Japan.
	www.eda-jp.com /katudo/kenpou/000502-e.html (5376 words)

	Noon Lecture Series
		In 2006 he was a visiting professor of Japanese history at the University of Michigan, where he taught courses on modern Japan and the Japanese Empire while continuing with research on the Ansei Purge (1858-60) and the role of the A-bomb in ending the Pacific War.
		Gordon’s arrival in Japan accompanying her mother and father (the Viennese-Russian pianist) on the latter's world-wide concert tour.
		Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna and moved to Japan in 1929 as a young girl, when her father, the world-renowned pianist Leo Sirota, accepted an invitation to become a professor at the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/cjs/events/noon.html (2177 words)

	The Gift from Beate
		Information on the film “The Gift from Beate” April 19, 2006
		Article 24 of the Japanese Constitution, which sets out the equality of women and men, has provided the strongest base in support of the long and winding road over which Japanese women have travelled.
		Beate Sirota Gordon, though only 22 years old when she drafted this article of historical importance, was the only one among the drafting team who was aware of the pain of Japanese women, of how limited were their rights and how inferior were those rights to those of men.
	thegiftfrombeate.wordpress.com (170 words)

	JPRI Occasional Paper No. 27
		My sister had instructed me to get in touch with her very close friend Beate Sirota who worked in Government Section, about which I knew nothing.
		We had a pleasant dinner together - we had known each other as school-mates at ASIJ (the American School in Japan), but she had been a couple of grades ahead of me. For once, I was on my best behavior.
		Beate mentioned that Government Section (GovSec) had a vacancy in its language pool because her fiancé - Joe Gordon, whom she later married - had just returned to America, having completed his required number of service points.
	www.jpri.org /publications/occasionalpapers/op27.html (6289 words)

	The Gift From Beate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This blog is about Beate Sirota Gordon, though only 22 years old played an important role in writing into the Constitution legal equality for women in Japan.
		She was the only one among the drafting team who was aware of the pain of Japanese women, of how limited were their rights and how inferior were those rights to those of men.
		The Documentary Film "The Gift From Beate", Japan, 2004 - Japanese version, superimposed in English, 92 minutes.
	thegiftfrombeate.bleublog.ch /about (249 words)

	The Hindu : Japan divided over amending Constitution
		A Constitutional Research Panel of the Lower House was packed and met for hours, before a packed public gallery too.
		Two of the original draftees, Ms Beate Sirota Gordon and Mr.
		Their views too reflected a house divided on the issue of changing the 47-year-old document, or sticking with it.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/05/08/stories/03080005.htm (580 words)

	The Gift From Beate
		The official blog of "the Gift from Beate" have moved !!!
		The official blog of "the Gift from Beate" have moved to:
		By stephane koch, 26.4.2006 at 10:52, Published in About Beate Sirota Gordon
	thegiftfrombeate.bleublog.ch (87 words)

	Beate Sirota Gordon Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Beate Sirota Gordon Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The Only Woman in the Room is a vivid and very personal account of one woman's life in Europe, prewar Japan, and the United States.
		As the daughter of renowned Russian pianist Leo Sirota, Beate Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world of the concert tour, then settled in Japan in the 1930s.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Beate_Sirota_Gordon (214 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Japanese Culture, Politics To Blend At ECJAL Conference This Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But non-Japanese students are "more than welcome to attend the conference," said Misasha Suzuki '99, co-president of the Japan Society, who is half-Japanese herself.
		Among the scheduled speakers is Beate Sirota Gordon, the only female framer of the MacArthur Constitution--which was instituted in Japan after World War II--and a present-day activist.
		She is of Russian origin but made a mark on Japanese history when she wrote the provision that guaranteed "essential equality of the sexes" in Japan.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=94847 (411 words)

	Lessons on the Japanese Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These ideals were not reflected in the U.S. Constitution, nor necessarily embraced by conservatives within American occupation personnel.
		Beate Sirota Gordon, a young and idealistic member of the committee, has recorded her search through Japanese libraries for sample constitutions from other nations that might provide models for a progressive Japanese document.
		In its original form, Gordon’s human rights section for the Japanese constitution articulated rights far more progressive than anything in the U.S. Constitution.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/Digests/const.html (2439 words)

	Ex-GHQ member says Constitution should not be revised Japan Policy & Politics - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A former employee of the postwar General Headquarters (GHQ) who took part creating Japan's Constitution following the end of World War II opposes revising the code, arguing that maintaining its war-renouncing pledge can prevent an expansion of the ongoing U.S.-led war against terrorism.
		''The Japanese Constitution is especially important in order to prevent the war from expanding, although the U.S.-led air strikes (on Afghanistan) are against the terrorists and different from general war,'' Beate Sirota Gordon, who was involved in drafting the Constitution's civil rights section, said in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo.
		Gordon is visiting Japan from Oct. 23 to Nov. 11 to give lectures on gender equality at the invitation of women's organizations and local governments.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2001_Nov_5/ai_80631539 (534 words)

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