The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir Of Japan, Human Rights, And The Arts

by Beate Sirota Gordon (Author), Geoffrey Paul Gordon (Contributor), John W. Dower (Author), Nicole A. Gordon (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2014

  $18.17

  Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna, but in 1929 her family moved to Japan so that her father, a noted pianist, could teach, and she grew up speaking German, English, and Japanese. In 1946, at age twenty-two, she helped to draft the new postwar Japanese constitution. This title chronicles the unlikely string of events that led her to that role.