BY DAISUKE NAKAI CORRESPONDENT
Beate Sirota Gordon (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Beate Sirota Gordon at the time of her work on Japan's postwar Constitution (Photo provided by her family)
NEW YORK -- Beate Sirota Gordon, a member of Japan's occupation authorities who included a clause in the Constitution providing equal rights for women, died on Dec. 30. She was 89.