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Encyclopedia > Beate Sirota

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 born to a Russian pianist. She spent 10 years of her childhood in Japan.




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Beate Sirota at AllExperts (289 words)
Beate Sirota Gordon (born in Vienna, October 25, 1923 –), former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society, was a member of the team that worked for Douglas MacArthur on the Constitution of Japan.
She was the only child of pianist Leo Sirota, a Ukrainian Jew who had fled war-torn Russia and settled in Vienna, Austria.
Beate Sirota curently resides in New York City and has many a few appearances in middle and high schools giving lectures about her life.
The Story of Beate Sirota (2350 words)
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.
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