Exhibition reveals American's role in Japan's gender equality fight

Beate Sirota Gordon, an American translator who played a major role in the formulation of the Japanese Constitution's gender equality protections, is having her post-World War II period documents archived in a project casting light on the development of women's rights.The initiative, which aims to demonstrate the role women played in the fight for gender equality in Japan, came with Gordon's alma mater, Mills College in California, agreeing to donate six boxes of documents to the National Women's Education Center, or NWEC, located in the town of Ranzan, some 60 kilometers north of central T…READ FULL ARTICLE