Beate Sirota Gordon was the only woman in the room when Article 24 of the Constitution of Japan was negotiated in 1946. Guaranteeing equality before the law, it would become the defining pillar of women’s rights in modern Japan. Through a confluence of chance events, Beate, born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1923, found herself at the drafting table representing the American government at the young age of 22.
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[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 2 points 1.7 yearsAug 19, 2023 15:49:17 ago (+2/-0)*
"As a fluent Japanese speaker, she took a job as a translator with the American Office of War Information. In 1945, with the end of the war, she returned to Japan to search for her family through the only means possible for a civilian at the time: as an interpreter for General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan."
And there it is. Suck up enemies.
JD Salinger was one of the Richie Boys during the Nuremberg trials. They spoke German, Yiddish and English and both interrogated AND translated for the German prisoners.
The fucking assholes who trust any one of them have been our problem for far too long.
[ + ] RepublicanNerd
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[ + ] prototype
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