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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.
During World War II, while her parents remained in Japan under secret service surveillance Gordon lived alone in the United States, monitoring Tokyo Radio in five languages for the government and later writing radio propaganda.
She recounts her dramatic reunion with her parents in Tokyo, where she worked in General MacArthur's headquarters, and evokes the postwar suffering in defeated Japan. Her intimate description of helping draft the women's rights section of Japan's new constitution is an astonishing record of history in the making.
On returning to the States in 1947, Mrs. Gordon became a cultural impresario, bringing artists, dancers, writers, and musicians from all over to the United States. Her adventures in search of performing artists in such remote and exotic places as Mongolia, Tibet, India, and Indonesia make for hilarious and sometimes hair-raising anecdotes.
The Only Woman in the Room can be appreciated on many levels -- armchair travelers, feminists, history buffs, and readers who appreciate a well-written memoir will all find Beate Gordon's extraordinary life a riveting read.
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This engaging, modest account recalls the life and times of a woman who made significant contributions to both Japanese and American cultures, first as an advocate for civil rights clauses in the postwar Japanese constitution, later as a promoter of Asian-American amity through the arts for the Japan Society and the Asia Society. A daughter of internationally known pianist Leo Sirota, a Russian-Jewish emigre who settled first in Vienna, where the author was born, and then, with the shadow of Hitler looming, emigrated to Japan, where Sirota taught at the Imperial Academy of Music in Tokyo. There Gordon grew up and became, as she notes, "part Japanese." After attending college in California and working part-time monitoring Japanese broadcasts, she landed a research job in Japanese affairs at Time magazine after the outbreak of WWII; during the war she assumed a position on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's occupation staff, where she participated in the drafting of the new constitution, with particular attention to women's rights. Noting that she was frequently "the only woman in the room" during these experiences, she offers here quietly feminist, freshly illuminating observations about the two cultures that are distinguished by a persuasive international outlook.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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まさに「アメリカの青二才たち」の起草委員会の中で唯一の女性だったベアテさんの自叙伝。 ベアテさんは戦前の日本に育ち、アメリカ留学中に太平洋戦争が勃発して帰国できなくなった。終戦後進駐軍と共に戻ってくる。日本と日本人を愛している。そんな彼女だったからこそ、憲法２４条の男女平等条項は生まれた。それだけではない、この憲法には若者達が世界の未来に向けて発信したメッセージがいくつも込められている。まさに「世界遺産」といってもいい。
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こざかしい小手先の論理で、日本国憲法９条をいじってはならない、なぜなら、平和憲法は「論理」よりも「祈り」なのだから。
まさに「アメリカの青二才たち」の起草委員会の中で唯一の女性だったベアテさんの自叙伝。 ベアテさんは戦前の日本に育ち、アメリカ留学中に太平洋戦争が勃発して帰国できなくなった。終戦後進駐軍と共に戻ってくる。日本と日本人を愛している。そんな彼女だったからこそ、憲法２４条の男女平等条項は生まれた。それだけではない、この憲法には若者達が世界の未来に向けて発信したメッセージがいくつも込められている。まさに「世界遺産」といってもいい。
２００４年秋に来日したベアテさんの講演会でのこと。ある若い女性が言った「私たちは、私たちが生まれる前の戦争に責任を負えない。でも、これからの日本に起きる戦争には私たちは責任があります」ベアテさんは、「感動しました」といって彼女の手を固く握りしめました。
こざかしい小手先の論理で、日本国憲法９条をいじってはならない、なぜなら、平和憲法は「論理」よりも「祈り」なのだから。
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Fascinating account of feminist victory in feudal Japan
1999/2/23
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Ms. Gordon, born in Vienna and educated in Japan and the United States, found herself by an accident of history in Japan at age 22 with the American Occupation Forces immediately after World War II. General MacArthur directed her and others to draft a new constitution for Japan. Drawing on European constitutions that she found in the remaining libraries in war-torn Tokyo, she wrote for Japanese women an advanced equal rights clause that Japanese women have treasured ever since. The story of how the Japanese constitution was written is extremely interesting and well-written. Readers interested in Vienna and in European social activity of the early 20th Century will also find interesting descriptions of same. Mrs. Gordon's father was a famous Russian pianist who associated with many other famous pianists of his era, such as Artur Rubinstein.
Fascinating Book on Many Levels
2010/2/18
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Beate Sirota Gordon (BSG), the author of this easy to read autobiography, had a fascinating life. Not only do you learn about her interesting talented family, but you experience WWII and the Japanese aspect of it from an unusual perspective. Of Austrian parents who moved to Japan prior to the World War, BSG was in college in the US when the war broke out. She was separated from her parents at this young age and had no idea what had happened to them for years. Because of her ingenuity and talents, especially with languages, she became part of MacArthur's team, and eventually became the person responsible for writing the women's section of the new Japanese Constitution. BSG's ideas regarding women's rights even surpassed those of the US Constitution in those times and to some extent even today. A very worthwhile book to read for any one interested in history, human endeavors and women's issues, written by The Only Woman in the Room.
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