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{{Short description|Austrian and American activist (1923β2012)}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox person |name = Beate Sirota Gordon |image = Beate Sirota Gordon.jpg |image_size = 237px |caption = Gordon at the Japan Society in 2011 |birth_name = Beate Sirota |birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|10|25}} |birth_place = Vienna, [[First Austrian Republic|Austria]] |death_date = {{nowrap|{{Death date and age|2012|12|30|1923|10|25|mf=yes}}}} |death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.<ref name="NYT 20130101">{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women's Rights, Dies at 89|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/asia/beate-gordon-feminist-heroine-in-japan-dies-at-89.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=2013-01-02|date=January 1, 2013|quote=Correction: January 4, 2013}}</ref> |occupation = Performing arts presenter |spouse = {{marriage|Joseph Gordon|1948|2012|end=died}} |parents = {{Unbulleted list | Augustine Horenstein Sirota | [[Leo Sirota]] }} |children = 2 |relatives = [[Jascha Horenstein]] (uncle) |citizenship = [[United States]]<ref name=FIH>{{cite news|last=Azimi|first=Nassrine|title=Constitutionally Sound|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/global/the-Japanese-constitution.html?ref=global-home&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=2013-01-01|date=December 14, 2012}}</ref> | alma_mater = [[Mills College]] | years_active = 1943β2012 | organization = {{Unbulleted list | [[Japan Society (New York)|Japan Society]] | [[Asia Society]] }} | awards = * [[American Dance Guild]] Award (1978) * Dance on Camera Festival Awards (1984, 1985) * [[Obie Award]] (1985) * [[Bessie Awards|Bessie Award]] (1990) * Honorary [[Doctor of Fine Arts]]<BR>Mills College (1991) * President's Medal<BR>[[City College of New York|CCNY]] (1992) * Avon Grand Award to Women's Award (1997) * John D. Rockefeller Award<BR>[[Asian Cultural Council]] (1997) * [[Order of the Sacred Treasure]]<BR>Gold Rays with Rosette (1998) * Ryoko Akamatsu Award (2005) * Honorary [[Doctor of Law]]<BR>Smith College (2008) * Honorary [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]]<BR>Mills College (2011) }} '''Beate Sirota Gordon''' ({{IPAc-en|b|eΙͺ|'|ΙΛ|t|eΙͺ}}; October 25, 1923 β December 30, 2012) was an Austrian and American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. Born in Vienna, Austria, she moved to the [[Empire of Japan]] in 1929 with her father, the pianist [[Leo Sirota]]. After graduating from the [[American School in Japan]], she moved to [[Oakland, California]], where she enrolled at [[Mills College]]. Being one of the few people not of Japanese descent who was fluent in Japanese, she obtained work [[United States Office of War Information|Office of War Information]] in the [[Foreign Broadcast Information Service]] of the [[Federal Communications Commission]]. Sirota Gordon returned to Japan after the end of the war, assigned as translator to [[Douglas MacArthur]], [[Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers]]. She later was recruited to be one of the writers of [[Constitution of Japan|Japan's postwar constitution]], where she played an integral role in its mandating of equality between the sexes. Following Sirota Gordon's return to the United States in 1948, she married and eventually became the performing arts director of the [[Japan Society (New York)|Japan Society]] and the [[Asia Society]]. In this role, she fomented interest in Japanese art and artists in the United States. She retired in 1991.
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